Lesson on why not to let flighty birds on your shoulder

[Chicks R Friends NOT Food]

Here's the story:
Ever since my hen started laying, she's become more outgoing. I can pet and sometimes hold her now. Usually my barred rock accompanies me while I feed everyone and let them out, and she eats from my hand as I walk, then we sit together for a while on the swing outside.

So this morning I decide to let Cloud my EE ride on my shoulder because she was being so good.
She scratched my shoulder up a bit, but I'm used to that by now, then she started sliding off backwards. I bent over so she wouldn't fall untill I grabbed her, because once she runs away she's impossible to catch. Well she saw my hand coming toward her and decided to fly from me. She left 2 6-inch gouges on my back that actually drew blood. Then I had to run around the woods for a while trying to catch her. At least I didn't get poison ivy. It wasn't so easy to clean my back though.

Moral of the story: I should've let her fall.

 

[Serrin]

Aaaah, we live and learn, don't we!?

 

[skeeter9]

You know, you'd think that at some point these silly little pea brains would figure out that we are not going to hurt them, and they would stop being so difficult!!!! Miss Cloud definitely needs a lecture on the etiquette of shoulder-riding!!!!