Are your chickens tame????

[dappertophatter]

Yes! I FINALLY just taught the newest batch of young'uns NOT to fly onto my head when I come in the door, because obviously I have no food on my head, and while I love you too, your feet aren't always the cleanest.

Their mom did that too (thanks a lot, BonBon!). Now everybody just crowds around my feet when I walk in and whines for food, totally oblivous of the full #25 feeder five steps away. (You have not lived until you have head a cranky or distressed Polish whine.).

ON the other hand (or most often the other side of the coop) my handsome rooster-boy is fine around people, just don't pick him up. At all. Not fun. We're slowly breaking him of that and he's a LOT better, though!

 

[Uzuri]

Mine are and aren't. ALL of them, Rooster included, come running when they see me coming in the hopes that they'll get something. SOME of them will come to me if I ask them to, or get down on their level (the wyandottes are the best for this, and they're my best layers, too, and favorites overall). ONE runs screaming the other way when I come near her, no matter what (she's a Welsummer). And Rooster, thankfully, takes off for parts unknown when I step in his direction, and that's how I want it. And those who don't run one way or the other can usually be coaxed toward me with enough time, and will be still for me when I catch them.

 

[sotelomary]

I am disappointed with my 5 pullets.

None of them are tame even though they were handled alot as chicks. After free ranging, I call to them and throw scratch into their run to get them back into the coop. Well yesterday, I decided to give them their treat while my husband was cleaning the coop. Big mistake! It took both of us forever to get them to go in! You should have seen us it was hilarious!

One of us had to be by the door while the other one tried to herd them and we kept blaming each other because it wasn't working.

Learned my lesson, don't change my routine!

Mary

 

[MaggieRae]

I have 7 pullets and 1 cockerel... They're all very tame. By far though, my australorp pullet and rooster are the most comfortable around humans. My ee's also love people and will fly up onto your arm or sit in your lap on the rocker. My SLW's don't love to be picked up (My thoughts are they don't like the height, because they're fine if you hold them sitting down.

) but are still very friendly.

When they were chicks, I tried to hold each one a good 30 minutes a day... Often times I couldn't, but overall they were all held a lot. I also would take them out and feed them treats. They learned that time out of the brooder with Maggie = good food. I also took them for 'walks', which were just them all sitting on my shoes while I walked... I don' t know how they all fit, my feet aren't that big...

 

[chickenmamalp]

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[cwc362]

Almost every chicken, duck , goose I have here on the place thinks it is a dog- Nothing stays too wild around here for some reason. They walk on my feet and one of my young muscovies pulls on my pants until I give him something to eat. He grabs the material and yanks until I pay him attention. I had one little young game hen that would fly on my arm but a hawk got her. If I have them out freeranging they follow me around like a pack of dogs. LOL

 

[cwc362]

Almost every chicken, duck , goose I have here on the place thinks it is a dog- Nothing stays too wild around here for some reason. They walk on my feet and one of my young muscovies pulls on my pants until I give him something to eat. He grabs the material and yanks until I pay him attention. I had one little young game hen that would fly on my arm but a hawk got her. If I have them out freeranging they follow me around like a pack of dogs. LOL

 

[cwc362]

Almost every chicken, duck , goose I have here on the place thinks it is a dog- Nothing stays too wild around here for some reason. They walk on my feet and one of my young muscovies pulls on my pants until I give him something to eat. He grabs the material and yanks until I pay him attention. I had one little young game hen that would fly on my arm but a hawk got her. If I have them out freeranging they follow me around like a pack of dogs. LOL

 

[catfish/okie]

Mine are tame for chickens. Not like puppy dogs and kitty cats. But they get under your feet when you go to feed them. I can pet most of them when their on the roost. One will jump into my lap when I sit down in a lawn chair to see if I have treats. They dont enjoy being caught and held.

 

[cwc362]

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Don't know what in the world I did but this posted 3 times!! LOL Hopefully one of the mods can remove two of the posts!! Thanks and sorry !!