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Wow that is a cool story! I never knew wild predators could be trained like that. A wolverine sounds totally crazy, seems like there is always a risk they will attack the trainer, like the white tigers who attacked the Las Vegas magician.

that's great but these were not chicks that i hatched myself. they were feral chickens living in the wild, who encountered predators on a daily basis. if they were my own chicks then it would have been easy.

That is exactly like what I do now. BUT, for the first few days, they did not get any morning food, only one feeding when they went back into the pen. They were starving during those days but it's better than getting eaten by wild animals.

it's a 3x3x3 pen, not something a person can sit in. I did spend many days sitting next to the pens with my laptop working during the day.

How about seeing them as animals? If they were people, I would tell them to get a job and buy their own food. They are ANIMALS who depend on PEOPLE for food and shelter. Your advice ("leave them be") would mean they stay in the trees and get eaten by predators. I posted what worked for me...

Yes, if you read some of the asil threads (or get some asils yourself) then you will understand. It is possible that other gamefowl or junglefowl come close but I do not have experience with those breeds. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-breed-focus-aseel-asil.1051581/

My roosters are asils. They are more gentlemanly than your average barnyard roo. Frankly I would never keep a rooster that competes with the hens for food.

No offense but you are anthropomorphizing. Chicken brains do not have frontal cortexes and they don't crave attention the way people do.

Mine don't. If I give them treats, they pick it up and offer it to the hens. They have to really be STARVING to eat the treat themselves.

Roosters ONLY care about survival, mating, and eating, in that order. If there are hens running around the yard, they would rather chase the hens then eat a bowl of food. Put a female dog in heat next to a dog treat. Which one does your dog preffer?

I don't care if you think the falconer I talked to is wrong. He has been training raptors for over 30 years in North America and Asia so he has more experience then you. Anyways I'm not forming a "partnership" with my roosters lmao. Cock fighters do that, exercise their birds daily and measure...

Food doesn't work as positive reinforcement unless the animal is HUNGRY. anyways, my roosters are now hand-tame and nicely go back to their own pens by themselves every evening. all i have to do is close the door behind them. come back when you are an actual falconer and not just someone who...

My friend put me in touch with someone who has studied falconry and I got some good tips. Falconers basacally capture wild hawks and tame them into cage birds that hunt on command. The way to tame falcons is to deprive them of food to the point of starvation, and also have lots of noise (like a...

Right. I am not letting them out of their pens. They escape when I open the door to put my hand in. I want to train them to stay inside.

I know that. The goal is to not have to chase them down. That's the question I am asking. They don't return to their pens on their own even though they have been living there for 3 weeks already.

I have 2 broody-raised cockerels I want to make tame. I read in other threads to put chickens in small individual pens, and get them eating mealworms from your hands. So, I have done that. The next step is to get them used to being touched. The problem is that as soon as I open the pen more than...