Do you hug your fowl?

[topochico225]

Heck yes. Kiss em too. Right smack on the beak.

 

[EEforMe]

Heck yes. Kiss em too. Right smack on the beak.

Same!!!! But one time I looked and this is what I had just kissed

yup. The brown streaks. I still do it all the time though!!

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

I hug mine pretty much every day. Poppy is especially soft, though she's fussy. Anisette is the same, but she's even fussier.
I like cuddling Spook when I can, the silly guinea. He's very sweet once I get him on my lap -- just sits there and lets me hug him.

I don't think that I've ever gotten sick from the chickens. I wash my hands after handling them or anything in the run/coop. Sometimes even after touching their eggs, if the eggs are fresh and have stuff on them.

I want Silkies and Cochins someday. All for cuddles and broodiness. Probably mostly cuddles.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Heck yes. Kiss em too. Right smack on the beak.

I don't kiss them anymore, but I do like to poke their beaks with the tip of my nose. Kind of like my version of a peck to them.
Of course, one must be careful so as to not be pecked in the eye when doing this... I suggest doing this with the sweet birds that don't have a history of pecking everything put in front of them and not the ones that find shiny things like eyeballs very tasty-looking.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Same!!!! But one time I looked and this is what I had just kissed
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yup. The brown streaks. I still do it all the time though!!

Oh, ewwww. Gotta be careful doing that!

 

[kurby22]

If I could I would hug each and every one of my chickens every day! I respect their boundaries, and let them come to me and now I have about 3-4 that will sit with me daily and my favorite who snuggles with me on my shoulder or under my chin. She’s my baby! She even comes inside on the weekends and watches football with me—well she sleeps, I watch. Hehe.

I try hard not to kiss them at all, but one of my bantam Cochins just LOVES to fly up to see me by landing on the lid of my coffee cup when I’m not looking (it’s a to go cup) so I’m sure I’m drinking microorganisms and poop anyway!

 

[woodworm]

We sit out with our chooks most days so they can free range for a while, they usually come and sit with us so they get patted and hugged.

One stood in my gin and tonic which I still drank - can't be letting that go to waste!