How to Weigh a Cockerel

[rosemarythyme]

I am in awe of the way some people manage to sit birds on fence posts or other such objects and expect them to stay there for photo sessions. Mine aren't particularly afraid of me and when I was getting photos for this evaluation thread this morning the boys weren't panicking, but they have better things to do than be handled by humans.

My girls don't like being picked up, with 1 exception. But I'm always amazed that they'll just stay in place if I put them somewhere (my guess is they're too scared to move, so they stay put).

Case in point - I was weighing a bird on my porch to determine worming dosage, and of course I intelligently put the open bottle of Safeguard close by and she knocked it over. So I just put her on the porch floor while I went back and forth to get things to clean up, and after a few minutes when all was said and done, she was still standing on the spot I left her on.

 

[Mrs. K]

Wow - I have never had this. But I seldom handle mine. Catching them is a bit more of a rodeo.

Mrs K

 

[aart]

IIRC, it was @aart who taught me to take them off the roost at night for this sort of thing.

Am definitely a proponent and repeat the advise quite regularly.
Yeah, I don't chase chickens.

 

[3KillerBs]

Am definitely a proponent and repeat the advise quite regularly.
Yeah, I don't chase chickens.