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    How to pet a chicken?

    I have an aggressive big rooster and when he attacks I grab him (off my leg!) and hold him firmly in my lap. After a few times he began to quietly carry on a happy conversation. I would stroke his big legs and feet and hackles. : ) After he is calm and wants to go I let him hop down. He looks...
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    massive egg!! *!!UPDATED PICS!!*

    Are you sure the local friendly DUCK hasn't been slipping into the nest box?
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    wild chickens

    I'm reading "Animals Make Us Human" by Temple Grandin about a variety of captive animals.. including chickens. The impression I get is hurrying animals to learn anything faster than their own pace doesn't work. They need a lot of time to look things over and decide if you warrant their trust...
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    leaping pullets

    1001.jpg My pullets??? raise their hackles and spar in mock fights... does that make them cockerels?
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    New member

    It's great to be the new egg in the nest.
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