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We have 6 chickens that we got at the age of 2 weeks. All of them have major trust issues. When we need to pick them up, it's a challenge of chasing them around in order to get ahold of them. When we try to extend a hand to feed or pet them, they automatically back away or run away. They're afraid of us, though we can't figure out why. It's been this way since we got them. We feed them food from our hands, give them some garden worms once and a while to gain trust but nothing's working. We can't even hold them on our laps if you wanted to. Any suggestions would be gladly accepted. If we needed to grab one that got hurt for some reason, we're worried they would hurt themselves even more trying to run from us. I want to be able to at least pick them up and hold them in my arms if needed.
We can hand feed them, but not much more. We've tried to handle them around the age of 2 weeks and up, but they were always afraid of us no matter what. No matter how many times we tried to grab them, they constantly were afraid of us.
I see all these pictures of people holding their chickens in their arms, and I'm like, "how?"
I know it sounds stupid, but it's an issue that's been bothering me. Thanks.
We have 6 chickens that we got at the age of 2 weeks. All of them have major trust issues. When we need to pick them up, it's a challenge of chasing them around in order to get ahold of them. When we try to extend a hand to feed or pet them, they automatically back away or run away. They're afraid of us, though we can't figure out why. It's been this way since we got them. We feed them food from our hands, give them some garden worms once and a while to gain trust but nothing's working. We can't even hold them on our laps if you wanted to. Any suggestions would be gladly accepted. If we needed to grab one that got hurt for some reason, we're worried they would hurt themselves even more trying to run from us. I want to be able to at least pick them up and hold them in my arms if needed.
We can hand feed them, but not much more. We've tried to handle them around the age of 2 weeks and up, but they were always afraid of us no matter what. No matter how many times we tried to grab them, they constantly were afraid of us.
I see all these pictures of people holding their chickens in their arms, and I'm like, "how?"
I know it sounds stupid, but it's an issue that's been bothering me. Thanks.
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