chicken blog

[iopele]

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LOLOLOL! What a description! She sounds like quite a character. My parents' dog, Sadie, is just a big white horse of a sloth. (She's an Irish Wolfhound so she's enormous, but I swear if a burglar came into their house, she'd help 'em carry stuff to the car.) She will, however, chase things away from the chickens. When there's a fox or skunk around, they let her sleep in the yard with the chickens.

My Simi is just under a year and a half old and is far too hyper for her own good. If it moves, she wants to play with it, and if it's small, well, it better escape before Simi gets to it. I think she'll calm down when she gets older, but for now, she's definitely on close supervision whenever chickens are around!

(My parents and I live right next door and share the large chicken yard, btw.)

 

[SeaChick]

Cute! I love chick pictures. Very fluffy.
-Olivia

 

[domromer]

Here are some pics of the girls running around on the bathroom floor. I have 2 of them trained to step up on my hand like a pet parrot.

 

[barg]

Im going to post a thread and ask what kinda camera people have cause you , and others, get shots I could never get with my camera.
Nice job...
by the way, what kinda camera you useing.

 

[domromer]

Canon PowerShot S2

Here is a link

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons2is/

To get those shots I had the camera set on macro mode. The ISO was 400, and I rested the camera on the floor while taking the shots. Nice and still and right at chick level.

 

[SeaChick]

How did you train them to jump to your hand???

-Olivia

ps... CUUUTE!

 

[domromer]

just by handling them alot. They begn to enjoy being pet and taken out of the brooder.

 

[iopele]

Olivia, I handled mine lots and they never really came to me until I started giving them crumbled egg yolk in my hand. Now whenever I reach into the brooder they run up and jump on my hand, looking for treats!

I need to get a video of treat-time somehow. It's like a shark feeding frenzy, only fluffier. Those chicks are cut-throat about getting that yolk!

 

[SeaChick]

Thanks, iopele. I'll try it. All of mine are totally relaxed when I pick them up and most fall asleep in my hand!

Is this what yours do domromer?

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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Holds true!

 

[domromer]

mine are very active. they like to crawl all around and peck at freckels on my arm