Training Chickens to Demonstrate Flight

[centrarchid]

I am pretty sure they would fight. We will select a pullet from another brood due to hatch next week. Mother of that brood will be more conducive to rearing trainable offspring. If goes as planned they will be an operational pair for the experiments to come.

 

[azygous]

Well, we won't need to wait long for the drama to unfold. Chickens are good at keeping a fast pace in revealing the story line.

 

[centrarchid]

Plenty of drama to be sure. My three year old daughter is getting into the training where the chicks are allowing her to pick them up. Edgar allows same although he is scratchy because of spurs. He is now flying up on my shoulders to crow before promptly flying down to crow in another location. Crowing next to your ears hurts.

 

[centrarchid]

Daughter trying to handle chicks.

Daughter clucking.

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

You missed purpose of this thread.

If you want chickens to fly, they do it on their own when spooked. Take a running charge at flock and they will take flight if they don't have a wing clipped. They'll be in your trees and everywhere else, and refuse to coop themselves and if not eaten by a predator, go feral.

 

[centrarchid]

If you want chickens to fly, they do it on their own when spooked. Take a running charge at flock and they will take flight if they don't have a wing clipped. They'll be in your trees and everywhere else, and refuse to coop themselves and if not eaten by a predator, go feral.

Still missing it.

 

[centrarchid]

Note videos below. They are far from perfect. I want to be able have under better seeing conditions. Part of problem is color of birds relative to background. Another limitation is recorder, especially in terms of image quality and range it provides good imagery.

 

[centrarchid]

Edgar did not want to step over hot-wire to reach me so he hesitated for a moment before launching up and over it to land on phone I was using to film him. That caused me to drop everything. Daughter that is was cool he made me bobble things about before literally tossing camera.

 

[aart]

Haha....well, he showed what he's got!!

 

[centrarchid]

I like to record how flies up on my shoulders to crow. He really belts out well. He is also really active right now running about chasing bugs and the like.