Scared Chicks

[USMCChick]

How do I get the chicks to not be afraid of me every time I reach in the brooder to fill the feed and water? My adult hens still run away from me but gather when I have cracked corn.

 

[C. Conner]

How do I get the chicks to not be afraid of me every time I reach in the brooder to fill the feed and water? My adult hens still run away from me but gather when I have cracked corn.

I mashed the yolk from a boiled egg and started feeding them from my hand. It took several days but now they all run to me. I had read of someone else doing this and it worked. I don't do it more than once a day with only one boiled egg yolk.

 

[HayDiddlesHens]

Feeding them yummy tomatoes and other foods by hand works every time!

 

[usmcpilot06]

Feeding them yummy tomatoes and other foods by hand works every time!

if you start feeding them trerats, will they then need some grit.
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[HayDiddlesHens]

if you start feeding them trerats, will they then need some grit.
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I don't give mine grit, but it wouldn't hurt if you were to lay some out for them.

 

[C. Conner]

How do I get the chicks to not be afraid of me every time I reach in the brooder to fill the feed and water? My adult hens still run away from me but gather when I have cracked corn.

While my girls were still in their brooder I gave them only egg yolk as a treat to get them use to my hand. Now I have them in the inbetween coop ( little girls all by themselves next to the big girls pen) I still only give them their chick feed and a little scrambled egg. They have sand available for their grit and whatever they peck off the ground. They are now 8 weeks old. They still run to me when I get close to their pen.