Bonding

[ladyhand]

How do you bond with your chicks? I’m the type of person who loves animals more than people. A couple of the chicks, while they run away when I try getting them, love sleeping on my shoulder under my robe.

I have sapphire gems I believe (based on the sign at the store), and I read they’re supposed to be pretty friendly.

 

[Cassandra Lana]

I Cuddled mine individually, daily. The friendly-breed ones turned out friendly

 

[GoldenGryphon]

Howdy!
I fear I go the other way. I will make friends with the adult birds, just through constant working and feeding them. Routine is important to most critters, so I try to feed and water the same way every day, with only minor variations.

I stay distant from my birds because I have already lost way too many feathered goofballs to everything from having to move quickly (they were sold to a feed store for resale), to random chicken death, to predators that wiped out my 30 member flock.
Because we eat our birds, I learned that naming them was a Bad Idea, and cuddling them was right out.
If you hope to have Cuddle Chickens, just keep supplies of Chicken Candy (whatever you and your flock prefer), and handle them daily. They'll come around.

 

[ladyhand]

Howdy!
I fear I go the other way. I will make friends with the adult birds, just through constant working and feeding them. Routine is important to most critters, so I try to feed and water the same way every day, with only minor variations.

I stay distant from my birds because I have already lost way too many feathered goofballs to everything from having to move quickly (they were sold to a feed store for resale), to random chicken death, to predators that wiped out my 30 member flock.
Because we eat our birds, I learned that naming them was a Bad Idea, and cuddling them was right out.
If you hope to have Cuddle Chickens, just keep supplies of Chicken Candy (whatever you and your flock prefer), and handle them daily. They'll come around.

Thank you. I’m definitely not a meat eater, and my exception to veganism will be the eggs they lay. I can imagine not getting attached if they’re being butchered. I have no judgement towards anyone so long as they treat their animals with respect and dignity during their lives.

 

[Grandma Taylor]

Our birds free range so from experience we no longer get too cuddly with them. If your birds free range and you get too friendly they lose that flight instinct they need to survive. If they are not free range the more time you spend with them the friendlier they will be!

 

[sassychickens76]

I hold mine quite often but not to where I constantly have them. I haven't figured out a treat they like though....

 

[ladyhand]

I hold mine quite often but not to where I constantly have them. I haven't figured out a treat they like though....

Same with the treats here! How old are yours?

 

[sassychickens76]

Same with the treats here! How old are yours?

One week today.