It's the most beautiful thing I have seen since our family began raising chickens:
We have six 14 week old chickens -- five young ladies and one roo. 2 barred rock females, 2 buff orpington females, a Easter Egger roo, and the Easter Egger female.
The little EE female may be the lowest in the pecking order, though there really is not alot of fighting between the six chickens. The only reason we think this is that the little EE female would rather come over to play with my wife and I rather than staying with the group during the last hour of the afternoon when the chickens are released from their home for an hour of free range time.
Anyway, the last two days have been absolutely remarkable.
The little EE female, who my wife has named BlueBerry, immediately leaves the coop when she is released, and comes over to the two of us. She will peck the ground around where we sit, and will even peck our shoes and our pants.
Eventually, she jumps on my wife's lap, and for a few minutes she will bury herself in my wife's busom.
Then, both afternoons, she eventually climbs up on to my wife's right shoulder, turns herself around so that she faces forward, and then she just sits there, rubbing against my wife's face or very gently pecking near my wife's face, neck or collar. She is very gentle, though, and the pecking is not harmful or hurtful in any way.
Finally, on the first night anyway, she stayed up there clear until the sun went down. And as the sun went down, the little 14 week old baby girl actually went to sleep on my wife's shoulder!
My wife sat there for about a half hour with a chicken sleeping on her shoulder before I finally went over there and gently relocated the little hen back into the chicken coop.
We have six 14 week old chickens -- five young ladies and one roo. 2 barred rock females, 2 buff orpington females, a Easter Egger roo, and the Easter Egger female.
The little EE female may be the lowest in the pecking order, though there really is not alot of fighting between the six chickens. The only reason we think this is that the little EE female would rather come over to play with my wife and I rather than staying with the group during the last hour of the afternoon when the chickens are released from their home for an hour of free range time.
Anyway, the last two days have been absolutely remarkable.
The little EE female, who my wife has named BlueBerry, immediately leaves the coop when she is released, and comes over to the two of us. She will peck the ground around where we sit, and will even peck our shoes and our pants.
Eventually, she jumps on my wife's lap, and for a few minutes she will bury herself in my wife's busom.
Then, both afternoons, she eventually climbs up on to my wife's right shoulder, turns herself around so that she faces forward, and then she just sits there, rubbing against my wife's face or very gently pecking near my wife's face, neck or collar. She is very gentle, though, and the pecking is not harmful or hurtful in any way.
Finally, on the first night anyway, she stayed up there clear until the sun went down. And as the sun went down, the little 14 week old baby girl actually went to sleep on my wife's shoulder!
My wife sat there for about a half hour with a chicken sleeping on her shoulder before I finally went over there and gently relocated the little hen back into the chicken coop.
