Do your chicks love you?!!!

[gimmie birdies]

My chicks, and chickens close their eyes when I hug them.

 

[SueT]

I have always believed that new baby chicks will imprint on their human. Here is an excerpt I found on the subject:
“When a baby chick hatches from the egg, the chick imprints on the first moving object that it sees. The chick believes the imprinted object to be its mother, even if that object is a human being. Imprinting stamps the mind of a bird with a lifelong image, and that initial stamp is irreversible.”
For more on this article:
https://fourstringfarm.com/2014/02/18/the-imprinting-of-birds/

 

[Party_Chicken]

One of my hens was being severally bullied by my rooster(he left). She would always hide from him and the other chickens. When I would get home she would bolt from her hiding place and run straight towards me and peck my shoes until I picked her up. Every day after we resolved the situation she still bolts to me and demands her hug. My other chickens love pets and always follow me around but if chickens can love she loves me.

 

[Farmgirl283420]

How sweet!

 

[fluffycrow]

I don't usually have the friendliest of chicks, but aseel are friendly on another level. For more info this photo was taken less than 24 hours after they first saw me. They were around 2 months old in this picture. This is one them from about two months ago

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Love the roo my roo was a lap guy but attacked everyone else in the family so we had to rehome him sigh I miss my big guy

 

[fluffycrow]

Love the roo my roo was a lap guy but attacked everyone else in the family so we had to rehome him sigh I miss my big guy

I've had to rehome this stag too. He had a leg problem that was genetic, and with three roosters on the farm the neighbors weren't happy

 

[Farmgirl283420]

I've had to rehome this stag too. He had a leg problem that was genetic, and with three roosters on the farm the neighbors weren't happy

Awww that's too bad he looks like a sweet guy

 

[Addicted To Chickens]

One of my chickens pecks me really hard on my knee signaling me to pick her up and put her on my lap!!!

 

[Addicted To Chickens]

Her names Kiki