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Can you traumatize your chickens?

Discussion in 'Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying' started by supdude, Jul 11, 2008.

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  1. Jul 11, 2008 #1
    supdude

    supdude In the Brooder

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    my cornish x goes nuts around food and attacks my 2 little chiks when they try to eat his food, today he tore out some feathers off my RIR butt and she screamed an took off, i pushed the roo and slapped him on the back of the head, he backed off a littl and was scared of me but pretty much forgot about it in 5 min. i wanted to know if you can accidentally or intentionally do something to chickens that will make them always cautious and scared around you? like they always remember what happened, or can they not remember that far back. my dog still remembers what guns are after he was abused with them, but i know chickens brains are tinier.
     
  2. Jul 11, 2008 #2
    ButtonQuailBoy

    ButtonQuailBoy Songster

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    [​IMG] Please don't hit your chickens (believe me the will retaliate)

    PS but don't spil them either...mine abuse me...don't tell them I said that!
     
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  3. Jul 11, 2008 #3
    Guitartists

    Guitartists Resistance is futile

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    I'm sure they will remember..... they learn real fast not to make the head roo mad! [​IMG]

    However, I wouldn;t smack them too hard... they are small creatures afterall.

    When any of my roos get out of line I just grab them by their neck feathers and give a little tug and say no... they don't like it...especially when it's what they like doing to the underlings [​IMG] [​IMG] LOL
     
  4. Jul 11, 2008 #4
    bigzio

    bigzio Crowing 11 Years

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    Chickens are truly gentle fowl in lifes true scheme of things. Pecking order and small squabbles should be left to the flock in my opinion. Help is needed when things get out of hand and blood is drawn....otherwise it is normal chicken behavior.

    bigzio
     
  5. Jul 11, 2008 #5
    d.k

    d.k red-headed stepchild

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    *I wouldn't recommend smacking 'em either. My elderly neighbor tapped her favorite duck, ah-- when it goosed her while she was pruning roses-- she tapped him and it broke his neck. She felt so bad.
     
  6. Jul 11, 2008 #6
    supdude

    supdude In the Brooder

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    i didnt hit him hard at all, i was upset because 4 feathers came out of his mouth and hes so much bigger than the little chiks, he just goes CRAZY for food, his even pupils dilate like a shark.
     
  7. Jul 11, 2008 #7
    Gazinga

    Gazinga Chook Norris

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    you really shouldnt hit your chickens [​IMG]
     
  8. Jul 11, 2008 #8
    PurpleChicken

    PurpleChicken Tolerated.....Mostly

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    Yo dude. Don't choke your chicken bro. That ain't cool man. You need to bite it
    on the back of the neck and speak the language of chickenese.
     
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  9. Jul 11, 2008 #9
    Colored Egg Farmer

    Colored Egg Farmer Chicken overload

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    don't take this to hard I take a golf club to my rooster when he gets out of line. and don't get mad if I didn't use the golf club he would be stew right now. He really learned who was golf I mean boss after that.
     
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  10. Jul 11, 2008 #10
    robinaggie

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    Are you feeding them enough?
     
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