[Mel]

I thought this was rather cool!

Watch animals being hypnotised!- Supernatural - BBC Earth

[Beewyched]

Clever, but very 

[Bionic]

Anyone tried it? 
I find that if I try to pick up one of my chickens they squat down and spread their wings a bit and stay motionless. I think this is to avoid predators i.e. thinking they are dead.
I don't usually let my dog off the lead when the chickens are out but he got out himself the other day and chased the chickens. They scattered so he chose just one and that one did as I said above. There was nothing to chase so the dog gave up and walked away. Very clever 
Sally

[plumseverywhere]

My dad used to do something that hypnotised chickens, so he said. I'll have to ask him - at the time I passed it off as a wind up but seeing that...

[in the hills]

Bionic - I think they stoop like that in anticipation of the cock bird treading them. 


If we have to treat any of our birds my daughter turns them on their sides and strokes them and they seem to go into a trance and very calm. She loves it    Rabbits do a similar thing when turned onto their backs - for nail trimming and the like.

[Womble]

I did some reading around when I first heard about this.. As the film says, some scientists think it's a response to a possible predator. I think this could be quite stressful for the bird, so go easy! That said, I'll confess I did try it on one of ours, but with only short-lived success!

I can 'hypnotise' the geese though. You hold it still on the ground, with its head under its wing, then repeatedly stroke gently from its neck, all the way down to its back. After about 30 seconds, you feel the goose relax and go to 'sleep'. The trick then is to see if you can back off without it waking up! 

[plumseverywhere]

Can I try it on a goat? 

[Bionic]

I'm going to try it on OH 

[Mel]

 

I'm going to try it on OH 

[Mammyshaz]

It works well at work with nervous rabbits for checking their teeth. I often use this method. Better than them being stressed and injuring themselves for examination when they rarely get human contact.

I haven't needed to use it on any of my own animals, they are so used to being handled and examined  I must have OCD when it comes to checking them regularly.

[Welshcob]

Somebody told me once that you can hypnotise chickens if you draw a straight line on the ground and put your chicken down on their chest and the beak pointing at the line. They seem to be so absorbed in staring at the line that they don't move for quite some time, in fact he said that if you don't move them they will stay there forever!!! 

Never tried but worth a shot for the comedy value 

[hughesy]

It'd be bloody handy if you could do it with pigs

[HelenVF]

I've done it on a chicken and a pheasant. Fairly easy to do. I also read that it can be quite stressful so only did it those two times.

Helen

[Lesley Silvester]

I'm going to try it on OH 

 

Can I try it on a goat? 

Would be handy if you could.  I could sweep the yard without three goats play-fighting round me.   

[doganjo]

We do it to pigeons and in France to Quail - so that the dogs have long enough to find and point but when flushed the birds wake up and fly.  Never heard it being stressful to them though,  top breeder/trainer in France, Patrick Morin (Keranlouan) keeps a few of them and they are used daily for training his youngsters.