You're my Mom?

Question

One time in 1999 when I went to the California Science center with a friend and her mom and my older sister, there was a chicken exibit. On the incubator side one chick was almost through hatching. Eventually it got out and I was the first thing it saw!

For some reason when we walked away from the exibit it starting chirping and it didn't stop until I went back and it saw my face again.

I'm starting to think he or she thought I was it's mother. I've heard some birds assume you're their mother if you're the first thing they see.

Is this true? if so, has anyone ever had a scenario similar to mine?

Answer 1

i am a guy how could i be your mom ?

Answer 2

Chicks that hatch in areas like that wind up leading a confused life. We have owned chickens for... fifteen years now. Studies have been done that have discovered that birds imprint. There was a man from Scotland who got marsh goslings imprinted on a cinder block (poor baby geese). So that chick that you saw has imprinted on people. As it grows, it will be sexually attracted to people and will consider them the 'flock' it belongs to (I had a chicken with a natural deformity that I named Groucho who followed me around for years until he died). If it should lay any eggs and raise them itself, the issue will be corrected through the following generations. Don't worry that it's traumatized and crying for you, though. It sees plenty of people every day and has food and water and the other babies to associate with.

Answer 3

am i able to assert i comprehend i'm a competent Grandma of 9 even as... i comprehend each and every of the words to all the Barney Songs, i comprehend that Bakugan and Tech Deck Dudes are each and every of the craze for 5-10 365 days previous boys, i comprehend the thanks to play Mario Kart on WII, i am going to do Magic Card tricks, I outfitted a Marble Maze that had 1000 products, I save a drawer finished of batteries and a small screw motive force for my toys, and that i merely offered myself a clean rocker for my grandson to be (due the twenty third of March - 6 days) and ought to't wait to airborne dirt and dust off the cobwebs of each and every lullabye i comprehend (first new child grandchild in 5 years). i'd really spend a sunny afternoon planting flowers with my granddaughter than some thing else in the international!

Answer 4

Chicks, ducks, and other birds will imprint on the first thing they see and think it is their care taker. Our cocker spaniel has to take care of 7 ducks one sping until the mother duck decided to do her job and took them away. But they would still follow the dog around the yard all summer because he was their first mother.

Answer 5

when a chick hatches from a egg the first living thing it sees it will think it is its mum.When i was at a farm baby chickens hatched from eggs and started following me around the place.At the same time the parent chicken was going crazy.

Answer 6

Follow Up With It.

Answer 7

Some birds like geese and ducks will imprint on people, they will think you are their parent. As long as it has someone to take care of it, it will be fine.

Answer 8

i've heard that too and one of my fav movies about this scenario is fly away home. about a girl who finds geese eggs and they eventually hatch and follow her everywhere

Answer 9

very possible....had a small banty chicken and put fertilized leg-horn chicken eggs under her ....was too funny these huge white chickens following this little black hen they out grew her in a matter of weeks

Answer 10

not quite, i was at a pond, with a loaf of bread, a goose ate a piece, so i moved farther away, eventually it followed me home. my dad came home for lunch, and the goose crawled under his car. so when he was ready to go back to work, he yells at me to take the goose back

Answer 11

Chick was only churping because it was hungry and wanted something to eat.