What a welcome you get when you go down the garden! All the chickens rush over making little coo-ing, persuading sounds, to get me to give them some goodies! Usually they get a few chopped up grapes, some greens or a very few dried meal worms. The evening treat is some mixed corn which I usually scatter in the run, together with mixed grit, so they can forage for a while before bed time. Here, though, they are keen to take it from my hand. I've been offering them all their food - apart from the layers' pellets - by hand to get them used to me. After they've had a scattering of corn they don't take any notice of me at all, even though I pass their run many times afterwards on the evening plant patrol. I take my tender plants indoors to the dining table each evening from the cold greenhouse and back out again in the morning. Scratch time is the only time I'm ignored passing the run!
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It sounds like the Rock Chicks have done a very good job of getting you trained quickly and effortlessly!
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