How to get chicks to imprint on you?

[Chicken-lovebirdchihuahua]

I will be hatching eggs (hopefully I will have chicks!) and if I do last time I incubated chicks they liked me at first a lot and then after like a week they stopped liking me does anyone have any tips? Thanks!

 

[chickencheeper]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/getting-your-chickens-to-adore-you.73206/

 

[sylviethecochin]

When I was a kid, I used to take the chicks outside with me, when it was warm. I'd "study," they'd sleep on my back for heat (and poop, to my mother's despair). I'd call them when I found nice bugs and hand-feed them chick-starter.

They sort of weaned naturally, and they weren't the friendliest birds when they got older, but I could pick them up, if I was nice about it.

You have to spend a lot of time with them, and it helps if you hand-feed.

 

[Plip]

You have to spend a lot of time with them, and it helps if you hand-feed.

My 8-year-old daughter is a lot better at it than I am. And you're right. The secret is just time. She just messes with them -- in a gentle way that they welcome. And they recognize her. Me, they can take or leave.

As time goes by, they become less attached to her, too. But I would say that even then they remain more attached to her.

 

[Chicken-lovebirdchihuahua]

Thanks both of you!

 

[Chicken-lovebirdchihuahua]

All 3 of you I mean

 

[MountaingateHomestead]

The best way to have a chick imprint on you is to start clicker training. We raised a Buff Orpington rooster and it was extremely friendly and would follow me all over the house. I have a video on our Youtube Channel linked below https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSSsSBy85-NWPQbzT-61brQ?view_as=subscriber

 

[Chicken-lovebirdchihuahua]

Aww cool