If feeding and watering is very convenient - Maybe we neglect this?

[TennesseeTruly]

I actually look forward to spending time interacting with my chickens daily. Its part of the day where my grandson and I bond. We feed and water the chickens together. We toss some more pine shavings in the coop when needed. We sit and watch chicken tv for about an hour or so every morning and the same in the evening.

Sometimes in the middle of the afternoon we'll take them down some treats. We're very hands on people so we'd rather do everything ourselves and yes, I've hugged my hens today. (The ones that would let me anyway.) LOL

Laurie

 

[hearthnsoul]

I have to attest I call it chicken therapy. My mind is always on the go go go, but after I started with chickens, I know what it is to feel peaceful. If I chase a duck, it runs,..if I am trying to fix a feeder or fill the waterer they are pulling at my clothes,..If I try and hold a chicken, it becomes annoyed but if I am sitting trying to renew the bedding I look like a darn scarecrow covered in chicks.
I can't beleive for the first time in my life I am really in the moment,..not doing one thing, thinking about another. Let me tell you this morning at 6:30 am while I am running through the woods in my pajamas with one shoe gone, after my escape artist goat, I surely wasn't thinking about faxes I had to send out, or balancing my checkbook. I love my animals and all that entails, even when I gripe there is a full feeling in my heart and an empty mind following it.

 

[Quack Shack]

Nicely said. Going back to the simple to make sense of all the rest.

 

[Beekissed]

I must confess....I do not hug any chickens! I let them be to just be chickens. I enjoy watching them just being chickens. I don't have any of the aforementioned conveniences available and I am pretty involved with first hand caring for my chickens but I never feel the need to hug them.

I like them being a little wild....it serves them better as free rangers to be constantly on the alert and attuned to probable danger.

They do follow me everywhere but mainly as the "food bringer" and not so much from affection. I'm content with that, though, as I don't really feel the need to get affection from my chickens. My dogs and cats give me plenty of that.

So...... am I the only one who does not feel the need to tame and coddle their chickens into lap birds?

 

[Sjisty]

Beekissed - it sounds like you're the only normal one out of all of us!

I have some chickens who are just chickens, which is a good thing because when I sit down my lap is too small for the dozen or so others who are trying to jump up for a cuddle! My one favorite, Domino, is so attuned to me that as soon as I open the gate she comes running from whatever part of the yard she is in to be the first one held.