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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2xEmT0E:thesacredreznor replied to your video “This video ended when a barred rock chick leapt up to peck the phone….”
you are making friends!
We are Buddies now.
Farmsister picked up the box o chicks at the post office today, and said when she was unloading them she had a small cohort of little black chicks attending her carefully. She’d worried that they’d be there to pick on the smaller chicks, but she said it was pretty obvious that really, they were there to see if she had any treats. They just stood in her way while she unloaded the new chicks, and pecked her hands.
Nobody has hassled the new baby chicks at all. THere’s not a ton of size difference between the week-old and day-old chicks, at all, but there’s a huge behavioral difference– some because the older ones are more advanced and have learned to jump and flutter and such, but a lot because the older ones have learned from me giving them treats and respond differently to humans because they’re not operating on instinct the same way.
Also the day-old chicks can’t stay awake very long at all and keep falling asleep where they stand. The week-old ones still do that a bit, but not as much. I could tell the new ones because they couldn’t keep up with the milling around the older ones do, and kept just nodding off mid-lap.
you are making friends!
We are Buddies now.
Farmsister picked up the box o chicks at the post office today, and said when she was unloading them she had a small cohort of little black chicks attending her carefully. She’d worried that they’d be there to pick on the smaller chicks, but she said it was pretty obvious that really, they were there to see if she had any treats. They just stood in her way while she unloaded the new chicks, and pecked her hands.
Nobody has hassled the new baby chicks at all. THere’s not a ton of size difference between the week-old and day-old chicks, at all, but there’s a huge behavioral difference– some because the older ones are more advanced and have learned to jump and flutter and such, but a lot because the older ones have learned from me giving them treats and respond differently to humans because they’re not operating on instinct the same way.
Also the day-old chicks can’t stay awake very long at all and keep falling asleep where they stand. The week-old ones still do that a bit, but not as much. I could tell the new ones because they couldn’t keep up with the milling around the older ones do, and kept just nodding off mid-lap.
