Can you traumatize your chickens?

[seminolewind]

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He didn't choke his chicken, he smacked it. And now you want him to bite it?

 

[PurpleChicken]

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He didn't choke his chicken, he smacked it. And now you want him to bite it?

Choke, spank, what's the difference. Maybe he's just lonely.

chicken violence... Spread love not hate...


Besides that, anyone who has any understanding of animals knows violence
doesn't work. Biting it on the back of the neck exerts your dominance over
the chicken more than hitting it.

 

[countryboy]

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He didn't choke his chicken, he smacked it. And now you want him to bite it?

if he is going to spank his chicken then bite it I think that would be better then clubbing it, don't you? thats just to brutal to use a club.

 

[3peeps]

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He didn't choke his chicken, he smacked it. And now you want him to bite it?

It's a bad pun. That probably shouldn't be on this board, if I remember the adult content rules.

 

[3peeps]

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Well, I'm not getting mad, but if you have to take a golf club to him, why don't you just make him stew and get yourself a decent rooster?

 

[onthespot]

try putting a few different feeding stations away from each other, and possibly out of sight from each other.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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He didn't choke his chicken, he smacked it. And now you want him to bite it?

It's a bad pun. That probably shouldn't be on this board, if I remember the adult content rules.

Oh please...

 

[chickypoo]

try putting a few different feeding stations away from each other, and possibly out of sight from each other.

I agree. We added 3 babies to the flock a while ago and had the same problem. They were only a month younger but it can take a little bit to sort out a pecking order.

If our roo was picking on one of the babies (while we were there) we would just lean over and sort of scoot him out of the way

. He would give a couple of clucks like "how dare you touch my butt!"

and then keep doing his own thing. They will eventually come around, give them time, but two feeding stations may help.​

 

[supdude]

ya im feeding him enough, and i do have 2 feeding trays i will start moving them farther apart, and really i didnt slap him hard at all. what i really wanted to know was can you do something to your chicken to make it scared of you forever. like accidentally stepping on his toes or something like that

 

[sweetshoplady]

I would think that a repeated action toward a chicken would create a permanent "fear" in the same way kindness would create trust.

But a single action in the midst of a"contrary" and "opposing" actions, like one day you grab them by the feet or chase them, but the rest of the time you carry them in the loose football hold, feed them special treats, pet them, that it would be an isolated incident.

It would probably also depend on the intensity of the incident. I do know that if my horse is spooked at a certain place, that every time we go there he remembers being frightened.

I put out several (3-4) trays of supper so that every body gets some and I only have about 15 chickens.