jennym Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Hey everyone, My lovely chooks are settling in nicely now, and we let them out when we're in the garden to roam around. Belle and Pippa are still quite skittish with us but Lucy is certainly not! She follows us around like a puppy-dog, hoping for sweetcorn. If she is on the other side of the garden all we have to do is hold up the treat bowl, or a cob of corn, and she comes charging full pelt OH says she looks prehistoric when she runs like that, he calls her dino-chicken I was sitting eating my lunch today with the chooks' treat-bowl on my lap and she just hopped up onto my knee and started feasting! Now, they've all gotten used to eating out of our hands but no way would the other two jump up on my lap. She is definitely the more placid and friendly chook - becoming a favourite ( don't tell the others!) She also doesn't seem to pay any attention to the posturing the other two do - they are definitely trying to sort out the pecking order, though happily it's all been just for show so far. I think is winning. But Lucy doesn't even care - they don't posture with her or bully her, and she doesn't do it to them either. It's like they just accept that she's not bothered about it all. Too funny. I wonder if there's a market for a chicken behavioural psychologist. I'd love to be the chook-whisperer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfer_chicken Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 My chicken, Lily , seems to think she's a human! She will jump up and sit next to us on the chair if we eat outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekymonkey200 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 funny how they develop little personalities, Mildred was really shy when we first got her, she literally ran away from us the first day we got her, slipped out of the run and legged it into next doors hedge. Maude was much more timid and shy. Now Mildred is a mamas girl and gets upset with me if I leave her free ranging and she cant see me . she makes a terrible squawk and comes running down the garden- normally once she's located me she potters back off to what she was doing but sometimes she stands at my feet till i pick her up and carry her back to maude . if i continue to ignore her she starts tearing up my seedlings! i love to hear her little pitter patter behind me in the garden. she is silly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucklamp Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 We have often said that our is more like a dog than a chicken. She will walk at heel and even chase after us if she thinks that she will get a reward. I'm not sure that you can get a leash to take a chicken for a walk but it would be worth it to see the reaction of other people. Sadly we haven't managed to train her to bring back sticks that we throw ... yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daxigirl Posted June 2, 2011 Share Posted June 2, 2011 Moomin likes to think that she's a dog and slip in the backdoor behind them in the hope that I'll not notice. She's now conquered her fear of the flapping fly screen (you know one of those multi-coloured strips thing) and is back to her old tricks. Trouble is she gives herself away if I've not noticed she's come in with a little announcing 'waahh'. I think it's really cute with the exception that she is a squishy pooper and tends to have a skiddy down her backside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolimac Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 My oldie May wanders everywhere with our 16 month old golden retriever brothers ,she even tries to pinch thier raw hide chews off them.(the chews are at least 3 times bigger than her).Every teatime she comes and sits in the kitchen next to the cooker while i'm doing the tea ..May is more like a dog than my dogs !!! just waiting for the dogs to start clucking next.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
