Catching your chickens,

[sabianshepherds]

My chickens free range while I am at work, but must come in when I get home so I can let the dogs out.
I have a sheep herding dog, and she usually she 'puts then away", but recently, she's gone nutty (season?) and she won't even look at them.

Now I don't fee them in the morning, so when I get home, they come running to me, and I put the food in the run.

 

[ChickenGirl165]

My hens usually go in when i open the door thing for them. other wise they cant get in. but when one mysteriously gets out, i crouch and with a quick movement touch them and they stick their shoulders up and look like they are ready to stand their ground. but of course i can lift them up without hassle.

 

[NHchicks]

It's tough to catch some of my chickens, like when I need to dose them with Eprinex or dust them (I did that once each), and soon I have to thin my roosters out so I'll need to catch those buggers. Not looking forward to that, and my roosts are too high so that I can't reliably get to them that way either. My elderly father said they used to use a net when he was young - I may have to try that. I hate scaring them tho.

The hens that we raised from chicks were so tame, they like to be held. But the ones that were hatched from a mama hen, they don't really like us getting too close. That's the one negative about having a broody hatch your chicks.

 

[Mavrik]

My crew open free ranges and I trained mine to come when I whistle. No matter where they are, if they can hear me, they will dart to me. Handy if you need them to come in because of a near by predator or whatever.

 

[greenegglover]

No problem with mine...they all come running and follow me around the yard....never gets old for them or me

 

[RickMiller]

We bribed them with treats and every time we brought the treats out I made sure we called them. Now, treat or not all I have to do is walk into the yard and yell, "Here chick, chick, chick," and they come running. They'll follow me right into the run.

 

[JodyJo]

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mine do this too...so funny.....I tell my hubby they love me, he says no, you are carrying treats...same thing isn't it?

 

[gmendoza]

graduate from "the rocky balboa school of chicken catching".