Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

[kattabelly]

It's quite difficult to get a chicken off your head in anything but an ungainly manner and possible injury.

I'm new to shoulder chickens but I've been finding it relatively easy to get that barred rock pullet off my head - it's when she goes round down the back of my neck where I can't reach her that the fun starts She and the Shetlands from the same hatch will already let me pick them up with only some minor fussing, and I think making a point of doing that regularly in sight of all the others is rubbing off on them too. This was the more skittish of the barred rock cockerels tonight, and one of the Shetlands who happily stayed sat on my leg after being scooped up with no fuss at all.

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• kattabelly
• Yesterday at 3:35 PM

Barred rock cockerel B at 8 weeks old

All my head torches have a red light option and I'm already in the habit of using them around animals in the dark.

Thanks for the detailed reply

 

[kattabelly]

Few more photos because they're looking bonnie now at 8 weeks old.

Norfolk Grey closest to my foot here - the others are all just over three weeks younger but catching up in size. She's splitting her time between hanging out with her hatch-mates and the younger ones now.

(They do have a big waterer but obviously the distraction water I put out to avoid any of us breaking our necks when I refill it tastes better)