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I am hoping to find some that are calm enough to be held by me or my kids. We have one that rides my shoulder. I have other breeds that let you hold them. We only have 4, so I just wanted 1 -2 more calm birds. I might just have to get a couple chicks in the spring.
Oh, sorry, I should have been more clear. It's not a breed thing or even an individual bird thing. It's an environment/training thing. It's not that I can't catch them because they're flighty, they're calm and docile birds, it's that I can't catch them because I've taught them not to be caught, basically. They would let you hold them once you got them home and treated them like pets. A few BYCers have taken birds home from here and had them for pets with no problem. There used to be a gal on here that updated every so often about two Light Brahmas that would sit on her boyfriend's lap. I had to catch those ones in the coop too. It's just that here our chickens are not our pets, so except for the couple here and there that the kids take a special liking to they simply don't get handled on a regular basis. They're calm, easy to handle and once they go into the coop at night they're even easy to catch, but during the day they free range and it's all big, wide and open out here; they're not used to being approached to be touched. They're used to being expected to stay out of the way so they move off when I walk towards them. It's just a training thing, it's what they've been brought up to understand from me. I walk toward them, they move off (because that's what I've taught them to do because I don't need them under my feet when I'm trying to get chores done), I keep walking towards them, they move off again, over and over until they're thoroughly confused as to why I'm chasing them around for no reason. In the coop where they know they don't have to move out of my way I can reach right over and pick them up. These ones just don't go in the coop anymore.
Oh okay...I get it....lol. How much would you want for a couple? Where are you located?
I am hoping to find some that are calm enough to be held by me or my kids. We have one that rides my shoulder. I have other breeds that let you hold them. We only have 4, so I just wanted 1 -2 more calm birds. I might just have to get a couple chicks in the spring.
Oh, sorry, I should have been more clear. It's not a breed thing or even an individual bird thing. It's an environment/training thing. It's not that I can't catch them because they're flighty, they're calm and docile birds, it's that I can't catch them because I've taught them not to be caught, basically. They would let you hold them once you got them home and treated them like pets. A few BYCers have taken birds home from here and had them for pets with no problem. There used to be a gal on here that updated every so often about two Light Brahmas that would sit on her boyfriend's lap. I had to catch those ones in the coop too. It's just that here our chickens are not our pets, so except for the couple here and there that the kids take a special liking to they simply don't get handled on a regular basis. They're calm, easy to handle and once they go into the coop at night they're even easy to catch, but during the day they free range and it's all big, wide and open out here; they're not used to being approached to be touched. They're used to being expected to stay out of the way so they move off when I walk towards them. It's just a training thing, it's what they've been brought up to understand from me. I walk toward them, they move off (because that's what I've taught them to do because I don't need them under my feet when I'm trying to get chores done), I keep walking towards them, they move off again, over and over until they're thoroughly confused as to why I'm chasing them around for no reason. In the coop where they know they don't have to move out of my way I can reach right over and pick them up. These ones just don't go in the coop anymore.
Oh okay...I get it....lol. How much would you want for a couple? Where are you located?
