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Quote: Yes my question IS specific...I certainly MEANT it to be speccific toward humans by chickens. Geese are known "imprinters" and will imprint i believe the first living animal as their leader if the mother is not present. At least this is what i've always been told, read, and have seen...

Quote: I think that would be an example of training, not imprinting. Completely different in my mind.

Quote: I think you've misunderstood my question...not if they "imprint" on inantimate objects or places, rather do they "imprint" as in the first living creature they see they automatically draw to it as their "leader" some say "mother".

Thanks, I don't think so either with what i'm seeing with this one chick. So...I'll just have to force him/her to accept me LOL >here chickie chickie chickie<

Do chickens expierence imprinting like other species of birds do? I have my doubts and I havent looked for the info outside of this question. I hatched my lil nigget last week and well...he/she really doesnt want anything to do with me even though i was the first living object he saw. Which...