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    How to make chicks cuddly and pettable? Feeling discouraged...

    It's a bad idea to let a chicken near your face. They instinctively peck at shiny things and people have lost eyes that way. :( Also, when it comes to birds the dominant bird roosts highest so letting a chicken sit where it's eyes are above you means that you're allowing the chicken to be...
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    How to make chicks cuddly and pettable? Feeling discouraged...

    Ludwig always stands up to watch me, but he stays calm as long as I talk to them.
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    How to make chicks cuddly and pettable? Feeling discouraged...

    If you wait until after full dark and reach in using only the red headlamp they don't generally make any attempts at escape. They can't see very well in the dark and are reluctant to try to fly off when they can't see.
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    How to make chicks cuddly and pettable? Feeling discouraged...

    A respected member here taught me to do my inspections off the roost at night. I only pick them up in the daytime for emergencies and to take "for sale" photos.
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    How to make chicks cuddly and pettable? Feeling discouraged...

    I sometimes end up standing on the Cochin's foot feathers when I'm working in the coop and just yesterday I stepped on my rooster's foot. Fortunately, the bedding was soft and rooster in question, Ludwig, is gentle and mild-tempered.
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    How to make chicks cuddly and pettable? Feeling discouraged...

    Not all chickens will ever want to be held and petted. In fact, most will never want to be held and petted. They are prey animals so that's too much like being in the jaws of a predator. But patience and food will eventually have them crowding around your ankles to the point that you can...
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