That's probably the best thing I've heard... "a true gentleman". I hope. It's my daughters favorite also, they are all friendly but this one in particular is always happy to see us. I have looked at the legs and on my friend's roo's they are thicker but these seem to be the same as all of the others. I could just be paranoid about getting a mean bird. Especially one we like so much.
Yippee!
For the past three days I have been bringing a treat with me every morning and evening when I go to check on my Chickies. I announce myself with a stylized chicken cluck ("Bkaa-bukbuk") so the know I'm coming. I then gently slide back the hardware cloth covering their brooder to check on their water and food. At this point they used to all scramble to the other end and hide in their cave. but eventually they would come out and some would check to see what I had in my hand.
I started with meal worms, with little enthusiasm, then experimented with pieces of banana, last night I tried pieces of apple and this morning I gave them a blackberry. They were cautious at first, giving it experimental pecks, So I left it on the floor of their brooder. This evening when I came in with some bits of tomato they all RAN out and virtually mobbed me! Some jumped up on my wrist, one even made it out of the brooder (the one I was toying with the name Braveheart, naturally) and I had to catch her and get her back in.
D'ya think it might just be possible they're starting to like me?
Yippee!
For the past three days I have been bringing a treat with me every morning and evening when I go to check on my Chickies. I announce myself with a stylized chicken cluck ("Bkaa-bukbuk") so the know I'm coming. I then gently slide back the hardware cloth covering their brooder to check on their water and food. At this point they used to all scramble to the other end and hide in their cave. but eventually they would come out and some would check to see what I had in my hand.
I started with meal worms, with little enthusiasm, then experimented with pieces of banana, last night I tried pieces of apple and this morning I gave them a blackberry. They were cautious at first, giving it experimental pecks, So I left it on the floor of their brooder. This evening when I came in with some bits of tomato they all RAN out and virtually mobbed me! Some jumped up on my wrist, one even made it out of the brooder (the one I was toying with the name Braveheart, naturally) and I had to catch her and get her back in.
D'ya think it might just be possible they're starting to like me?
I have done more research and read more sites and apparently it's not common but certainly not unheard of. Someone said they finally put a rooster in the flock and his crowing hen stopped crowing and went back to laying eggs...these are some crazy chickens!
That is great!Yippee!e
For the past three days I have been bringing a treat with me every morning and evening when I go to check on my Chickies. I announce myself with a stylized chicken cluck ("Bkaa-bukbuk") so the know I'm coming. I then gently slide back the hardware cloth covering their brooder to check on their water and food. At this point they used to all scramble to the other end and hide in their cave. but eventually they would come out and some would check to see what I had in my hand. I started with meal worms, with little enthusiasm, then experimented with pieces of banana, last night I tried pieces of apple and this morning I gave them a blackberry. They were cautious at first, giving it experimental pecks, So I left it on the floor of their brooder. This evening when I came in with some bits of tomato they all RAN out and virtually mobbed me! Some jumped up on my wrist, one even made it out of the brooder (the one I was toying with the name Braveheart, naturally) and I had to catch her and get her back in. D'ya think it might just be possible they're starting to like me?
