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awwww that is too cute! I have chickens that I when I pet them they close thier eyes while I do it. Then when I stop they look at me like thats all I get???
The very first day home Ziva hoped up on my mom's shoulder while we were re-arranging parrot cages (she was getting toys out of a box and handing them to me)
I have several snugglers, a couple stalkers and one that thinks riding in the van to the coffee shop for a dog biscuit is "normal chicken behavior" As I am always behind the camera, here is my daughter with her snuggler...Sandy, EE 1.5 years old. She is not sick she is merely enjoying Saturday morning cartoons.
I have a big Buff Orp cockerel that likes for me to carry him around and cuddle him. When we was smaller, he was really aggressive, but after I started spending some time with him, he has turned into a big sweetie.
Our Cochin/Amer. pullet, Oreo, LOVES to cuddle! She was raised all her life in her brooder box with no other chicks because she was the only one who hatched out of the batch of eggs we had in the bator.
But she got a lot of attention! Maybe a little too much...Now that she's older, she still thinks she's a human or something because she's lived in the house ever since she hatched, so now we are teaching her how to be like a real chicken.
She doesn't follow the rest of her flock, she doesn't go to roost at night, some of the other chickens bully her. At least she has some friends; her mother, Raven, and a small Cochin Bantam, named Pumpkin.
But she still likes to be off on her own, wandering around in the yard.
Anyway, she loves to cuddle! When I pick her up, she will fluff up and snuggle in my arms. And when I let her sit on my arm, she will fluff up and settle down like she's roosting.