Does anyone else feel like the Pied Piper?

reneemellor

In the Brooder
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Oct 8, 2011
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I swear, sometimes I feel like I should have a flute when I go out to feed my hens. They free range over our 10 acres and when I head out to feed them I yell, "here chick chick chick!" They come running from all corners of the property and fall in line behind me. They even follow me when I'm out doing other chores, I guess to make sure I don't feed some other animal something yummy. Lol, they are such funny little critters.
 
Same here. Ours free range over several, wooded acres. I can usually hear them scratching even if I can't see them. But when I call them, they do come running. And if I have treats, watch out! Once the treats are gone, they follow me everywhere. I love hearing their little feet behind me on the patio.
 
Hehe!
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This is too funny, because I have thought the same thing many times. I wouldn't recommend actually skipping along playing an imaginary flute, though... Did that once and one of the girls darted out in front of me, and before I could stop, I punted her about five feet. Oops.
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She wasn't hurt, just a little startled.
 
I shuffle so I don't step on them and make little shooing motions so they move out of the way.
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They don't do this to my husband. He doesn't give them treats. They know.
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Yep, if I have a treat cup in my hand, they're clustered around my feet and will follow me anywhere. Even if I don't have the cup, they'll run over to see me just in case.
 
I'm not so much a pied piper as a drum major. Any time I take the dog out while the girls are out free ranging, I start singing "I love a parade....!" The girls meet us at the back door, I pick the dog up and carry her out to the back of the garden, and we are escorted all the way out. My son watches and laughs at us. "Silly girls." I'm not sure which of us he's talking about....

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Every time I get close to our back door the girls come running up to the coop door waiting in anticipation of their snack. If I don't get to them fast enough they start squaking at me.
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I love my girls.
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You mean I am not the only one that has a chicken version of the "running of the bulls"? My girls would have you believe that they never get fed even though their crops are so full that their chest feathers are sticking strait out. To gauge it,its probably somewhere between a shark feeding frenzy and teen-age girls chasing Justin Bieber.
 
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