➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

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FlyingNunFarm said:
I Pied Piper the chickens when I have an escape of more then one. Shake the treat bag and they follow! :gig
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i agree this works 90% of the time, the other 10% stand there and look at you with that stoopid look like yeah? what and then run away, perfect example last night im getting ready to close up the barn im in a standoff with one chicken trying to get through the man door and on the other side 4 fat cows trying to go were the chicken is coming through yeah picture that one in ur head took me bout 20 mins to distract the cows long enough for the chicken to feel comfy to come through the door and mind you i shake the treat bag for the chickens..... well the cows relize this as the same treat bag they get and the cows try attacking me for the treats the damn chicken was laughing inside i know it :barnie
 
Vortex81 said:
Im curious as to how one would go about tameing there chickens? I started out with a 4 foot pallet fence for my chickens and well lets just say i looked like @Glitterchicks running around after the chickens hurling my giant fish net at them and completly missing :lau so now i just said to hell with the fence and let them go where ever they please. For the most part they dont travel to far away i mean i never had them like completly run away but they do like pushing there limits... any suggestions?



Do you know how veiws that would get i mean we could prolly no joke start a youtube channel and just have users from here post there crazy videos chasing there chickens or other animals around trying to catch them :lau:lau
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You know about Pavlov's dogs? I don't chase chickens. I ring the big, loud bell and the chickens run from wherever they are (we have acreage and no fences) to their coop. They don't even have to see me and anybody (including a complete stranger minding them in my absence who knows nothing about chickens or a small child) can get them in.

Step one, install a bell on your coop. Hubby selected this adorable and still highly functional bell:
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Step two, ring the bell and throw a bit of your preferred chicken treat in their run. Repeat a couple times per day for a week or so.
Step three, open the run door but before they go far, ring the bell and throw treats in run. Shut door once they all go in. Repeat as with step two but let the interval between release and return lengthen.

That's all there is to it. And if you brood subsequent chicks in or near the coop, you never have to do it again! The adults will train the youngsters for you.
 
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Glitterchicks said:
I'm just sad that I couldn't personally witness the moment that Kiki realized she bought balut... And that it was alive :eek:.
Reading about it made my morning. I didn't even need coffee :gig.
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I need to put the video of me finding The Man in the parking lot up again.
Me telling him my name and number.
I still can't believe I did that.
 
debid said:
You know about Pavlov's dogs? I don't chase chickens. I ring the big, loud bell and the chickens run from wherever they are (we have acreage and no fences) to their coop. They don't even have to see me and anybody (including a complete stranger minding them in my absence who knows nothing about chickens or a small child) can get them in.

Step one, install a bell on your coop. Hubby selected this adorable and still highly functional bell:
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Step two, ring the bell and throw a bit of your preferred chicken treat in their run. Repeat a couple times per day for a week or so.
Step three, open the run door but before they go far, ring the bell and throw treats in run. Shut door once they all go in. Repeat as with step two but let the interval between release and return lengthen.

That's all there is to it. And if you brood subsequent chicks in or near the coop, you never have to do it again! The adults will train the youngsters for you.
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I love this.
I too use a can..shake it and mine come running back.
 

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