Tale of first-time chicken keeper's catching escaped chickens & photos

[ella&clara]

Hi folks
I thought you might enjoy my tale of catching my escaped chickens for the first time. Rounding them up was easy when they were babies, but they got fast in a hurry! Just follow the link below.

http://maryannscountrygarden.blogspot.com/2011/04/catching-chickens.html

 

[AnaD]

Chickens are dumb but not so dumb that they can't learn a few "tricks". One trick I taught mine was free range time is over when I say "Run, run, run, run!" and pick up my trusty 8' long bamboo poll for herding. Everyone runs ahead of me in the general direction the run and a little poll guidence gets them right in quick.

 

[ella&clara]

Good idea! Mine have definitely learned to come to the fence when I approach (I keep them in electronet that I move) to look for food from me, so that might work too.

 

[wildorchid053]

mine are trained to come to the shaking of the tin pail with scratch in it.. just call ... here chick, chick, chick and it is a free for all to get inside the coop and run .

 

[Larkspur88]

My coop isn't built so mine go into dog kennels in my garage. They too are trained to come to chick and to the sight of their white food cup. At night they huddle against the side door to my garage and I can open it and 11 chickens run in and I put them away in there appropriate cage/tub