POLISH THREAD Talk about your Polish and post pics of your Polish

[Illia]

It really can vary. Non-hatchery Polish? I wouldn't count on much until sometime after 24 weeks. I've got some girls who were born a week before Easter. . . Still waiting on them.


Actually two were born sometime in March, still waiting on them too.

 

[cmsdvm]

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I have a small flock of buff-laced bantams from Marsha Peterson's lines. They are lower maintenance- you are so right. You can just dust them off after they've been free-ranging and they can go off to a show. Crests are smaller and tighter, too. They are a bit flightier than the White-Crested birds though, especially if I let the hens raise them.

 

[Chicken Chickita]

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I love them!

 

[blkpoodles]

does anyone's polish go up to their human? my guy runs off, not too far tho, he stays in the yard, once he's caught he's fine, he's 4 month old, so he's still young, and he lets me do anything to him without putting up a fight

 

[ultra1classic]

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Most of my hens come up to me but only 2 of my roos. When i give them their daily treat (especially in my growout pen) i bend down and spread their treat out in front of me. Seems to help teach them the giant coming at them is friendly and usually has goodies for them!

 

[Fiddlehead]

Here is my WC Blue Cockeral. He is for sale!!

 

[Chicken Chickita]

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We had one little polish that would run up to us and want to be picked up. If you didn't pick her up right away she would stand on our shoes. She would stand there, on our shoes, and chirp loudly until we did pick her up. Unfortunately, she was killed by a hawk two weeks ago and my husband is totally devastated. He won't go sit by the coop anymore because he says that its so obvious that there isn't a tiny polish hen chirping on his shoe.

I just ordered 4 bantam polish from Diane Spizak and requested that she send her friendliest chickens. They seem promising. I hold a couple every night so they get used to it and give them treats.

I also have a wonderful "special needs" polish chicken - the one I use for my avatar pic. I adopted her from someone who couldn't keep a "house chicken." She can't walk and sits in a dog bed in the master bedroom. I carry her around when I'm home. When I walk out of the room she cheeps and cheeps for me to come back. So, she doesn't come up to me but she makes it clear when she wants to be held or carried around.

I tend to pick up my chickens and hand feed them bread. About a quarter of them start being okay with my picking them up. About 1 in 10 start wanting me to pick them up. All of them associate me with cracked corn and run up to me whenever I go near the coop.

 

[blkpoodles]

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We had one little polish that would run up to us and want to be picked up. If you didn't pick her up right away she would stand on our shoes. She would stand there, on our shoes, and chirp loudly until we did pick her up. Unfortunately, she was killed by a hawk two weeks ago and my husband is totally devastated. He won't go sit by the coop anymore because he says that its so obvious that there isn't a tiny polish hen chirping on his shoe.

I just ordered 4 bantam polish from Diane Spizak and requested that she send her friendliest chickens. They seem promising. I hold a couple every night so they get used to it and give them treats.

I also have a wonderful "special needs" polish chicken - the one I use for my avatar pic. I adopted her from someone who couldn't keep a "house chicken." She can't walk and sits in a dog bed in the master bedroom. I carry her around when I'm home. When I walk out of the room she cheeps and cheeps for me to come back. So, she doesn't come up to me but she makes it clear when she wants to be held or carried around.

I tend to pick up my chickens and hand feed them bread. About a quarter of them start being okay with my picking them up. About 1 in 10 start wanting me to pick them up. All of them associate me with cracked corn and run up to me whenever I go near the coop.

i can hand feed my mo, i havent tried my older chicks yet, i should give that a try, they're 4 weeks old, they usually run, which im guessing cause im like a giant to them, my other breed of chickens come up to me, i actually got a video on my facebook of them running at me and im running away lol, is this breed usually skiddish around humans?

 

[blkpoodles]

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Most of my hens come up to me but only 2 of my roos. When i give them their daily treat (especially in my growout pen) i bend down and spread their treat out in front of me. Seems to help teach them the giant coming at them is friendly and usually has goodies for them!

i'll have to give that a try, thanks for the idea

 

[Illia]

ALL of my Polish run up to me and greet me. Some of them don't like being picked up, some do, and some demand some hands-on attention. If I don't offer a lap or something, they'll fly/scale up my leg or back for a shoulder-ride.

As said, treats and time are what works. Get him slowly used to you, you hands, your lap, etc.