Chicken keeps pecking at my arms

[Calabogie chicken lady]

i have 6 chickens that have only been out of their coop twice since i have had them 1month, juSt too cold, when i go to open their door everyday to feed them i always pet them and talk to them, they seem to be wanting out, which is ok but one of them always comes over and starts pecking on my hand and arm. I have been poking it back on the beak put she keeps doing it.i don,t really mind but it is going to freak my youngster out.

 

[aart]

How old are these birds?

Have had this happen several times, mostly with hand fed chicks often as they come of age and get spunky. It's pretty easily curbed with calm and deliberate determination.

I peck them back, on the head or anywhere I can reach, with the tips of thumb and first 2 fingers, as hard and fast as many times as I can before they get away. Well, not hard enough to hurt them, just startle them and let them you mean business. That's what another chicken would do, so they understand that kind of communication.

If that doesn't work after a couple applications, I hold them down to the ground with my hand on their back until they submit....again firmly enough to get the job done but not hurt them....add a few finger pecks and/or tug on the feathers on the back of their neck.

 

[Calabogie chicken lady]

How old are these birds?

Have had this happen several times, mostly with hand fed chicks often as they come of age and get spunky. It's pretty easily curbed with calm and deliberate determination.

I peck them back, on the head or anywhere I can reach, with the tips of thumb and first 2 fingers, as hard and fast as many times as I can before they get away. Well, not hard enough to hurt them, just startle them and let them you mean business. That's what another chicken would do, so they understand that kind of communication.

If that doesn't work after a couple applications, I hold them down to the ground with my hand on their back until they submit....again firmly enough to get the job done but not hurt them....add a few finger pecks and/or tug on the feathers on the back of their neck.

Thank

 

[Calabogie chicken lady]

Thank you, the chickens are 3 months old and i have been hand feeding them. I will try the hand peck them back.