Can you teach chickens NOT to do things?

[Henhouse Harlot]

A squirt gun/sprayer of water might work, with a quick mealworm treat when the chicken hops down..?

 

[alinas2010]

A squirt gun/sprayer of water might work, with a quick mealworm treat when the chicken hops down..?

Oooo I like it, I’m gonna try it!

 

[Callender Girl]

It COULD work. I tried a spray bottle with Billy Boy, my jerky little Cochin Bantam rooster who thinks he needs to attack me every chance he gets (he gets fewer chances these days because he spends a lot of time in chicken jail).

It worked at first, then he apparently decided to enjoy the shower, just to spite me. Your birds sound much nicer.

 

[alinas2010]

It COULD work. I tried a spray bottle with Billy Boy, my jerky little Cochin Bantam rooster who thinks he needs to attack me every chance he gets (he gets fewer chances these days because he spends a lot of time in chicken jail).

It worked at first, then he apparently decided to enjoy the shower, just to spite me. Your birds sound much nicer.

May learn to enjoy showers got it!

 

[Henhouse Harlot]

I'm glued to this thread..! Lol What's going to happen next??

 

[Happy hen lover]

I saw someone made a collar of a plastic replica of a burger king crown zigzagged looking thing. I personally thought about rose bush branches with thorns!

 

[alinas2010]

In case anyone was curious, Pepper has effectively not been jumping in the flower pot ever since our little stand off. She has, however, jumped up on the fence independently of the flower pot I’ve taken her down twice now, with the last time being this morning. So far she hasn’t jumped back up. The new run couldn’t come fast enough!