How to raise/make friendly and tame backyard chickens

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  • @destinationaddictionsamsar7894
    @destinationaddictionsamsar7894 4 роки тому +49

    I actually spent some time taming some teenage chicks that were on our farm. I could call them and they'll come running to me, definitely food and protecting them from the other chickens really helped. While feeding them I could have them lay on my lap and be scratched.😊
    If you want them to get better at not freaking out when held is to hold them right (having their wings tucked against your chest and arm and supporting them with your other hand) and only letting them go once they calm down.

  • @frederickschwartz1873
    @frederickschwartz1873 5 років тому +48

    Haven’t had chicks in a while but I always loved to put in live crickets and watch them go crazy . 🤠 Love how mixed your flock is....

  • @mrs8792
    @mrs8792 5 років тому +49

    My chickens call me, because they want fresh blackberries or raspberries 🤣

  • @jsmythib
    @jsmythib 4 роки тому +20

    The key to cool chickens is neck rubs as chicks. :) In groups of them you will quickly notice who gives you the one eye the most. Cheers :)

  • @rayndrop2249
    @rayndrop2249 3 роки тому +5

    I give my chickens compost, and when they first moved out of the brooder and into the coop, I would kneel down, and give them treats while they were sitting on my lap. Sometimes i'll walk into their coop and they would jump on my shoulder. I raised them from 3 days old. While they were in the brooder, I would stick my hand in with some chick started and make the sound. They literally SWARMED my hand whenever I did that. I'm so proud now that they started laying a couple of days ago.

  • @flowerbabyliz
    @flowerbabyliz 4 роки тому +15

    Aww you’re a good chicken momma. Hopefully in the future I can have a big backyard so I can raise happy chickens. They’re sweethearts.

  • @debbieexcell5088
    @debbieexcell5088 4 роки тому +3

    I enjoyed this video. It was informative but it was also much more than that. It brought a smile to my face and filled me with ...contentment. ❤️

  • @tarar297
    @tarar297 2 роки тому +1

    We got 1 Turken and are so surprised how loving she is so far! She's a talker 🥰

    • @rh5022
      @rh5022 2 роки тому +1

      I have 2 Turkey and they are smart
      They appear to be figuring things out. They call me they imitate the sounds that I make.

  • @OldIronVideo
    @OldIronVideo 4 роки тому +23

    4:32 attacks

  • @Eva-eb2lm
    @Eva-eb2lm 4 роки тому +14

    I'm getting 6 chicks this week and I dont want to get attacked lol. I used to have 4 they were very friendly and I thought them to not eat plants in the garden but only bugs so I know chickens can be nice:3

    • @Sophia-zq2fq
      @Sophia-zq2fq 4 роки тому +2

      Potato Tater they really don’t attack unless it’s a rooster but not all do that

    • @jsmythib
      @jsmythib 4 роки тому +1

      Like most animals, you will get back what you give :) The rare bad apple is always good in soup. Cheers!

  • @75blackviking
    @75blackviking Рік тому

    They are SO CUTE!!! My babies get lots of treats.

  • @scar4771
    @scar4771 4 роки тому +92

    Wait ur telling me chickens like scramble eggs!? 🥚 😨

    • @sophieschlueter6568
      @sophieschlueter6568 4 роки тому +3

      24rejectionhotline I was thinking the same thing!!!

    • @Eva-eb2lm
      @Eva-eb2lm 4 роки тому +7

      💀

    • @theakwardone300
      @theakwardone300 4 роки тому +27

      Yeah often chickens are cannibals as well, my grandma had chickens that when a comrade died they ate the corpse. Also egg shells are healthy for them to eat helps give back what they lost laying the egg

    • @mollytov8407
      @mollytov8407 4 роки тому +3

      Chickens are a cannibalistic type of bird

    • @jadevans320
      @jadevans320 4 роки тому +8

      Yes, I mean that’s what they ate inside the EGG

  • @donnabernskoetter1931
    @donnabernskoetter1931 Рік тому

    How do you keep your grass so green and beautiful? My chickens annihilate my chicken yard so fast! Do you move them around?

  • @lynzbvb
    @lynzbvb 3 роки тому +2

    My 4 week old Sizzle chicks always run away. They freak out and try to run and fly away when I pick them up and won't take food from my hand. I've had them since 2.5 weeks. I don't understand. If I hold them for 10 minutes they might chill and go to sleep but they are so terrified for the most part.

  • @Watchoutforsnakez
    @Watchoutforsnakez 4 роки тому +2

    I have a chicken tractor that I must reach into to tend them. It’s scary for them and I cant hand feed them easily stooping over. I think that they are about 6 weeks old. Is it too late? Will they calm down if I rearrange their home so I can attract them to me? I have to chase them down to grab one and that is not pleasant. Plus their mom attacks me.

  • @mrymidgley
    @mrymidgley 5 років тому +6

    Adorable

  • @mohamedrafi2071
    @mohamedrafi2071 3 роки тому +1

    I have two chicks that when I make a weird noise they come to me and stare at my hand to see what treat I have🥰

  • @patriciastaton6182
    @patriciastaton6182 5 років тому +3

    Thanks Sonya 💐

  • @olganadeem3535
    @olganadeem3535 4 роки тому

    They love your hand!

  • @firstlast9813
    @firstlast9813 Рік тому +2

    My 5 day old chicks run to the other side of the pen when my hands get close. I'm gonna try this

  • @MrBrody3
    @MrBrody3 4 роки тому +2

    So we our chicks (1st time chick “parents”) Everyday I put on some older shorts and sit with them in their brooder “pen” to get them used to humans, they jump all over me and really enjoy their chest and belly pet. We have one tiny Ameracana (I think she’s a bantam, not supposed to be but she’s so little compared to the others) she loves to curl up in my hand and sleep. I fell asleep rocking her the other day and she was happier than a pig in poo. I’m hoping they’ll be friendly with people & I’m thinking of making the little one a therapy chicken. They’re really enjoyable, funny and entertaining. If anyone has any tips for me, I’m all ears. Thank you!!

  • @armandodiaz67
    @armandodiaz67 4 роки тому +1

    My chicks are 7 weeks old. I have 9 Road Island and 6 Sultans. I was hand feeding them, but stopped because I don't want them to grow up thinking its ok to peck at my hand. I going to start giving them a call, for them to recognize. The Road Islands are less "skittish" while the Sultans are just plain chicken and are always avoiding me.

  • @PinkieJoJo
    @PinkieJoJo 3 роки тому +1

    Mine would never let me have my hand in there like that even at that age. They are now 6 weeks old and they freak if we even come near them. They also fight with each other all of the time and Ive already had to move one out because they picked all of his head feathers off and he was left bald and bleeding.

    • @jonislow
      @jonislow Рік тому +1

      Dang, bald and bleeding is a rough spot to be in 😂😂

  • @berrylanding8764
    @berrylanding8764 4 роки тому

    I love the chicken's 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🦄🦓🦓🦓🦓🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🐈🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🦓🐅🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🍒🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍅🥑🥑🍆

  • @theoutofdoors5083
    @theoutofdoors5083 Рік тому +4

    I've been trying this everyday for weeks, they're just terrified of me. I have Buff Orpingtons and Easter eggers. I hand feed them, after awhile a few will come and pick a piece and run off into the corner but most of them wont even do that, they just cower in the corner. They go absolutely insane if I try to pick them up or hold them to. It really sucks. I hope they get a little better as adults.

    • @crystalo3550
      @crystalo3550 Рік тому

      Mine to😔

    • @crystalo3550
      @crystalo3550 Рік тому +2

      Mine only got worse 😪 I didn't spend enough time i was told and u have to seriously keep spending as much time as possible and even when they get older and they like a routine

  • @725WS
    @725WS Рік тому

    The brown one looks like a Rhode Island red

  • @dodgersfnshepard8673
    @dodgersfnshepard8673 4 роки тому +2

    Live or dried meal worms? My chick's are about a week old. Isa browns & 1 golden comet

    • @iamaperson5028
      @iamaperson5028 4 роки тому +1

      I got 3 ISA browns yesterday and they things ever! They let us pet them and even jump into our laps! Its adorable 😊

  • @mohamedrafi2071
    @mohamedrafi2071 3 роки тому

    Literally all videos in taming chicks just be like feed’em and they’ll become ur best buddies

  • @sahil21286
    @sahil21286 3 роки тому +1

    I give them so much food on their childhood now they are adult now
    And they have to be my dinner 🍽

  • @mickyjunior2887
    @mickyjunior2887 3 роки тому +1

    Feeding them with ur hands really help. They'll recognize u.

  • @luke6148
    @luke6148 4 роки тому

    Which breed are the two grey chicks, exactly?

  • @hellsingmongrel
    @hellsingmongrel 4 роки тому

    What's the cool black and grey chick with the stripe down its back? It's such a cutey! ;w;

  • @ibbysadventures550
    @ibbysadventures550 3 роки тому

    Do chicks and chicken carry diseases? Does it infect human if you touch it?

    • @PunkWad
      @PunkWad 3 роки тому +4

      I mean, no? It's best to wash your hands before and after touching them- but that's with every animal. Are they wild??? Cuz that's a different story.

  • @holleyrae8132
    @holleyrae8132 3 роки тому

    ive got two babies that wont sleep or settle down unless they are in my hand

  • @chrisbeber9177
    @chrisbeber9177 3 роки тому +1

    I’m curious. So I just got chickens for my son. They are in a coop now. How do you go to free range? Do they lay their eggs in a house, or do they lay their eggs and you have to hunt for them. Also at night to they go back to their house on their own or to you have to call them to go to bed? Sorry, I’m just trying to soak up as much as I can so when my 6yr old asks I don’t say “I don’t know”. But he has learned to read slot more as we read how to take care of the birds. He’d prefer to watch a utube video instead though lol

    • @crystalo3550
      @crystalo3550 Рік тому

      I built a coop for them with nesting boxes and they did on their own go in nesting boxes and laid butci also have a closed in run because we have alot of stray cats but I don't leave it closed anymore and they still go to where they started at on their perch even if u don't do a coop with nesting boxes u should have a perch or else they don't sleep well u don't want that it interfere with their laying because they will be tired and u don't want them to be stressed that 2 can mess up their laying and they naturally like to perch high to be away from predators it makes them feel safe and they get a good rest and they can't see good at night in the dark they will appreciate a light u can always do solar powered ones the perch preferably mine love the branch I cut down its about 2in a half round I smooth it out and chicken need that because they sleep laying on their breast bone it important they get a good sleep now if u don't want to worry about building a coop and nesting boxes I would recommend milk crates with some shavings and u can hang them up of the ground on the fence and I would cover them on top so they feel comfortable and safe while laying these are all just suggestions it is what I've learned i recently became chicken owner myself u should lookup what do chicken like or need and u can look up nesting boxes

    • @crystalo3550
      @crystalo3550 Рік тому

      Sorry so u do have a coop they will on their own go back to where they sleep if they been closed in their for a while but I do recommend a perch they will be happy it helps them feel safe as I said

    • @crystalo3550
      @crystalo3550 Рік тому

      If u make the nesting boxes and they lay their eggs else where they have fake eggs that you can put in the nesting boxes if u decide to make some and I would put them in the coop or connected to it or when prefer them to lay at id keep the fake ones and then show them those nesting boxes with the eggs in it I can be wrong but it is what I understood when looking up everything possible when I first gottem

    • @crystalo3550
      @crystalo3550 Рік тому

      There is nothing wrong with asking not everyone knows what they need or like I didn't and I still am learning i just recently learned about a prolapse vent not good for them another thing Purina no good do not feed them Purina or dunmar i think it is u can go to off grid with Doug and Stacy and they dug into things and they explain what is happening there but its stopping chicken from laying and I can say first hand its true

  • @amyramos4886
    @amyramos4886 4 роки тому +7

    Go turkens! :D I got two of them and their sweeties^^

  • @dianeveilleux6452
    @dianeveilleux6452 4 роки тому +1

    WHY DO YOU RAISE SO MANY BANTAMS?

  • @mweber5459
    @mweber5459 3 роки тому

    Are earthworms ok to feed?

    • @lillywilke573
      @lillywilke573 3 роки тому

      I mean I don't know if chicks can have them. But my free range adult chickens eat them a lot wen foraging around the yard and in the woods. We haven't had a problem with it

  • @arieltyson18
    @arieltyson18 Рік тому +1

    Scrambled eggs…. You want me to feed Pecker head his cousin?? 😭

  • @tphan5024
    @tphan5024 4 роки тому

    There so cute!!!!!

  • @Ro34343
    @Ro34343 4 роки тому +1

    Cool..

  • @alyssadyer4096
    @alyssadyer4096 4 роки тому +1

    Is it too late to start this for chicks that are a bit older. I have a chick who imprinted on a friend of mine and kept coming to her for food. They were feral chickens but where I’m from all feral chickens are descendants of chickens that were previously owned. So they rely on humans now so trying to release this one wouldn’t work as they keep coming back.
    I guess now is just to see if I can get it to be okay with some handling

    • @driedmangoes
      @driedmangoes 4 роки тому

      make sure they can trust you first! some chickens just don’t like being handled but enjoy sitting next to me and eating out of my hand.

    • @crystalo3550
      @crystalo3550 Рік тому

      No it will be more challenging but not to late but it will take time u have to spend lots of time with them

  • @areebasameen2499
    @areebasameen2499 4 роки тому

    I haved pet chicken but they died but I have a big boy chicken it is soooo friendlyyyyy

  • @pomypaws3134
    @pomypaws3134 3 роки тому +1

    All I did was play with them follow them and pet and feed them and talk to them.

  • @pencilRC1
    @pencilRC1 4 роки тому

    I like chicken

  • @bulbasaurbrutal5137
    @bulbasaurbrutal5137 3 місяці тому

    ...Scrambled eggs?! O_O

  • @thecherryredtomato_xy838
    @thecherryredtomato_xy838 4 роки тому

    Thx thos relly help't

  • @creamylinguine7028
    @creamylinguine7028 4 роки тому +3

    Feeds chickens scrambled eggs

  • @jeffgoesrandom4217
    @jeffgoesrandom4217 4 роки тому

    I raised my chickens from eggs... they are tame and friendly to me just by raising them... I was wondering why there are more backyard chickens and feed. I did a video investigation on feed and chickens: ua-cam.com/video/IeoJ8l0-8RQ/v-deo.html
    -Jeff Goes Random

  • @bakedcrusaders2845
    @bakedcrusaders2845 2 роки тому

    wtf are cheesy grits? i need a treat for my chicks that they would love

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    @laitulip5026 2 роки тому +2

    JESUS IS KING

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    @norhafizahyunus5635 Рік тому

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