How can you get a chicken to like you? Iny ideas?

[real_redhead]

She is so cute, since she is still very young try raw oatmeal. When my girls were little my kids hand fed them oatmeal and the girls loved it.

 

[TroutsChicks]

-whisper-

cheese

 

[The Breaker]

since she is still so yung you posted this before it was to late just hold here and talck to here softly and pet here and give here treats and she shuld be your best friend.I have a old english game bantam hen and I hald here and gave here food entill she became my friend and now evry time I walck in to the coop she flys onto my sholder egcpecting food.

 

[ChickenPeep]

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I'll try it! I'm sure if you say it too loud the chickens will attack you hoping to get some!

 

[ProudNewChickenMommy86]

I Had A Stray Roo That Showed Up Last Week... He Kept Sqwacking And Hauled Butt In A Dif Direction. But He Perched Up On My Porch On Night And I Grabbed Him Up And Hugged Him Til He Calmed Down And Then Sat Down With Him In My Lapand Forced My Affection On Him... Now He Don't Run From Me When I Come Out He Just Kinda Looks At Me Funny And Eats Beside The Girls. And Now Every Night He Gets Patted And Just Sits There. His Huge Spurs Still Scare The Crap Out Of Me Though Lol.

 

[ChickenPeep]

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Oh roosters, just gotta love 'em to death!

 

[stoopid]

So next time you have him in your lap, take the dog clippers to the spurs...
Have you ever trimmed them before? It's easy, just don't try to take too much off at once, you don't want him to bleed too much.
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[jjthink]

Not a weird question at all.

Wish more folks in the world cared to have a chicken like them.

Love
Patience
Gentleness, always
Yummy healthy treats
Talk to her, sing to her

Every day of her life.

Know her so well that if she's not feeling well you know it right away because, well, you can just tell

She may go through a seemingly unfriendly 'teenage' phase as I have seen pullets do but she WILL love you and in time, she'll show you. As we know, love takes time as trust is busy being formed....

JJ

 

[bobbieschicks]

My 1st treats for the babies were yogurt with feed mixed in. They loved it. They would cover themselves in it and fling it around the brooder. Now that they are larger it's mealyworms for sure and occassionally some corn on the cob. All I have to do is yell "chick chick chick treats" and shake that mealyworm can and they fly to me. I let the larger hens eat out of my hand as long as they don't pull skin. Then I try to touch them as they are near me. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But the rooster is tossed his goodies as he won't come near me anyways.

Now the youngest ones haven't been trained like that so I have to get on the ball otherwise I won't have them eating out of my hand anytime soon and they are harder to catch when I need to treat them.

 

[MontanaChickenLady]

Raisins!!!! OMG my chick chicks go absolutely nuts for raisins. I buy the round container with plastic lid kind from Super Wally and I tap on the lid starting from my house......they are all lined up at the gate and storm me when I try to get in the compound. I give them mealworms as well but it took them awhile to like them whereas they have LOVED raisins from day one. And hey, who doesn't like a little sugar?