Chicken training

[Star and eclipsa]

Good luck with your training. Chickens are smart, and they learn pretty quickly, but you need to take things gradually and in stages.

Your first step is to put the harness on the chicken and let them get used to it. Be prepared to see some funny gyrations as the chicken attempts to get out of it. I wouldn't try to walk in the park until the chicken is completely comfortable wearing the harness. There's more to do before that, though.

The next step is getting the chicken accustomed to being in a strange setting. That will require a gradual adjustment, too. You may need to work up to the "walking" part for as long as a week before the chicken is ready for it.

Be patient. Take it slow. Reward positive behavior. Treats work well to train chickens.

My chickens go crazy for peas and scrambled eggs, so i can start cooking peas IN the scrambled eggs and give that to them as a treat.

 

[starrmar006]

mine go crazy for bread

 

[Star and eclipsa]

I've given my chickens bread before. They ate it but they where just like 'meh, it's okay'.

 

[starrmar006]

 

[azygous]

If the antibiotic ointment has lidocaine in it to treat pain, it is toxic to chickens and you don't want to use it, but plain Neosporin is fine, and won't poison a chicken.

 

[aart]

Really? My grandma said that stuff is probably poisonous to animals.

If the antibiotic ointment has lidocaine in it to treat pain, it is toxic to chickens and you don't want to use it, but plain Neosporin is fine, and won't poison a chicken.

Yes, this^^^
Any ingredient with a -caine suffix can be toxic to birds.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

I'll ask my grandma to get some blue-kote when she gets batteries on the way home.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

 

[Star and eclipsa]

Where can you buy blu-kote?

 

[aart]

Where can you buy blu-kote?

Tractor Supply...but a "tiny scratch" most likely needs no attention.