This just happens to be one of the questions we get asked every once in a while.<\/p>\n
Tame chickens can make very good family pets.\u00a0 They are relatively low maintenance, and people generally enjoy spending a few minutes with their hens during their day.<\/p>\n
However, smaller chickens (such as bantams) are recommended for small children because they are usually gentler and more docile.\u00a0 There’s quite a bit more that I can say about this, but I don’t want to bore you too much.
\nLeading from our above discussion … another question a new chicken owner might ask is …<\/p>\n
How do you tame a chicken?<\/strong><\/p>\n Again, a great question. In general, most chickens are “tamed” by regular human contact from the moment they are hatched.<\/p>\n It is possible to tame a “wild” chicken, but it does take a lot of time and effort. For example, gradually get closer to them while feeding, and during the coming days \/ weeks, gradually move to hand feeding them, and then patting them during feeding, and so on.<\/p>\n All the best, This just happens to be one of the questions we get asked every once in a while. Tame chickens can make very good family pets.\u00a0 They are relatively low maintenance, and people generally enjoy spending a few minutes with their hens during their day. However, smaller chickens (such as bantams) are recommended for small children … Continue reading Do chickens make good family pets?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raising-chickens","tag-tame-chickens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickennews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKelson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"