Kidnapping a chick!

[ButtonquailGirl14]

More likely just of normal mentality.

 

[sourland]

Well, I may have been wrong. Who am I to judge ?

Happy birthday, @PouleChick.

 

[Cyprus]

Well considering the OP has admitted to actively harassing me, I feel I am entitled to my opinion.

 

[Alexandra33]

Ah, well....I'm content with "abnormality" in the eyes of those around me. This world needs all types.

~Alex

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Well considering the OP has admitted to actively harassing me, I feel I am entitled to my opinion.

how did he? I do get a bit mad when people just waste my time...

 

[Cyprus]

how did he? I do get a bit mad when people just waste my time...

It's in a PM. Don't wanna get much into it.

 

[Mathew23vs37]

Juuuuuust kidding.

I raised some BBR Old English Bantams from chicks and they were very tamed. They would follow me looking for treats. They would come charging to the back door when I call them. One of the hens raised a brood and they were all males. They grew up skittish and mean. I kept one of the roosters. He will eat out of my hand, but if I run out of food he will walk away or fight me. I work with him as much as I can, and he is tamed but not like the ones I raised from chick. I still like him even though he don't like to be held. Use meal worms to entice the little chick to be your friend.

 

[mosander]

I plan to kidnap a chick, a lone chick..... you see, he was the only leftover egg that Mother Hen sat on and hatched while his siblings were all hatched by yours truly in an incubator. And those that I've hatched, they are all very tame, would run up to me and everything with no worries at all. The little one, who I call, "Loner" is different. He's about 3 or 4 weeks younger than the one's I've hatched and was reared by his mother so he's very wary of my presence and won't come near me at all. I plan to kidnap him and bring him in for a few days or so to get acquainted, and hopefully tame that little misfit...... do you think I should? Or just let the little booger be? I'm just afraid that if I don't try to tame him now, when he gets older he'll stick to his ways of avoiding me.

 

[mosander]

Just wait until he/she discovers bread. As the chick matures, he will want friends. Definitely do not separate him at this stage. My broody hen hatched 2 chicks and got off the rest of the eggs. I put them in the incubator and it was six days after the first hatch. Put under mom but she was not very kind. Put him back in the incubator for one day. Put him back under momma chicken at 10 pm. Fully accepted and doing well. Did have to build ramp so he could get in the nest box. Can't wait til all old enough to drink from nipples instead water stand which they mess up daily. Good luck with single hatch chickie!