tame

Hiya, I'm currently looking for suggestions on how to tame my White Peahen (Hera) and my India blue Peacock (Hercules). They were both semi-tame when I let them loose to roam our farm, where I could pet them, but now they've become quite distant and reluctant for me to pet or hold. Does...

I rescued a Barred Rock Juvenile (probably 12 weeks) from a local park and have been keeping it indoors in a wire dog crate. It seems to have had little experience with the outdoors, is hand tame, and is clinging to me. I need some tips on stepped integrating it into my flock as Im worried...

Hey y'all! Hope every ones having a good day so far! So this is my first time raising guineas, I got them when they were a few days old and they are so cute and fun! I tried really hard to not scare them, talked calmly, sang to them, tried to be very careful changing water and food so as not...

It’s name is Squabble. Found this little guy looking all lost and alone in town and my lord, Squabble rivals Scrappy in tameness and daftness. Thought it was sick... It is perfectly healthy. Thought it couldn’t fly... It flew around the living room and my bedroom. It is just too sweet and...

Hello everybirdie, so I know that quails are impressionable at birth, and if are not handled in their first week often they won’t be human-friendly. But are pheasants the same way? i’m getting a house golden pheasant, but I’ve ordered a roughly two month old one. Will he be able to be tamed...

Hello everybirdie, i love showing off my many species of birds. I happen to be very lucky and bought from a source that breeds tameness into buttons! And, of the two babies I hatched (first timer’s blunders), my little assumed tuxedo male is very friendly! i wanted to make a thread following...

So I have this old Japanese Quail who turns 4 on the 11th of November and he is still going strong. Many people find it crazy just how tame he is, as he'll happily take a nap on you and loves attention, as long as his dustbathing time isn't disturbed. :p You could probably do anything to this...

Brenham TX We’ve have 3 chickens we need to rehome to better their lives or because they do not fit into our future breeding program. 1 Americana (Hen, Scissor beak) 1 White Cochin Bantam 1 Golden Sunbright Bantam Rooster Hatch date was estimated to be March 31st. Asking $30 (total) for all 3...

we started out with 4 Sussex hens. When two of them passed away we made the mistake of buying 11 bared rocks (to many good layers = to many eggs) we had a few ducks at the time to. One night i noticed one of the chicks straying from the pen, when I hadn’t let them out. I immoderately ran over to...

Hey there, I have 4 13 week old hens and have had them for about 2 1/2 weeks. Just wondering if there are any good ways to tame them. They are quite skittish but have managed to get them to eat out of my hand, all I want to do is pick them up (but they aren't having any of that). I've read they...

I have 4 chicks that are not tame, I was wondering whether it would be a good idea for me to start handling them so they would get used to my hands when they're older. + any tips on taming chicks?

Olive is a sweet gentle rooster who needs a good home. His mom is a Silver Laced Orpington, his dad is a Cream Legbar. He carries the green egg, crest and barring genes from his dad as well as gold coloring without cream gene gold inhibitors, and partial lacing and the sweet, friendly nature...

Do you have a rooster ritual?

Hi guys, I went to my local produce shop on Saturday to buy some bedding for my hens and came back with an adorable duckling (best impulse buy ever). My little duckling is settling in very well in its own little closed off coup within my hens’ free run area (hoping everyone will be used to...

Hi, I'm a new-comer to the BYC forums but I've used it as a tool for extensive research and guidance for the last month and half. 2 weeks ago 7 of my coturnix quail eggs hatched and gave me 7 beautiful chicks, all of which I hope to tame and 3 of which I hope to keep as indoor pets...

Hi BYC! It's Ivy Love. I have a small bantam/Serama (I think) rooster, and he is very aggressive and mean. He used to be a real sweety, but now, he attacks me and my friends (@Dawnclucks22 for instance - yes I know her in real life) and I am not sure what to do. If taming him is the best option...

We are shortly relocating abroad and very sadly we cannot take our sweet girls; Mabel and Milly. These girls are young dependable layers (2 delicious eggs every other day). They are of a small bantam d'uccle breed. Mabel and Milly have been raised by hand and love humans. Mabel, in...

So, I was giving my injured female quail some mealworms and took her out to look at her toe, the swelling having gone down since yesterday... I gave her a mealworm while she was in my hands and she stopped struggling right away and ate it, I then let her go and gave her 2 more and well... Now I...