Babies!

[nycampchickens]

Hello! I rehomed my rooster about a month ago, but I decided to incubate some of our eggs to get some home grown baby chickens. Out of 29 eggs, we had 15 hatch! I am quite excited about it as this is my first time incubating eggs, and I did it all myself. I know statistically we will have 7-8 males.

Because they're camp chickens, we have several people coming to see them each day. I want to train our future roosters to be nice, so I put together this rules list:
1. Always stay calm around the chickens.
2. Handle them often. Never be rough with them.
3. No loud noises, sudden movements, running, carrying large objects.

Are there any other guidelines I should add? Ideally, all our roosters will grow up to love people (I know this is not realistic, lol). Let me know!

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

When they're little things, don't cuddle or spoil them.

 

[BellasBackyardRanch]

With chickens you just need to hold them and handle them a lot when they are babies anything else doesn't really matter. I did that with all my rooster chicks and now them come next to you and lay down and let you pet them, don't be on top of them all the time but form a friendship.