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How can you tell if your chicken trusts you?

  • 1. He or she jumps on your hat and roosts there.

    Votes: 1 100.0%

  • 2. Your hen is happy to lay an egg with you in the shed.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 3. Your chicken nuzzles under your armpit when you pick it up.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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    1
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rachel9947

rachel9947

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Hi all,
I am a new member and would like to introduce myself. I have only had chucks for 4 years and am still learning lots about them. I have a small flock, only 12, and try to keep rare breeds as they need to be protected. However, I am also deeply in love with some breeds, particularly Pekins and Orpingtons, so leave it up to others to keep other rare breeds. I have 3 Orpingtons, 8 Pekins, and 1 Welsummer. We also have a cocker spaniel, a large cat of unspecified parentage, and a heap of tame 'wild' pheasants plus other wild birds. We live in a very rural area in North Yorkshire in England. We have 3 children, all grown up (well, in theory!), two of whom are now in London and the third still at home. Our dog is terrified of the chucks, having been pecked once (she is not the bravest little dog!) and our cat is brilliant with them. They regard him as a real friend as he comes to sort out the rats in the chicken pen! I have lovely photos of him sitting down with them all around him. He never touches them, knowing that they are pets. They never peck him, knowing that would be beyond rude!
 
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Thanks for introducing yourself! Sounds like you have quite the menagerie
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Thanks to everybody who welcomed me. I will try to transport the photos of Malachi, our cat, with the chucks to my PC.. not madly computer savvy, but I guess my son will help me. As Damian Aspinall said, crossing the boundaries of species is really special, and it is not only us who can do that. My cat has done it, and the chucks regard him as their friend and guardian. Not sure how her regards them, but, I do know that anything I love he respects. and will regard as part of his brief to guard.
 

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