but you don't need to put salt on their tails to catch them.
Chickens Are
Cute Little Carnivores
Copyright © 2005 by Lin Stone
Capitalizing on America's love affair with babies of any kind, these cute, cuddly little birds go "Cheep, Cheep, Cheep" all day long. They are easily caught and fit right into a child's small hand for closer scrutiny. Line that tender palm with millet and crunched corn and the little chick can keep the child fascinated for weeks on end.
It is easy to make a pet of a baby chick. With any encouragement at all, the little bird will follow a child -- indoors, and out. It will climb up into the child's lap, peer earnestly into the face, and express eternal friendship in fifty different ways. Chickens love to be stroked and petted, responding in songs more pleasing to the human ear than a cat's perfectly boring purr.
One reason baby chicks are so fascinating
is that they are so obviously,
BIRDS
but you don't need to put salt on their tails to catch
them.
Within two weeks of hatching, these little birds can take flights of a foot or more. Grown chickens in good practice and strong health can actually soar to heights of twelve feet when driven by panic, and they are not terrified of gliding down from housetops or tall tree limbs. Yet, give them any other opportunity of escape and these little birds will run; flight is their last resort.
Baby chicks don't need a mother to fend for them; though they obviously fare better when a loving mother is there.
