Does anyone else feel like the Pied Piper?

[Rosaleen]

Our neighbors would get a laugh whenever I pulled out the lawn mower. All the girls would follow me as I pushed the mower and they would devour any bugs and grass that were displaced.

 

[reneemellor]

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Ours did the same with rototiller. I have never seen such happy chickens, they were sure it was all for their benefit.

 

[Mommy 2 Wee Ones]

I sometimes hate to go out, because they come a runnin when they hear the sliding glass door open. Yesterday I had to keep telling them, I am working on the coop, just go back to what you were doing.

Tonight I did not even have treats, been sick all day & just wanted to go out and fill up their feed bowl for the night. And behind me I hear the thud thud thud of chicken feet. Gave out two cups of feed, some alfalfa & a cup of food for the run. When I put the cup away, I noticed all of them were either in the coop eating or the run eating. Did a quick head count & everyone was accounted for, so I closed up the run. A hour & a half later, Hubby locked them up for the night.

I love to watch the girls run across the yard towards me, wings out stretched and bobbing from side to side. It makes my day.

 

[critters]

LOL... yeah, I feel like I have more dogs the way they run to me...struting/weaving side to side...
it's sooo cute! holding their wings up off their sides...it's comical! and at bedtime they will run to me
and stay under my feet all the way to their coop...squatting and waiting for me to pet them or scratch
their backs...mine really are so much like dogs!!

they're my girls!!

 

[Arielle]

And I thought I was the only one coping with hens underfoot just after the screen door bangs shut !
THe girls nearby turn on their turbo power and race for perceived goodies, its only a maybe each time I head out the door, but they come a running sending the signal for all to zip over. Though I've noticed a few EE couldn't be bothered; perhaps they are already full of goodies from their own scratching efforts, or didn't get the message.
When the girls figure out I am empty handed, they go back to ranging, but the turkey poults follow me every where like I'm their mother hen. Yes, I feel like the pied piper.

 

[AUChick9202]

Glad I am not the only one that thinks it is cute to see all her chickens run across the yard at the sound of her voice

My girls are so spoiled. They know when the meal times are at our house b/c they get the "left-overs." I can't go outside anymore without them running up for a treat! They are worse than dogs when it comes to begging for food!

 

[kmerkley01]

There is nothing quite like the sound of a chicken herd chasing after you! Our 13 are not a flock, they are a herd. They are the happiest girls I've seen. Always following us around in hopes that we have more treats.

And if we aren't fast enough in getting the treats to them, they will just jump up on us or the table. "Here I am! Feed me!!"

I've often told my parents that it feels like we are the Pied Pipers.....because every where you go, you have this funny little herd behind you!

 

[curious1969]

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[BellevueOmlet]

It is the best feeling when you see them duck down their heads and run straight to you. I don't have children so my chickens are my children and they are the best kids ever

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Are they better at that...free ranging and not running off.....if they are started young? We got ours at about 6 weeks old, and they had been free ranging..wild gamecocks. We didn't think they would stay put, so, they are in a chicken tractor. We have 6 hens and a roo. But, my question is, is it too late to let them free range like y'all are talking about? We have 1 acre, rural..but about 6 neighbor dogs that have already caught and killed 3 of our roos we were going to cull. I am thinking the dogs would go after the chickens. And then, we would have no more.