I have chickens and my hen protected me from a snake while I was taking a nap in the grass. She ran up to me and started making a noise to alert me of a snake slithering up towards me lol
@@babychicks3244 I don't eat chicken. I actually saved these chickens from being eaten, as well as saved from from disease and predators :/ You'd never realize how much someone could love a few chickens until you see me charge out of my mouse to rescue one getting attacked lol
@@babychicks3244 one doesnt need to be vegan or kill the chickens to keep chickens as food source. Keep them for eggs like i do. I might hunt but i could never kill an animal i raised. Thats why i have given up raising rabbits.
I had a few chickens, raised them from chicks. All hens. Had them for eggs. Everyday when I would come home form work, I would go out in the backyard and call, "chicky chicky chickies!" and they would all come waddling as fast as they could. I would feed them and then have a few beers out in the back with them. They were like dogs. Sometimes they'd jump up on my lap and just hang out and look at me, eye to eye. They will talk to you as well with their low light chirps. They were great gals! Great memories I will always cherish.
Aww man that was my favourite part of my chickens too. I loved it most when they'd chat to me in the same way old women sit around playing cards and chatting. They really see you as part of their family. They are so socially intelligent, but in a way that can be foreign to us just because bird brains are wired a bit differently to mammal brains.
I love chickens. We had one chicken years ago that my daughter “won” after a school egg hatching project. I loved that little bird. She hung with me in the garden everyday, and would run up to meet me when I drove in the driveway and she would hobble up the basement stairs where her coop was (attached to a window ) and would sit on a chair on a newspaper while I worked on the computer. She lived for seven years and laid an egg almost every day. And I had the best compost pile around! I still miss her.
Thats A pretty horrible prize. If the parents wont take the Bird then you break the little kids heart. Probly start cryin n stuff and makin a scene. Damm kids
Chickens are awesome all purpose animals. As a kid living in Melbourne Australia my parents had a chicken coup and run on one side of the yard and a vegetable garden on the other. Every year my father and a few mates would carry the coup/house across the yard and the role of the areas would be reversed. We had the best veggie garden! Every few years we’d cull the chickens and get more from a local egg farm. The chickens weren’t good to eat but nothing ever went to waste. They were boiled down into a kind of meaty stock which was strained and frozen in Tupperware and used for cooking, the bones & all the egg shells from the previous years were turned into a paste in a homemade mortar and pestle then dried (my job) and fed back to the new birds as part of their diet for the first year. I had to turn over the chook yard every weekend. All of our kitchen scraps were fed to the chooks, what wasn’t eaten got turned in and fed the worms. Even grass clippings went into the chook yard, what wasn’t eaten either composted or attracted bugs which were. Everyone talks about Green Solutions today but have forgotten the most simple stuff. I still have chickens to this day (50years later) and the same system works just as well. The only change is that I only keep 6 chooks and I have two small coups. We get more than enough eggs for us and trade the excess ones for chook food instead of the 24 my parents used to run and sell or trade the eggs for money or vegetables we didn’t grow. I don’t pay for chook food and my neighbours love the eggs and provide all sorts of food for the girls. They also provide great entertainment for the local kids who get a real kick out of feeding them and collecting the eggs. My oldest son is an enigma, we’ve often been given fertilised eggs to set under a clucky bird and the mother will get up and allow him to inspect her chicks without any aggression but turn into Rambo The Killer Chicken when I go near. We got CJ to use nail polish to mark the hens since he was about 10yo and he still comes and does it now. How he knows is a mystery to us but he says it’s as easy as looking at people. He’s never marked a chick as female which didn’t turn out to be a hen and only missed one to my knowledge in about 200.
I took a miniterm at my high school all about chickens. We went to various kinds of local individuals who kept chickens, one on a farm, and two just in their backyard. I'll never forget the amount of respect found in each owner towards their chickens. The one that stays in my head the most was the last one we visited with this woman and her young grandson. He was so proud and happy about the chickens, he knew all their names and would pick them up and show them to us. It was absolutely adorable, and the chickens were so calm around him. We got to hold a chicken and take pictures (as it was also a photography class), and when it came to me holding the chicken the little gall fell asleep and nuzzled her beak into my sleeve. I'll never forget that moment, I wanted to take her home lol. From that class I learned that...I really want chickens someday.
Chickens in the video: smart,fast,great hunters. My chickens:smack into the fence,can’t see the worm I’m holding in front of them,random screaming,fall over as they preen.
@@reptiqueen7275 I can relate! My MaryKate ate pieces of broken glass when my son accidentally broke a cup inside the run. By the time I got out there to clean up, she was pecking at the glass, only her not the others. Thank God she didn’t die. 😅
I grew up around chickens in Puerto Rico. They're very common there. They are smart, loyal, and funny. You can train them. Some love to follow their owners and to cuddle with them. They're like dogs in many ways.
Broc Theil yeah, I know. Still, I left PR very young, b4 I was four. I plan to go back later, but my home is in NYC, for now. I'm a veteran, and I love this country.
My mom had a flock of Leghorns in Arizona. One day we heard the loudest cacophony of screeching and very loud chicken sounds that we had ever heard from our chickens! Feathers were flying and all the chickens were concentrated in about a 5 foot area. Once we could see better, it turns out they had pecked to death a large rattle snake 😮😲 We didn’t even know chickens would do that! Way to go chickens !!! 🥳🥳🥳👍👍👍
I love my mum's chickens. My son had found one in the flock that was a hen he named Chad (he says Chad is synonymous with "cool and relaxed"). It was the only hen that would let us pick her up with absolutely no issues. The rest will get close to us, but they only come for food, which I think is very ironic. 🤷🏾♀️
@@arhafrench5319 If you get Buff Orpington’s they sometimes act like they think they are your puppy dog and follow you around and like to be petted 😁👍🌷
Wish i hv a backyard so that i can keep from rescueing many big n small animals from the cruel slaugther house... i dont eat meat.. just love animals much. Poor innocent souls.. Tq for giving yr chicken a chance to live a normal lives ♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾🐓🐔🐥🐣
Humans act so surprised when an animal do something that shows they are capable of being smart and have feelings. Earth to humans, this is why you treat breathing animals with compassion and kindness.
There was this one day when I was 18 years old. My parents just left for vacation, I was playing a game on the computer and didn't notice how late it was. Then I started hearing all this weird knocking at the door, all the chickens were outside pecking at the screen door to get my attention. So I went out to see what all the noise was as they walked with me towards the chicken coup, they were in a panic about something, since they normally put themselves away for the night but they came instead to get help. I get out there and all it was, was this big fat opposum, didn't mean to cause such a ruckus... He was really only interested in the feeding tray on the ground. He got the hint and slowly went away. After this the chickens were able to calm down and go up on their roosts to settle in. I closed up their door and made it all safe for the night. It was just so strange that they came knocking at the door like that. Get the humans they can help us with the intruder!
I had 2 wild pigeons I rescued they came back to me evena fter they flew into the city and one day one of them had something wrapped around the foot and theyc ame to me for help getting it off the foot....so yes some birds do that
That's so cool! so chickens can develop a trusting relationship with people! Living out in the country I've been thinking of getting some chickens to have more or less as pets but there are raccoons about in my area - they frequently raid my cats food bowl for any scraps. 🐔
@@raybin6873 we had coyotes and everything out there where i lived. They're usually good during the day, our chickens were free range, they loved getting outside stretching their wings and rolling around in dirt on hot days. They were very tame too, we could walk right over and pick them up, and they would go nuts when we were gardening because we'd dig up grubs and stuff that they wanted. Was a little annoying at times because they'd get right on the shovel. They don't 'need' heat but we still had a little heater set up in their home for really cold nights. Lots of fresh hay. Their home was built very solid. Nothing was able to get in there. We also had an outdoor pen attached in case we felt like keeping them safe inside while still being able to get some air and sunlight. You need to bury the chicken wire deep down so nothing digs under it.
My Chickies knew that if we called out "Giiiiiiirls!", we either had treats or wanted to snuggle, so they'd come running! I swear one of them used emotional manipulation on me! She hopped over the fence to the side of the yard we didn't want them in and I had to go get her. My younger sister named her "Batman" because she was a black Bantam Australorp; we didn't want to call a hen "Batman", so we called her "Baby Bat" instead. I went outside with my hands on my hips and yelled out "Baby Bat! You bad girl!", and she booked it across the yard to me, hopped up the small set of stairs to the porch where I was standing, and then crouched down in front of me so I could pick her up. Once I picked her up and held her, she immediately nuzzled her head into my neck and smacked her beak happily. I couldn't be mad at that! It was so cute!
@@fakecubed yeah, but she named her Batman before we knew if the chick would be a hen or a rooster, and Baby Bat was just cuter; probably would have ended up calling her Baby Bat even if she had turned out to be a rooster
Chickens are actually super interesting little animals, especially when there’s a rooster in the flock. It is so neat seeing how the rooster manages all his hens. From breaking up fights to calling them all into the coop at night
NERD IT UP I think they are very, very cute. And funny. Also.. closest living relative to dinosaurs? I think that fact alone instantly makes them pretty interesting.
Jaden Igguks I was always a dino lover, so no wonder lol. But I am a huge bird lover. I want to get closer to them. I think working at a bird rescue would be a dream come true.
NERD IT UP " I think working at a bird rescue would be a dream come true." I have been rescuing wild baby birds for the last few years and I find it very rewarding. The best place to start if you want to rescue/rehab birds is starlingtalk forums (it worked for me).
My grandparents had a one legged rooster named ChiChi. Every day at lunchtime he came inside for a pan of cornbread! Chickens are wonderful animals and I thoroughly enjoyed watching all the battery hens rescued in this video!
I love Chickens. I had one Rooster named Omelet, I potty trained him, and I got a bird harness. He eventually followed me down the street to pick up mail for my parents, to go to the park, or just on a short walk around the neighborhood for fun, and he would follow me without me calling him, or on a lead.
My partner had one called Zinger, she would run to the door if the doorbell rang and she would "bark" at dogs that went by the house. Once she got into a fight with a cat and won. This all happened way before I met him, but the legend of Zinger lives on and I feel almost as though I did know her!
i wish i could do that but there's a bunch of feral cats in my neighborhood and i don't feel comfy letting em out of the backyard. they follow me around in the back though :)
omelet is the perfect name for a rooster! I just started taking my chicken out on walks but I just can't get them to realize that a street is not safe to cross without looking
I have a friend in Alabama who lives down the road from a huge Tyson chicken farm. Every time they take birds to the packing plant, they call her and tell her to come catch the escapees and other culls they left behind. These overweight, undersocialized, sometimes mutated chickens (one has 4 legs) get to live out the rest of their lives on her hilltop farm
I left my RUclips on autoplay and this marvelously interesting video came on and caught my eye. I was fascinated watching these chickens. My mother was raised on a farm and a lover of these charming and entertaining birds. If I were to have them as pets I would probably feel terrible about eating these birds. I eat eggs at least five times a week and they are some of the most nutritious foods on earth! Some of them are so beautiful and exotic when I see them at state fairs. I love these chickens!!
I had to stop eating them because I love them so much…. ! I definitely eat the eggs though. They are incredible healers after being close to death so many times. I’ve taken them out of the jaws of dogs and they have survived. There is a story of a chicken that froze solid outside during a very cold night and the lady thawed it carefully inside and she ended up being just fine and she lived a long and fruitful life!!!! Gosh is that story in this piece? I will feel dumb if it is… I didn’t actually watch the whole thing yet, so I’m not sure.
My beautiful chickens are organic, free range and loved. I have a No Kill rule on my farm. My old man Rooster, Joe, did pass in Dec of 2021 at 17+ years old. I miss him a lot. I also have 3 amazing geese that look after the chickens to protect from Ariel attacks. Every bird is a pet. They know they are loved and pets. One of my geese will climb into ones lap and wrap her long neck around the person to give a goose hug 😍. Many of the chickens love to be held and kissed on top of their head😄. Even my cell phone ring is a rooster crowing 😁🐓🐔.
Most people will never come to know what lovely little endearing creatures they are. Plus they are natural comedians there's nothing quite as funny as watching them running squawking while they're flapping their wings. It never gets old.
Chickens are some of the best pets, It's just that everyone underestimates them. My chickens are really clever, they're kind of like a little community of people.
Such a shame that these amazing animals spent the first 18 months of their lives in a battery....this lady is an amazing humanitarian...God bless her!💖🙏🏻
I love my chickens, they are incredibly smart, and have you ever seen a flock of them recognize you and come running across the yard? It's incredibly adorable.
We always introduce new chickens to the coop during the night. Sometimes they'll get up together go out and they seem to notice less that there's a new chicken in the group.
Tip: if you're scared that foxes eat your chickens, take one (1) goose duckling and put it with the chickens. It will grow up and protect your chickens at all costs and most foxes don't dare to attack a goose. Only take one goose though, otherwise it won't bond with the chickens. Goose eggs are edible and mainly used in hot dishes. Goose are hilarious, you won't regret it.
I have currently 7 hens, 1 cockerel and 3 chicks. They all have names and different personalities. I find chickens truly fascinating creatures, who else agrees? Update! Hello everyone, I don't understand how I have so many likes on this comment, but my hen family has increased. I am not entirely sure how many exactly I have now, but I have received more and now have around twenty five or so.
Absolutely! We have 14 hens, also all named and totally different from each other. I love them so much! I even train them and teach them little tricks, they are absolutely smart if they see a reason for doing something (e.g. getting food).
I agree chickens are very intelligent, have distinct personalities, etc. We always trained ours to do tricks, as well as some verbal and gesture commands to help us manage them and move them around as needed. There were many times that we observed startlingly intelligent behavior. I've known dogs that were much dumber. Some smarter, too, but there's probably some chickens out there that would give even the smartest dogs a run for their money. I wonder what the smartest chicken breed is.
I love all of the chicken stories in these comments! I lived next door to my son for four years and his family had 10 hens. I enjoyed tossing vegetable and fruit peels and other leftovers over the fence and watching them dash madly for their snack. I moved into town and in the years since then, I feel guilty throwing those peelings and scraps away! At Christmas time, especially, I have an enormous pile of sweet potato and russet potato peels and always wish those chickens were next door!🐓🐓🐓
Years ago when I had chickens 12 hens and one giant rooster, I had no problems with pests at all, bugs, snakes, rats you name it everything disappeared. What I thought was interesting is if the rooster found something wild to eat like a spider, mouse etc. he would stand next to it let out a unique call and the hens would run to that spot and fight to get that food. He was very protective and nurturing to all his ladies especially in the early morning when I would let the chickens out of the henhouse. When you own and get to know your chickens it’s amazing house smart and entertaining they are. Everyone has its own personality, just like the lady here I named everyone of them. Also you learn their calls when they’re hungry or especially when there’s a predator in the yard. They are very busy and they will keep you busy
I really, really dislike their noise but also live in a place with a ridiculous amount of poisonous snakes, like I'm pretty sure that a cobra got one of my beloved cats last year and since all these comments glow about the joy of chickens maybe l guess l should seriously consider getting them. I have noticed the personality thing when visiting a friend who has some. Pretty amusing stuff.
Kim A. H. I love chickens as pets, and as food. I remember one time when I was young, my parents and I raised chickens for eggs, and we had extra roosters. They killed one and became our dinner, but I couldn't eat something I personally invested lol. But they are great sources of food too.
Kim A. H. completely agree, I keep chickens too and you're right they are a lot smarter than we give them credit for! I feed my girls a tray of oats every morning and my oldest is in the habit of using her claw to tip the tray so that all of the oats spill out towards her! that being said, I have another girl who once jumped off of my lap and straight into a fence. love them though :)
I was feeding my chickens little bits of bread and one of my hens nicked a whole slice of bread she then spent the next couple of minutes being persued by the rest of the flock until another hen grabbed the slice of bread of her and the chase continued.
I developed such an odd passion for chickens. I love everything about them, they’re beautiful, funny, sweet when you get to know them, interesting and actually really smart. I hate that we see them as just food, when they’re really just such incredible creatures. I hope one day more people can see chickens as more of a unique, and beautiful creature vs just a “dumb, unfeeling food animal”.
I love my chickens too. They are the greatest mothers, I have 1 that sat on 27 eggs, she hatched and took care of all of them so good I couldn't believe it. I had rescued her, and she had never gotten to sit on an egg, nore had she seen another chicken get to sit on her eggs but she just did it and she is the best chicken in the world and I love all her babies.
I had a pet hen that died recently that I raised after her siblings tried to kill her when they were younger she was a timid little thing but very friendly and loved talking to me I miss her she was like a emotional support chicken in a way even though she wasn’t trained
Love hens to bits.ours used to hastily squat in front of us to be stroked or picked up. We were always almost being tripped up by their determination to enjoy a fuss. Ours were all rescued hens. What a delightful lady.
***** Every single thing on our planet has a purpose, even feces. NOTHING would grow without it. It puts energy back into the soil. But we are not literally eating shit- just whatever grows from it. It's the circle of life, my friend.
Ok, but what do you think is in fertilizer? How do plants grow? If you walk in a forest, seedlings sprout in rotting trees, feces…now, if you are talking about agribusiness; the factory production of meat, dairy, etc, then I have to agree with you that it is 100% shit!
This was a wonderful documentary! I enjoyed every minute of it! How I wish all chickens were free range! Now that I know how smart they really are, it seems very cruel indeed to keep them in cages in barns without natural light. I am glad in the USA we now have laws about how chickens are treated. Yet I know there are still places that exist where there is animal cruelty. I am slowly becoming more and more of a vegetarian, as I quit pork 100 percent. My beef consumption is almost minute. My chicken consumption is about 3 percent of my diet now. I just love animals so much. I received a baby chick when I was in first grade. WE had a group of five eggs that hatched in our first grade classroom. I was one of the winners to take a chick home. WE lived in the city! MY chick was the ONLY one that survived, and I could bring it back for show and tell. Then she got big enough, she had to go to my Aunt's and Uncle's farm to live. I was only 7 seven years old when Miss Peeps went away. My parents waited until I was 15 years old to tell me Ms. Peeps was picked on by the other chickens so much, she had to be by herself. So one Sunday my cousin's family had her for Sunday dinner! Wow! I cried, and I was not happy! I asked why they waited so long to tell me? My folks said, "Gee why do YOU think we waited?" Then I hugged them, as I realized it was the right thing to do, and after all, this is sometimes the cycle of life. I felt like a hypocrite, as we were eating someone's chicken for dinner! Duh! Thanks for a great documentary, and for taking me back to wonderful childhood memories with my pet chick! Love, from Oregon, Michelle
My family used to have chicken farm when I was a kid. I play with them almost all day. We breed them for the eggs, and occasionally for the meat. It was fun to have natural alarm device, my family wakes up almost at the same time everyday. But then Asian Financial Crisis of 1998 crushes our farm and we have to sold it and living in city. Miss those old days of raising chicks up to laying it's first egg. And being a chicken raiser myself, these creature is one of man's best friend!
Just FYI, they are so fat because we've selectively bred and genetically modified them over time to be extremely fat, especially the ones raised for their flesh. Consider not using chickens in any capacity after seeing this documentary. The chickens will appreciate it.
Why can't American TV be like this? Nice to watch, educational, well done. I stopped watching TV in the USA about a couple of years ago. All I ever seen was BS. Good video, I enjoyed it.
Why do you have to single out the US? There are tons of educational channels that you can watch, such as National Geographic or Discovery Channel, both of which are created in the US. I think you've only seen BS because you're full of it.
Jun Liu Those channels are from paid services such as cable or satellite. Even those tend to suck. Last time I turned on the idiot box, all I could find was cheap entertainment and heavily scripted/censored news. We have one public TV station here and it is rare it shows anything worthwhile. I'm not paying some company as much as I pay for internet for a hundred shitty channels when I can surf the web and watch things like this chicken documentary (which I enjoyed rather much).
Totally blew my mind when one of my chickens stole a live mouse from the cat and ate it. Also mind bending is the fact that the cats steer clear of the chickens cuz the chickens will peck & chase if the get too close.
My cat is thoroughly traumatized by our chickens, we had a small flock of young birds and they liked to get into mischief. They saw the cat hanging around and got curious, they surrounded him and he just bolted straight to the door to come inside, they chased this poor cat all the way
I had a feral kit come up, starving, no larger than a tennis ball, found him on the roost next to a hen, it was freezing weather. I took him warm feed for a few days. He now lives with the hens, goes in at nite with them. I’ve seen him watch the sky and helps warn them of hawks. My two other barn cats stay In Place (hay barn and other in horse barn).
My chickens protected me from getting bitten by a brown reckless,(spider) black widow(spider) and centipedes. I was wearing sandals and they saw them before I did. Quick little sweet hearts. They eat all kinds of pests! Loved them!!
I've heard that you introduce new hens quietly at night. Reasoning is they think they've been there the whole time-- not sure how much I believe that, but for whatever reason I've heard success stories. Much less stress on the chickens AND humans. I loooove chicken company❣️
they can be polar opposites as well... we only hear about all of the "nice" ones... at least the asshole chickens still taste like... chicken. (life on the farm, ok? the asshole chickens kind of self-nominate for the Coq au Vin pot...)
Excellent video! I love my clucks, they do all their own personalities and fun little behaviors. I never thought I would be so captivated and love my chickens the way I do! What a great creature!!
What i learned by watching this video is that chickens are smart. They know how to organize themselves and they respect leadership and hierchy. I wont be surprise if one day, they would band themselves and create a union and demand for a better housing, much tastier food for them and R&R...
The Republicans in the USA have banded together to fight any kind of Liberal, bleeding heart, activity that supports any kind of human or animal-rights on this planet.
@@jameswest4819 I applaud your speaking against the national socialist republicans anywhere anytime, even to such a small audience. Don't forget about their disregard for the rights of this PLANET.
You can never know too much about chickens.. THIS is a fantastic video! Everyone who raises chickens in their yard or on their farm is living the good life. Take excellent care of them and they will in turn, provide well for us. Thank you for posting this exceptional collection of poultry facts and wonderful sequences of MY favorite bird!
I think everyone who raises chickens figures a lot of this information out on their own pretty quick. Growing up with chickens in our backyard, I figured out how to train ours to do all kinds of tricks. Their different vocalizations were easy to learn. Their moods and body language became quite obvious with enough observation. The results of the various experiments in this video shouldn't surprise any chicken owner.
Factory farming is cruel and unnatural. The chickens on the farm I work at could never thrive anyplace like that - they need space, fresh air, and good food.
You know what else is unnatural, the device you just used to write this comment lol who gives a shit about unnatural, it's not unhealthy and that's all that matters.
As long as human population continues to grow exponentially stuff like huge factory farming will continue to stay alive (unless we all decide to eat lab grown meat)
Chickens have a culture and a language it is easy to comprehend, even for humans. Learn them and you're fine. What is fascinating is what a chicken CAN learn if given motivation and encouragement. A few of our chickens were hand raised and lived indoors with the family. They had quite a lot of time to learn an astounding number of tricks and behaviors. Having the time and resources; It is amazing what they are capable of learning!!!! (we never had more than a few dozen at a time)
We need to stop animal cruelty in factory farms, not a single living being deserves to live their whole life in a cage without sunshine and being able to move. It's not healthy for them, nor for human consumption either. There should be rights for animals to live a happy, normal life too. They have feelings too and deserve the very best treatment from us. My total admiration for Jane and her wonderful work to help these animals! We could all follow her example. 👏👍
@Naurius... and you'll probably consume that suffering energy from them and wonder why you're miserable. You probably have hidden hurt inside of you for your cruelty. I hope you heal it soon and become your true self. Many blessings
@Naurius Well enjoyment fits better than fun. Because factory farming makes them suffer and the ends are eating them or our eggs, which is enjoyment considering that we don't need to eat them to survive (if you don't believe humans can live healthily on a vegan diet, you have to at least agree that it's not necessary to eat so much eggs and meat that it's necessary to farm them on such a large scale and you just as well might farm less of them under better conditions to still receive the health benefits of eating eggs). So while making chicken suffer on purpose is definitely more malicious than farming them under terrible conditions, the same factors make it morally bad (in my opinion): You are making someone suffer for your own ends (be that food or the pure enjoyment of their suffering). Does that make sense? (I do realize you might not agree with a lot of the premises that lead up to this analysis but this is how I see it and explaining them as well would go way overboard)
I love chickens. They are fun, adorable, entertaining, delicious, useful and a whole lot of things that you can't say about other animals. They are easily one of my top 3 favorite animals.
@Johnny Steffy my Dad-n-law said this, and it changed my life: "Knowing *how* something works makes it even more amazing to know *that* it works." Like you, I used to miss the mystery. Not anymore, though, not since I heard his son say that. 😁
@@RoxieRedwood yes, it seems that I enjoy learning new stuff so much! I'm 55, became a high school teacher at 40 after career of illustration and nonprofit arts grantmaker. I get a really silly joy when I learn things sometimes, like that wind is created, in part, because of the movement of warm and cool air. Wow! My kids feel me when I have that wonder!
@@hardware144 take a pill. I dont do FB or even like MSM. News. I guess you didnt listen to the narrators at all. Take us out of a cage after 3 years and we'd be screwed. Eat goose or duck instead. I've never had an egg try to transfix me.
I grew up around chickens for many years and I can whole heartedly say that these animals are probably the most therapeutic and relaxing to watch and be around. When you watch them long enough you start to get a sense that they have their own little community going on. You'll learn who the leader is. Who the most desired hen is. Who the least desired rooster is. You'll watch young chickens grow up to be dominant chickens. You'll see the personality build within each chicken that'll make them very distinct. There's so much more to chickens. You'll also learn how to determine what their body language means. What the sounds they make mean. There is so much to learn from chickens! honestly!! I mean I'm still gonna eat them regardless. But still!!! Go buy some chickens to raise and keep watching them everyday. It's kinda like watching a live tv show except with chickens. entertaining stuff.
The only way you can do that is if you buy the chickens who aren’t laying from the factory farms. Or you can buy only free range chicken products if you wish to encourage chickens to have better lives on farms.
A brilliant video. Thank you. I too have taken in chickens (from battery cages and deep-litter sheds) and it's a joy to watch them adjust to natural surroundings. One moment that sticks in my memory was when some hens that had to be coaxed out of their new night-time shelter/hen house stood bewildered on the grass on the first morning and looked up at the sky as though in wonder at the space or the fact that there was no ceiling! (Or were they reverting to natural behaviour and checking for predators? It didn't seem like it.)
It's a breath of fresh air to see someone doing something just wonderful for creatures that are victims of major abuse in the food industry (I'm not vegan and I say this). God bless Jane and her tiny yet ferocious feathered dinosaurs
Tess Tess So it’s ok to abuse animals? Read her comment first before you say that. She is talking about the abuse not how eating chickens is bad. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
@Tess Tess Appeal to nature fallacy, because something is natural doesn't mean it is moral or necessary. The vegan life is very sustainable, far more so than animal agriculture which contributes to around 50% of global emissions and plant consumption. 60 Billion land animals are killed each year, guess what they eat. Living like this is destroying our planet, causing heart disease, contributing to diabetes and cancer. Meat eating for 7 billion people is unsustainable, unhealthy and causes unnecessary suffering to billions of sentient beings.
matismf Yes, they had a hay day at our Texas property when we had a bloom of grasshoppers!! And those eggs were splindiferous!! Very rich and yolks were orange!! And they about ran me over to get out of the henhouse to capture those morsels. What a hoot watching them chase them down. We still laugh about it 25 years later. Bless their little hearts!!🍳
When I was young my family had over 300 of them, no coop, no barn, no fence, but just orchard, during the night they flew up onto tree branch and sleep.
My Golden Lace Polish does that and I'm 11 years old we have a coop to keep the raccoons and predators away but I can't reach her and she barely comes down when it snows. Do you have any idea to get her to come down I've tried worms and treats but I just can't get her down? HELP MEH!!!
Nope.avi Back then I was in Asia, there no such things as snow. Have you tried using a gun? a few bullets might work for taking down. (joking) Well, my family, we have a little code between us and our chickens, we make a sound that has absolutely no meaning for human but these keys sound is uniques and distinct to chicken. When using the sound the chicken know it is us human (their owner) is calling for them like lunchtime or food time for them or 'shuu!' them away. It is very necessary that you training the young with the basic command like this (the come here or rally them to you and to get them away from you in case you are busy and need space). And not just sound from mouth/lip but also include gestures or so call body language. Once they get to understand and follow your command, then the rest new generation chicks to comes will be easy to control as they will follow the big ones and recognise your command. For example, I stand near the feeding area by just standing some chicken nearby in the area would already head up to see what I was doing, and if I clap my hands and try to make the loud noise (Kuuuuk! ku ku ku ku Kuuuuuuuuuu~) to calling them and repeating like 2 or 3 more times, but also watch to make sure most chickens were there present in front and not like half are absent, if so then continue calling and maybe move myself to other connor of the area in case the sound echo didn't reach the missing one and I usually get to see like 2 to 6 'running late chicken' but that is okay coz they are here and it time to feed them by throw food in the air scatter and drop to ground. Sometimes my father uses this calls to gather our chicken and make the rough population counting, and at one point we reach almost 600. And that was too much to keep so my dad use this call as well to capture the chicken and gave to a neighbouring farm. (Snake hate chicken's poops) Back then I was young and sad that our chicken reduces to about 120 to 150, but not long after like about a year and a half, the chicken repopulate back to a steady number like 300 ish. So yeah, All in all, it pretty much the bond, instinct, and signal between chickens and the human owner. If you don't have this kind of relationship with your chicken, then you are having a problem with the one you were asking about and the only solution is "to uses force (that may seem violence like using net or trap or something). If you plan to continue pet chicken for more generation in future then it not too late to train them with sound command, you can even make up your unique sound, but remember that if you going to use that 'unique sound' then use it consistently like every time before giving them foods and they will remember this sound mean food or calling depend on situation you training them. I am not professional of all chicken, I was merely a country boy and that was my personal experience and how I command them when I was young about schooler ages. I hope my experience story could help you, and Good Luck.
Lucky Loyd..... One of my favorite pet hen, a dominant but nice Silver Laced Wyandotte, refused to submit to a baby chick who turned out to be a beautiful Rhode Island Red Rooster. His name was Big Red Rhonda, because I though he was a she He was very attached rooster and bonded with me like a dog but I had to put him up for adoption. A lovely lady adopted him as a pet and he became a house pet with a lovely back yard. I do miss him, he use to follow me around the yard like a dog and loved to be held.
“A source of protein we don’t need to kill the bird to get” Factory farms that grind male chicks to make feed for female chickens: hold my hard boiled egg
My dad had a rooster that drank beer with him every day. Dad would go out and feed the whole flock and then sit at the picnic table with the empty pie tin he brought food on. As soon as the rooster her him pop the top on the van of beer he would fly up to the table and dad would pour him some beer in the tin. He would drink it up. Them he'd get rowdy with the hens. Lol
I've always loved chickens. I actually wanted one for a pet when I was younger. This was a Very interesting documentary. I had no idea that chickens hunted prey! The lady that rescues the chickens and re-homes them is absolutely awesome! I'd love to one day own a huge farm that takes in animals like this... I see there is a "Private Life of Cows" so I'm going to add that to my To Watch list too. I love cows too.
Lissa Bruce I love chickens! My peers often think its weird to love such an animal. I have my own flock and the leader is Daisy even though she is the smallest of the bunch, which I find hilarious. Anyway I love this documentary! Going to add to my watch list right now.
Lissa Bruce I was in our coop a few months ago and our lead hen caught a mouse and ate it live right in front of me--I was shocked! I guess we don't need a cat to keep the mice down.
Lissa Bruce I was in our coop a few months ago and our lead hen caught a mouse and ate it live right in front of me--I was shocked! I guess we don't need a cat to keep the mice down.
Ive had chickens my whole life and have studied them thoroughly. They are both really smart and really dumb but very interesting nonetheless. Learning what sounds they make mean what, how they observe, how high a hawk is and they can still tell what it is etc. This also could have been another hour, as in I wish there was more to watch. Great little view into the world of chickens
I've kept chickens, and like so many of the commenters, observed them with much pleasure. And with fear, remembering their dinosaur past, and thinking, "What if chickens were 10 feet tall?"
I can sit around my Chickens until I loose track of time, watching them peck around, take dust baths and sort out their pecking order 😂 .. Never gets boring
This was the most informative n amazing video of chickens I've seen. The egg demonstration was what I was in search of when I came across your video, wow. Thank you for letting us in to your farm Jane your a true Chicken whisper, thank u for the work you do... both of you truly have helped me on my journey of chicken farming in the united states. THANK YOU so much for the knowledge.
This is Jeff’s wife commenting now. I do some pet-sitting every now and then and the pets include chickens. I find their little clucks and chirps relaxing and comforting and I like the feel of their pecks on my hand when I feed them by hand. They each have separate personalities. Some are shy while others are the first to greet me.
@@lindarice6679 It may get worse. but only because people forget to wake up and use their noodles to live right. I hope October will not see an uptick in number of cases. If so just know that this challenge is what we need as a species. Wear protection if possible. On YT George Webb Truth Leaks gives a lot of info that is useful. I've had time to tend to a little city garden. Some people in my neighborhood have a few chickens. I've also planted a tulip poplar for the bees to enjoy making their antibiotic. That antibiotic, propolis may be the only way they're going to be able to survive.
My family's had chickens since early 2019. Sadly, the last one died earlier this month, but she was so lucky to have owners who cared about and protected her from both predators and suffering the miserable fate of being cramped in a cage full of other chicken's corpses.
The shape training, WOW!!!!! When I was a kid, they had chickens in little cages with a piano or various games to have them do, and a cup on the wall where corn would come out when they got it right, and yes, I knew as a child that chickens can be smart enough to learn these things, even how to play the piano.
I have chickens and my hen protected me from a snake while I was taking a nap in the grass. She ran up to me and started making a noise to alert me of a snake slithering up towards me lol
Have you ever considered going vegan to repay your chickens wonderfully kind favors?
@@babychicks3244 I don't eat chicken. I actually saved these chickens from being eaten, as well as saved from from disease and predators :/ You'd never realize how much someone could love a few chickens until you see me charge out of my mouse to rescue one getting attacked lol
@@babychicks3244 think about it though. My chicken was returning the love I've shown her protecting me from a snake lol
Baby Chicks Dig Vegans And how do you know the OP isn’t already vegan?
@@babychicks3244 one doesnt need to be vegan or kill the chickens to keep chickens as food source. Keep them for eggs like i do. I might hunt but i could never kill an animal i raised. Thats why i have given up raising rabbits.
I had a few chickens, raised them from chicks. All hens. Had them for eggs. Everyday when I would come home form work, I would go out in the backyard and call, "chicky chicky chickies!" and they would all come waddling as fast as they could. I would feed them and then have a few beers out in the back with them. They were like dogs. Sometimes they'd jump up on my lap and just hang out and look at me, eye to eye. They will talk to you as well with their low light chirps. They were great gals! Great memories I will always cherish.
That's awesome.
Aww man that was my favourite part of my chickens too. I loved it most when they'd chat to me in the same way old women sit around playing cards and chatting. They really see you as part of their family. They are so socially intelligent, but in a way that can be foreign to us just because bird brains are wired a bit differently to mammal brains.
Sounds like you pimpin 😂
question, How many beers would your chickens drink with you.
Please tell me you didn't end up eating them...
I love chickens. We had one chicken years ago that my daughter “won” after a school egg hatching project. I loved that little bird. She hung with me in the garden everyday, and would run up to meet me when I drove in the driveway and she would hobble up the basement stairs where her coop was (attached to a window ) and would sit on a chair on a newspaper while I worked on the computer. She lived for seven years and laid an egg almost every day. And I had the best compost pile around! I still miss her.
To bond with any animal is a beautiful experience.
Thank you for sharing your experience. 🐔 🐔☺☺❤❤
Thats A pretty horrible prize. If the parents wont take the Bird then you break the little kids heart. Probly start cryin n stuff and makin a scene. Damm kids
Chickens are awesome all purpose animals. As a kid living in Melbourne Australia my parents had a chicken coup and run on one side of the yard and a vegetable garden on the other. Every year my father and a few mates would carry the coup/house across the yard and the role of the areas would be reversed. We had the best veggie garden! Every few years we’d cull the chickens and get more from a local egg farm. The chickens weren’t good to eat but nothing ever went to waste. They were boiled down into a kind of meaty stock which was strained and frozen in Tupperware and used for cooking, the bones & all the egg shells from the previous years were turned into a paste in a homemade mortar and pestle then dried (my job) and fed back to the new birds as part of their diet for the first year. I had to turn over the chook yard every weekend. All of our kitchen scraps were fed to the chooks, what wasn’t eaten got turned in and fed the worms. Even grass clippings went into the chook yard, what wasn’t eaten either composted or attracted bugs which were. Everyone talks about Green Solutions today but have forgotten the most simple stuff. I still have chickens to this day (50years later) and the same system works just as well. The only change is that I only keep 6 chooks and I have two small coups. We get more than enough eggs for us and trade the excess ones for chook food instead of the 24 my parents used to run and sell or trade the eggs for money or vegetables we didn’t grow. I don’t pay for chook food and my neighbours love the eggs and provide all sorts of food for the girls. They also provide great entertainment for the local kids who get a real kick out of feeding them and collecting the eggs. My oldest son is an enigma, we’ve often been given fertilised eggs to set under a clucky bird and the mother will get up and allow him to inspect her chicks without any aggression but turn into Rambo The Killer Chicken when I go near. We got CJ to use nail polish to mark the hens since he was about 10yo and he still comes and does it now. How he knows is a mystery to us but he says it’s as easy as looking at people. He’s never marked a chick as female which didn’t turn out to be a hen and only missed one to my knowledge in about 200.
I really hope my chicken also could live 7 years.
I took a miniterm at my high school all about chickens. We went to various kinds of local individuals who kept chickens, one on a farm, and two just in their backyard. I'll never forget the amount of respect found in each owner towards their chickens. The one that stays in my head the most was the last one we visited with this woman and her young grandson. He was so proud and happy about the chickens, he knew all their names and would pick them up and show them to us. It was absolutely adorable, and the chickens were so calm around him. We got to hold a chicken and take pictures (as it was also a photography class), and when it came to me holding the chicken the little gall fell asleep and nuzzled her beak into my sleeve. I'll never forget that moment, I wanted to take her home lol. From that class I learned that...I really want chickens someday.
You absolutely will have chuks one day!
Chickens in the video: smart,fast,great hunters.
My chickens:smack into the fence,can’t see the worm I’m holding in front of them,random screaming,fall over as they preen.
There are definitely smarter breeds than others. Lol
Funniest yet most spot on comment yet lol ruclips.net/channel/UCoKmGhkOYn717BH2S9r_yWA
Are they still alive?I have one that was falling down,turns out she's having sezers.trying to find out why now
One of our hens is named Derp. She's not the most intelligent, I saw her eat a piece of plastic yesterday
@@reptiqueen7275 I can relate! My MaryKate ate pieces of broken glass when my son accidentally broke a cup inside the run. By the time I got out there to clean up, she was pecking at the glass, only her not the others. Thank God she didn’t die. 😅
I grew up around chickens in Puerto Rico. They're very common there. They are smart, loyal, and funny. You can train them. Some love to follow their owners and to cuddle with them. They're like dogs in many ways.
+Miguel Rodriguez wait should *We* the USA make you state, because Puerto Rico deserves to be one...
Le Lenny Thank you, sir. I love America! I served in the army and it's a privilege to be called a veteran. God bless America!!!!
***** I'm from Toa Baja. U??
Broc Theil yeah, I know. Still, I left PR very young, b4 I was four. I plan to go back later, but my home is in NYC, for now. I'm a veteran, and I love this country.
+Miguel Rodriguez
You left out delicious too!
My mom had a flock of Leghorns in Arizona. One day we heard the loudest cacophony of screeching and very loud chicken sounds that we had ever heard from our chickens! Feathers were flying and all the chickens were concentrated in about a 5 foot area. Once we could see better, it turns out they had pecked to death a large rattle snake 😮😲 We didn’t even know chickens would do that! Way to go chickens !!! 🥳🥳🥳👍👍👍
I love my mum's chickens. My son had found one in the flock that was a hen he named Chad (he says Chad is synonymous with "cool and relaxed"). It was the only hen that would let us pick her up with absolutely no issues. The rest will get close to us, but they only come for food, which I think is very ironic. 🤷🏾♀️
@@arhafrench5319 If you get Buff Orpington’s they sometimes act like they think they are your puppy dog and follow you around and like to be petted 😁👍🌷
I have a backyard flock. Don't know how i ever lived without them. Love my chickens so much, friendly and beautiful birds they are.
Wish i hv a backyard so that i can keep from rescueing many big n small animals from the cruel slaugther house... i dont eat meat.. just love animals much. Poor innocent souls.. Tq for giving yr chicken a chance to live a normal lives ♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾🐓🐔🐥🐣
Humans act so surprised when an animal do something that shows they are capable of being smart and have feelings. Earth to humans, this is why you treat breathing animals with compassion and kindness.
Malik L I treat myself to animals
That's why the average man is a piece of shit not deserving of a life.
@@thermionicemission6355 Haha, so bloody true!
NAH IM GOOD THEY TOO TASTY FOR ME TO GIVE A SHIT
@Agent Eagle truth
There was this one day when I was 18 years old. My parents just left for vacation, I was playing a game on the computer and didn't notice how late it was. Then I started hearing all this weird knocking at the door, all the chickens were outside pecking at the screen door to get my attention. So I went out to see what all the noise was as they walked with me towards the chicken coup, they were in a panic about something, since they normally put themselves away for the night but they came instead to get help.
I get out there and all it was, was this big fat opposum, didn't mean to cause such a ruckus... He was really only interested in the feeding tray on the ground. He got the hint and slowly went away.
After this the chickens were able to calm down and go up on their roosts to settle in. I closed up their door and made it all safe for the night.
It was just so strange that they came knocking at the door like that. Get the humans they can help us with the intruder!
They're so smart. Nice of you to check that they were ok and be kind to the possum
I had 2 wild pigeons I rescued they came back to me evena fter they flew into the city and one day one of them had something wrapped around the foot and theyc ame to me for help getting it off the foot....so yes some birds do that
@DOE John lay off the kratom
That's so cool! so chickens can develop a trusting relationship with people! Living out in the country I've been thinking of getting some chickens to have more or less as pets but there are raccoons about in my area - they frequently raid my cats food bowl for any scraps. 🐔
@@raybin6873 we had coyotes and everything out there where i lived. They're usually good during the day, our chickens were free range, they loved getting outside stretching their wings and rolling around in dirt on hot days. They were very tame too, we could walk right over and pick them up, and they would go nuts when we were gardening because we'd dig up grubs and stuff that they wanted. Was a little annoying at times because they'd get right on the shovel.
They don't 'need' heat but we still had a little heater set up in their home for really cold nights. Lots of fresh hay. Their home was built very solid. Nothing was able to get in there. We also had an outdoor pen attached in case we felt like keeping them safe inside while still being able to get some air and sunlight. You need to bury the chicken wire deep down so nothing digs under it.
My Chickies knew that if we called out "Giiiiiiirls!", we either had treats or wanted to snuggle, so they'd come running!
I swear one of them used emotional manipulation on me! She hopped over the fence to the side of the yard we didn't want them in and I had to go get her. My younger sister named her "Batman" because she was a black Bantam Australorp; we didn't want to call a hen "Batman", so we called her "Baby Bat" instead. I went outside with my hands on my hips and yelled out "Baby Bat! You bad girl!", and she booked it across the yard to me, hopped up the small set of stairs to the porch where I was standing, and then crouched down in front of me so I could pick her up. Once I picked her up and held her, she immediately nuzzled her head into my neck and smacked her beak happily. I couldn't be mad at that! It was so cute!
You know there's a batwoman and a batgirl in the DC universe?
@@fakecubed yeah, but she named her Batman before we knew if the chick would be a hen or a rooster, and Baby Bat was just cuter; probably would have ended up calling her Baby Bat even if she had turned out to be a rooster
Chickens are actually super interesting little animals, especially when there’s a rooster in the flock. It is so neat seeing how the rooster manages all his hens. From breaking up fights to calling them all into the coop at night
One of my favorite past times is sitting outside and watching my chickens ;-; they're like the best pets ever
indeed!!
I love my chickens
Teresas golden Buterlies im bout to expand my farm tbh
I know right mine follow me even the rooster
I have Rhode Island Red hens right now
How can people with inquisitive minds not find these creatures to be utterly fascinating and beautiful?
NERD IT UP I think they are very, very cute. And funny.
Also.. closest living relative to dinosaurs? I think that fact alone instantly makes them pretty interesting.
Jaden Igguks I was always a dino lover, so no wonder lol.
But I am a huge bird lover. I want to get closer to them. I think working at a bird rescue would be a dream come true.
I'd make a "bring an umbrella" joke but i'm not THAT terrible.
Jaden Igguks mmmhhhmmmmm
NERD IT UP " I think working at a bird rescue would be a dream come true."
I have been rescuing wild baby birds for the last few years and I find it very rewarding. The best place to start if you want to rescue/rehab birds is starlingtalk forums (it worked for me).
My grandparents had a one legged rooster named ChiChi. Every day at lunchtime he came inside for a pan of cornbread!
Chickens are wonderful animals and I thoroughly enjoyed watching all the battery hens rescued in this video!
I didn't know this was a comedy show! I laughed so hard at the chicken's non-reaction to the fake fox.😅
I love Chickens. I had one Rooster named Omelet, I potty trained him, and I got a bird harness. He eventually followed me down the street to pick up mail for my parents, to go to the park, or just on a short walk around the neighborhood for fun, and he would follow me without me calling him, or on a lead.
My partner had one called Zinger, she would run to the door if the doorbell rang and she would "bark" at dogs that went by the house. Once she got into a fight with a cat and won. This all happened way before I met him, but the legend of Zinger lives on and I feel almost as though I did know her!
@@mokubakaiba1751 Username checks out
i wish i could do that but there's a bunch of feral cats in my neighborhood and i don't feel comfy letting em out of the backyard. they follow me around in the back though :)
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omelet is the perfect name for a rooster! I just started taking my chicken out on walks but I just can't get them to realize that a street is not safe to cross without looking
I have a friend in Alabama who lives down the road from a huge Tyson chicken farm. Every time they take birds to the packing plant, they call her and tell her to come catch the escapees and other culls they left behind. These overweight, undersocialized, sometimes mutated chickens (one has 4 legs) get to live out the rest of their lives on her hilltop farm
I love that your friend can do this!
I left my RUclips on autoplay and this marvelously interesting video came on and caught my eye. I was fascinated watching these chickens. My mother was raised on a farm and a lover of these charming and entertaining birds. If I were to have them as pets I would probably feel terrible about eating these birds. I eat eggs at least five times a week and they are some of the most nutritious foods on earth! Some of them are so beautiful and exotic when I see them at state fairs. I love these chickens!!
I had to stop eating them because I love them so much…. ! I definitely eat the eggs though. They are incredible healers after being close to death so many times. I’ve taken them out of the jaws of dogs and they have survived. There is a story of a chicken that froze solid outside during a very cold night and the lady thawed it carefully inside and she ended up being just fine and she lived a long and fruitful life!!!! Gosh is that story in this piece? I will feel dumb if it is… I didn’t actually watch the whole thing yet, so I’m not sure.
I don't eat my chickens. Have them only for the eggs and companionship
Jane is such an angel. I cried tears of joy seeing the battery hens going to their new homes. 💖
Yeah I'm not sure why I'm watching this 1 hour long chicken video..... Makes me want a chicken to run around in my yard now
Right? I came here from another video, next thing I know I'm watching a documentary, going "Huh, neat!"
Sedesla Sedeslarson Yeah you can really get off on a whole nother tangent on youtube lol
I came her because my chicken is dieing next too me
Really? Do you mean "my chicken is dying next to me"?
Parker Stephen g
I'm so sorry 🙁
I have 8 chickens, all different breeds, and I can't believe how beautiful they are. They are exquisite creatures
Diseases
Tall Tony shots
Porter Rockwell I know! They are so beautiful and surprisingly smart!
Porter Rockwell
Do you have any silkie bantams?
Or leghorn bantams?
34:05 Chicken Hell 😢😱 God bless she could save at least some ...
My beautiful chickens are organic, free range and loved. I have a No Kill rule on my farm. My old man Rooster, Joe, did pass in Dec of 2021 at 17+ years old. I miss him a lot. I also have 3 amazing geese that look after the chickens to protect from Ariel attacks. Every bird is a pet. They know they are loved and pets. One of my geese will climb into ones lap and wrap her long neck around the person to give a goose hug 😍. Many of the chickens love to be held and kissed on top of their head😄. Even my cell phone ring is a rooster crowing 😁🐓🐔.
aww that’s sounds adorable
Wow are you sure he was 17+ years old? The record holder Matilda seems to be 15-16 years. 🤔
I would also have a no kill rule if I had chickens.
I love your rule.
aerial
Most people will never come to know what lovely little endearing creatures they are. Plus they are natural comedians there's nothing quite as funny as watching them running squawking while they're flapping their wings. It never gets old.
Chickens are some of the best pets, It's just that everyone underestimates them. My chickens are really clever, they're kind of like a little community of people.
Blue Dragon Chickens are the best pet to have! And everyone thinks of them as something else besides pets.
There like having your own cult.
Thank you!
I'm thinking of getting a pet emu.
Blue Dragon omg same! 🐔🐔🐣🐣🐥🐥🐓🐓🐓
Such a shame that these amazing animals spent the first 18 months of their lives in a battery....this lady is an amazing humanitarian...God bless her!💖🙏🏻
she is not a humanitarian...... humans eat chickens....... she is a chickentarian,,,,,
My three are batteries!
@@chicknnugget1964 rescues?
I love my chickens, they are incredibly smart, and have you ever seen a flock of them recognize you and come running across the yard? It's incredibly adorable.
We always introduce new chickens to the coop during the night. Sometimes they'll get up together go out and they seem to notice less that there's a new chicken in the group.
Tip: if you're scared that foxes eat your chickens, take one (1) goose duckling and put it with the chickens. It will grow up and protect your chickens at all costs and most foxes don't dare to attack a goose. Only take one goose though, otherwise it won't bond with the chickens. Goose eggs are edible and mainly used in hot dishes. Goose are hilarious, you won't regret it.
santanisme too true, my granny always had a goose, she said they were better guard dogs than dogs.
@@womensarmycorpsveteran2904 not better than guard dogs but better than just chickens
Young geese are called goslings
Primarch Khas they are much better
@@theotheseaeagle ah thx I didn't knew that, I'm not a native English speaker. So thx I learned something new today.
PS: The chickens typed the subtitles.
beraclive-Very fitting commentI noticed the many mistakes too-they are utterly imcomprehensible..
🐔🐔🐔🐔. 🐔🐔🐔 🐔!! 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔, 🐤🐣🐥🐥🐣🐣!!!
I think you're right!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh thats cute comment
Now I have to think of a room filled with chickens picking at small keyboards and all you hear is "prrprrprrprr"
Amazing to see the rooster of a group, if he finds food, he calls for the hens and feeds the fastest to come.
"We know nothing about chickens!" *Discovers nothing farmers haven't known for centuries.*
I have currently 7 hens, 1 cockerel and 3 chicks. They all have names and different personalities. I find chickens truly fascinating creatures, who else agrees?
Update!
Hello everyone, I don't understand how I have so many likes on this comment, but my hen family has increased. I am not entirely sure how many exactly I have now, but I have received more and now have around twenty five or so.
Absolutely! We have 14 hens, also all named and totally different from each other. I love them so much! I even train them and teach them little tricks, they are absolutely smart if they see a reason for doing something (e.g. getting food).
I agree chickens are very intelligent, have distinct personalities, etc. We always trained ours to do tricks, as well as some verbal and gesture commands to help us manage them and move them around as needed. There were many times that we observed startlingly intelligent behavior. I've known dogs that were much dumber. Some smarter, too, but there's probably some chickens out there that would give even the smartest dogs a run for their money. I wonder what the smartest chicken breed is.
What are your chickens names?
Me, I got 2 chickens, 2 orpingtons, but one sadly died
i want a chick
Just when I thought chickens were the one of the friendliest and simplest birds:
> Chicken eats a mouse
Koala Man >:D
Jubby one time my chicken ate a massive frog that was more like a small road than a frog!
Wild horses 937 You gotta love 'em.
Jubby I know
Jubby
yesss. i freaked
I love all of the chicken stories in these comments! I lived next door to my son for four years and his family had 10 hens. I enjoyed tossing vegetable and fruit peels and other leftovers over the fence and watching them dash madly for their snack. I moved into town and in the years since then, I feel guilty throwing those peelings and scraps away! At Christmas time, especially, I have an enormous pile of sweet potato and russet potato peels and always wish those chickens were next door!🐓🐓🐓
Why did you have to leave your so n after 10 years?
@@ZoneGlazed I was there 4 years. Moved closer to my workplace because I hated the long winter drives on ice.💀
Years ago when I had chickens 12 hens and one giant rooster, I had no problems with pests at all, bugs, snakes, rats you name it everything disappeared. What I thought was interesting is if the rooster found something wild to eat like a spider, mouse etc. he would stand next to it let out a unique call and the hens would run to that spot and fight to get that food. He was very protective and nurturing to all his ladies especially in the early morning when I would let the chickens out of the henhouse. When you own and get to know your chickens it’s amazing house smart and entertaining they are. Everyone has its own personality, just like the lady here I named everyone of them. Also you learn their calls when they’re hungry or especially when there’s a predator in the yard. They are very busy and they will keep you busy
Roosters are so misunderstood. There are absolutely wonderful birds. And yes it is endearing to see the way they take care of their flock.
I really, really dislike their noise but also live in a place with a ridiculous amount of poisonous snakes, like I'm pretty sure that a cobra got one of my beloved cats last year and since all these comments glow about the joy of chickens maybe l guess l should seriously consider getting them. I have noticed the personality thing when visiting a friend who has some. Pretty amusing stuff.
I love chickens; I raise them for eggs and as pets! They're my little buddies!!! And they're smarter than most people think!
Kim A. H. I love chickens as pets, and as food. I remember one time when I was young, my parents and I raised chickens for eggs, and we had extra roosters. They killed one and became our dinner, but I couldn't eat something I personally invested lol. But they are great sources of food too.
Kim A. H. completely agree, I keep chickens too and you're right they are a lot smarter than we give them credit for! I feed my girls a tray of oats every morning and my oldest is in the habit of using her claw to tip the tray so that all of the oats spill out towards her! that being said, I have another girl who once jumped off of my lap and straight into a fence. love them though :)
Kim A. H. Totally agree, I also have pet chickens and chickens are so smart!
LOL, that made me laugh! I love my girls too.
I was feeding my chickens little bits of bread and one of my hens nicked a whole slice of bread she then spent the next couple of minutes being persued by the rest of the flock until another hen grabbed the slice of bread of her and the chase continued.
I developed such an odd passion for chickens. I love everything about them, they’re beautiful, funny, sweet when you get to know them, interesting and actually really smart.
I hate that we see them as just food, when they’re really just such incredible creatures.
I hope one day more people can see chickens as more of a unique, and beautiful creature vs just a “dumb, unfeeling food animal”.
That's really cool. I'd love to live the farm life
People make that mistake about SO MANY animals. They are not stupid, and they all have unique personalities, just like we have.
I love my chickens too. They are the greatest mothers, I have 1 that sat on 27 eggs, she hatched and took care of all of them so good I couldn't believe it. I had rescued her, and she had never gotten to sit on an egg, nore had she seen another chicken get to sit on her eggs but she just did it and she is the best chicken in the world and I love all her babies.
Feel the same way ,they are most loving ,and have feelings ,are tame and understanding, Ilove them very much
Who is "we" ?
I see chickens as both food and pets 😄
I have two pet chickens right now and regularly eat other people's chickens 😂
I had a pet hen that died recently that I raised after her siblings tried to kill her when they were younger she was a timid little thing but very friendly and loved talking to me I miss her she was like a emotional support chicken in a way even though she wasn’t trained
Love hens to bits.ours used to hastily squat in front of us to be stroked or picked up. We were always almost being tripped up by their determination to enjoy a fuss. Ours were all rescued hens. What a delightful lady.
"they can't run fast" you haven't seen a chicken run m8
They look like tiny dinosaurs when they run
I love chickens. They are adorable. My fav bird.
Tryclyde Too bad that chickens eat feces, though.
***** Every single thing on our planet has a purpose, even feces. NOTHING would grow without it. It puts energy back into the soil. But we are not literally eating shit- just whatever grows from it. It's the circle of life, my friend.
Christine Makela and it moves us allllll!
Ok, but what do you think is in fertilizer? How do plants grow? If you walk in a forest, seedlings sprout in rotting trees, feces…now, if you are talking about agribusiness; the factory production of meat, dairy, etc, then I have to agree with you that it is 100% shit!
I love chickens
This was a wonderful documentary! I enjoyed every minute of it! How I wish all chickens were free range! Now that I know how smart they really are, it seems very cruel indeed to keep them in cages in barns without natural light. I am glad in the USA we now have laws about how chickens are treated. Yet I know there are still places that exist where there is animal cruelty.
I am slowly becoming more and more of a vegetarian, as I quit pork 100 percent. My beef consumption is almost minute. My chicken consumption is about 3 percent of my diet now. I just love animals so much. I received a baby chick when I was in first grade. WE had a group of five eggs that hatched in our first grade classroom. I was one of the winners to take a chick home. WE lived in the city! MY chick was the ONLY one that survived, and I could bring it back for show and tell. Then she got big enough, she had to go to my Aunt's and Uncle's farm to live. I was only 7 seven years old when Miss Peeps went away.
My parents waited until I was 15 years old to tell me Ms. Peeps was picked on by the other chickens so much, she had to be by herself. So one Sunday my cousin's family had her for Sunday dinner! Wow! I cried, and I was not happy! I asked why they waited so long to tell me? My folks said, "Gee why do YOU think we waited?" Then I hugged them, as I realized it was the right thing to do, and after all, this is sometimes the cycle of life. I felt like a hypocrite, as we were eating someone's chicken for dinner! Duh! Thanks for a great documentary, and for taking me back to wonderful childhood memories with my pet chick!
Love, from Oregon, Michelle
"They're the closest relative to T-Rex."
That makes me lmao, everytime I see the hens in the backyard I think Dinosaur. Haha
"They're the closest relative to T-Rex."
- is this stated in this vid?
- either way, they are NOT
My family used to have chicken farm when I was a kid. I play with them almost all day. We breed them for the eggs, and occasionally for the meat. It was fun to have natural alarm device, my family wakes up almost at the same time everyday. But then Asian Financial Crisis of 1998 crushes our farm and we have to sold it and living in city. Miss those old days of raising chicks up to laying it's first egg. And being a chicken raiser myself, these creature is one of man's best friend!
VladiSSius No one do not eat their best friends .
i love chickens bc their body is so fat and floofy while their head is the size of a walnut and they are so JIGLLY AND WOBBLY ❤❤
unbranded bleach FINALLY someone gets it!
Plus if you move their bodies, their heads remain perfectly frozen in place with internal chicken gyroscopes.
Haha exactly ,perfect discription.
TRUTH
Just FYI, they are so fat because we've selectively bred and genetically modified them over time to be extremely fat, especially the ones raised for their flesh. Consider not using chickens in any capacity after seeing this documentary. The chickens will appreciate it.
Never thought I would learn so much from a simple farm animal
Subtitles: "there are nearly seven billion demons on earth" accurate lol
Why can't American TV be like this? Nice to watch, educational, well done. I stopped watching TV in the USA about a couple of years ago. All I ever seen was BS. Good video, I enjoyed it.
Why do you have to single out the US? There are tons of educational channels that you can watch, such as National Geographic or Discovery Channel, both of which are created in the US. I think you've only seen BS because you're full of it.
Jun Liu Those channels are from paid services such as cable or satellite. Even those tend to suck. Last time I turned on the idiot box, all I could find was cheap entertainment and heavily scripted/censored news. We have one public TV station here and it is rare it shows anything worthwhile. I'm not paying some company as much as I pay for internet for a hundred shitty channels when I can surf the web and watch things like this chicken documentary (which I enjoyed rather much).
Jun Liu
Shark week! Shark week! LOL!
Too much politics, money and BS on US TV!
agree !!! I quit TV 20 years ago. I listen to shortwave radio instead.
Totally blew my mind when one of my chickens stole a live mouse from the cat and ate it. Also mind bending is the fact that the cats steer clear of the chickens cuz the chickens will peck & chase if the get too close.
It's the same with small dogs lol if he even dared to kill the rooster he will almost die
My cat is thoroughly traumatized by our chickens, we had a small flock of young birds and they liked to get into mischief. They saw the cat hanging around and got curious, they surrounded him and he just bolted straight to the door to come inside, they chased this poor cat all the way
Haha not just cats! Dogs, children, mailman, you name it!
I had a feral kit come up, starving, no larger than a tennis ball, found him on the roost next to a hen, it was freezing weather. I took him warm feed for a few days. He now lives with the hens, goes in at nite with them. I’ve seen him watch the sky and helps warn them of hawks. My two other barn cats stay In Place (hay barn and other in horse barn).
My chickens protected me from getting bitten by a brown reckless,(spider) black widow(spider) and centipedes. I was wearing sandals and they saw them before I did. Quick little sweet hearts. They eat all kinds of pests! Loved them!!
I've heard that you introduce new hens quietly at night. Reasoning is they think they've been there the whole time-- not sure how much I believe that, but for whatever reason I've heard success stories. Much less stress on the chickens AND humans.
I loooove chicken company❣️
This is honestly my dream. Just living on a beautiful farm with 100+ rescued battery hens
Same
Wouldn’t you rather be on a pig farm, I thought you liked miss piggy 🐷
What happens when they all get old and die?
@@elonmust7470 dog food.
@@Space.Ghost. No I was speaking in terms of rescue animals, one dsy they'll all be gone unless there're more that need rescuing.
This was great! Most people just don't realize how smart, social, and cuddly chickens can be, it truly bothers me how abused they are.
I have a hen who jumps on me for chicken hugs!! I Love her!! Please take care!
they can be polar opposites as well...
we only hear about all of the "nice" ones...
at least the asshole chickens still taste like... chicken. (life on the farm, ok? the asshole chickens kind of self-nominate for the Coq au Vin pot...)
@@coreylawson1103 wtf u sayin boy?
@@ang.etrav747 he says we eat the mean ones lol
Def eat the mean ones….you need a mean rooster that will attack everything except humans it’s a delicate balance
Excellent video! I love my clucks, they do all their own personalities and fun little behaviors. I never thought I would be so captivated and love my chickens the way I do! What a great creature!!
I am so happy an honored to find myself on a comment page with like minded people regarding treatment of animals, thank you all.
What i learned by watching this video is that chickens are smart. They know how to organize themselves and they respect leadership and hierchy. I wont be surprise if one day, they would band themselves and create a union and demand for a better housing, much tastier food for them and R&R...
The chickens are getting organised!
"They're revolting."
"Finally, something we agree on."
too damn funny - thanks
havent you seen the movie?
The Republicans in the USA have banded together to fight any kind of Liberal, bleeding heart, activity that supports any kind of human or animal-rights on this planet.
@@jameswest4819 I applaud your speaking against the national socialist republicans anywhere anytime, even to such a small audience.
Don't forget about their disregard for the rights of this PLANET.
They lived millions of years to evolve into this...AMAZING!!!
Anyone else think that the battery farmer picked out the best looking retiring hens for the camera? I've seen some very sad and sorry ex-battery hens.
You can never know too much about chickens.. THIS is a fantastic video! Everyone who raises chickens in their yard or on their farm is living the good life. Take excellent care of them and they will in turn, provide well for us. Thank you for posting this exceptional collection of poultry facts and wonderful sequences of MY favorite bird!
I think everyone who raises chickens figures a lot of this information out on their own pretty quick. Growing up with chickens in our backyard, I figured out how to train ours to do all kinds of tricks. Their different vocalizations were easy to learn. Their moods and body language became quite obvious with enough observation. The results of the various experiments in this video shouldn't surprise any chicken owner.
Factory farming is cruel and unnatural. The chickens on the farm I work at could never thrive anyplace like that - they need space, fresh air, and good food.
Preach. Nothing sadder, more broken, and yet perfectly legal than a battery hen.
I know right? I hate factory farming it's the worst!
You know what else is unnatural, the device you just used to write this comment lol who gives a shit about unnatural, it's not unhealthy and that's all that matters.
@@BigAssNigga311 lol it is probably some of the most unhealthy foods you can eat
As long as human population continues to grow exponentially stuff like huge factory farming will continue to stay alive (unless we all decide to eat lab grown meat)
Very beautiful birds🐓
Chickens have a culture and a language it is easy to comprehend, even for humans. Learn them and you're fine. What is fascinating is what a chicken CAN learn if given motivation and encouragement. A few of our chickens were hand raised and lived indoors with the family. They had quite a lot of time to learn an astounding number of tricks and behaviors. Having the time and resources; It is amazing what they are capable of learning!!!! (we never had more than a few dozen at a time)
I love chickens they are so damn smart. It makes me cry how badly people treat them.
We need to stop animal cruelty in factory farms, not a single living being deserves to live their whole life in a cage without sunshine and being able to move.
It's not healthy for them, nor for human consumption either.
There should be rights for animals to live a happy, normal life too.
They have feelings too and deserve the very best treatment from us.
My total admiration for Jane and her wonderful work to help these animals! We could all follow her example. 👏👍
I love chickens too although I do eat them I try to get them from good farms.
@Naurius... and you'll probably consume that suffering energy from them and wonder why you're miserable. You probably have hidden hurt inside of you for your cruelty. I hope you heal it soon and become your true self. Many blessings
@Naurius , hang on to your day job.
@Naurius Factory farming kind of seems like hurting chickens for fun (or rather for enjoyment) to me.
@Naurius Well enjoyment fits better than fun. Because factory farming makes them suffer and the ends are eating them or our eggs, which is enjoyment considering that we don't need to eat them to survive (if you don't believe humans can live healthily on a vegan diet, you have to at least agree that it's not necessary to eat so much eggs and meat that it's necessary to farm them on such a large scale and you just as well might farm less of them under better conditions to still receive the health benefits of eating eggs).
So while making chicken suffer on purpose is definitely more malicious than farming them under terrible conditions, the same factors make it morally bad (in my opinion): You are making someone suffer for your own ends (be that food or the pure enjoyment of their suffering).
Does that make sense? (I do realize you might not agree with a lot of the premises that lead up to this analysis but this is how I see it and explaining them as well would go way overboard)
I love chickens. They are fun, adorable, entertaining, delicious, useful and a whole lot of things that you can't say about other animals. They are easily one of my top 3 favorite animals.
Those subtitles are hilarious! I had to watch it again because I was laughing so much the first time.
RUclips 4 days into the quarantine:
You wanna take a peck into the secret life of chickens?
Me: let’s see what they’re up to.
bruh same omfg
@Johnny Steffy my Dad-n-law said this, and it changed my life: "Knowing *how* something works makes it even more amazing to know *that* it works."
Like you, I used to miss the mystery. Not anymore, though, not since I heard his son say that. 😁
@CraZy Jay OMG. Too funny but profoundly deep.
@@RoxieRedwood yes, it seems that I enjoy learning new stuff so much! I'm 55, became a high school teacher at 40 after career of illustration and nonprofit arts grantmaker. I get a really silly joy when I learn things sometimes, like that wind is created, in part, because of the movement of warm and cool air. Wow! My kids feel me when I have that wonder!
@@hardware144 take a pill. I dont do FB or even like MSM. News. I guess you didnt listen to the narrators at all. Take us out of a cage after 3 years and we'd be screwed. Eat goose or duck instead. I've never had an egg try to transfix me.
I grew up around chickens for many years and I can whole heartedly say that these animals are probably the most therapeutic and relaxing to watch and be around. When you watch them long enough you start to get a sense that they have their own little community going on. You'll learn who the leader is. Who the most desired hen is. Who the least desired rooster is. You'll watch young chickens grow up to be dominant chickens. You'll see the personality build within each chicken that'll make them very distinct. There's so much more to chickens. You'll also learn how to determine what their body language means. What the sounds they make mean. There is so much to learn from chickens! honestly!! I mean I'm still gonna eat them regardless. But still!!! Go buy some chickens to raise and keep watching them everyday. It's kinda like watching a live tv show except with chickens. entertaining stuff.
watching this with captions on brings a whole new level to this video😂
@Dan M omg you're so right 🤣
😬😂😂wow
I feel such emotion well up in my heart when animals are returned to as close as their natural lives as is possible.
🤗😪🐔💞🐓😪🤗
I want a chicken rescue farm now 🧐. I want to save all of the poor factory chickens who don’t deserve to live like that. 😢
The only way you can do that is if you buy the chickens who aren’t laying from the factory farms. Or you can buy only free range chicken products if you wish to encourage chickens to have better lives on farms.
A brilliant video. Thank you. I too have taken in chickens (from battery cages and deep-litter sheds) and it's a joy to watch them adjust to natural surroundings. One moment that sticks in my memory was when some hens that had to be coaxed out of their new night-time shelter/hen house stood bewildered on the grass on the first morning and looked up at the sky as though in wonder at the space or the fact that there was no ceiling! (Or were they reverting to natural behaviour and checking for predators? It didn't seem like it.)
I bought some cage raised chickens one time....they ate rocks for a week or so after I brought them home... lol
Not all heroes wear capes and that lady is a hero 🙂👍💖🐣
Jane you’re a wonderful woman, bless you!
It's a breath of fresh air to see someone doing something just wonderful for creatures that are victims of major abuse in the food industry (I'm not vegan and I say this). God bless Jane and her tiny yet ferocious feathered dinosaurs
I also help chickens I have 100 or more
yeh i eat chickens but gosh the abuse there is too much
Tess Tess So it’s ok to abuse animals? Read her comment first before you say that. She is talking about the abuse not how eating chickens is bad. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
@Tess Tess Appeal to nature fallacy, because something is natural doesn't mean it is moral or necessary. The vegan life is very sustainable, far more so than animal agriculture which contributes to around 50% of global emissions and plant consumption. 60 Billion land animals are killed each year, guess what they eat. Living like this is destroying our planet, causing heart disease, contributing to diabetes and cancer. Meat eating for 7 billion people is unsustainable, unhealthy and causes unnecessary suffering to billions of sentient beings.
Sad
Chickens will eat anything that won't eat them.
Or die trying.
Not avacado
Nor cannabis 🍗🤷♂️
matismf Yes, they had a hay day at our Texas property when we had a bloom of grasshoppers!! And those eggs were splindiferous!! Very rich and yolks were orange!! And they about ran me over to get out of the henhouse to capture those morsels. What a hoot watching them chase them down. We still laugh about it 25 years later. Bless their little hearts!!🍳
@@movedchannels5375 the T Rex lives on I guess
@@movedchannels5375 The mother wasn't there to help? Sorry for the loss 🙏
I love my chickens. They are incredibly smart. When I talk to them, they listen and respond with their chicken noises. So friendly and lovely.
Chickens waddling as fast as they can when you call them for feeding is one of the most rewarding things in life.
When I was young my family had over 300 of them, no coop, no barn, no fence, but just orchard, during the night they flew up onto tree branch and sleep.
My Golden Lace Polish does that and I'm 11 years old we have a coop to keep the raccoons and predators away but I can't reach her and she barely comes down when it snows. Do you have any idea to get her to come down I've tried worms and treats but I just can't get her down? HELP MEH!!!
Nope.avi
Back then I was in Asia, there no such things as snow.
Have you tried using a gun? a few bullets might work for taking down. (joking)
Well, my family, we have a little code between us and our chickens, we make a sound that has absolutely no meaning for human but these keys sound is uniques and distinct to chicken. When using the sound the chicken know it is us human (their owner) is calling for them like lunchtime or food time for them or 'shuu!' them away.
It is very necessary that you training the young with the basic command like this (the come here or rally them to you and to get them away from you in case you are busy and need space). And not just sound from mouth/lip but also include gestures or so call body language.
Once they get to understand and follow your command, then the rest new generation chicks to comes will be easy to control as they will follow the big ones and recognise your command.
For example, I stand near the feeding area by just standing some chicken nearby in the area would already head up to see what I was doing, and if I clap my hands and try to make the loud noise (Kuuuuk! ku ku ku ku Kuuuuuuuuuu~) to calling them and repeating like 2 or 3 more times, but also watch to make sure most chickens were there present in front and not like half are absent, if so then continue calling and maybe move myself to other connor of the area in case the sound echo didn't reach the missing one and I usually get to see like 2 to 6 'running late chicken' but that is okay coz they are here and it time to feed them by throw food in the air scatter and drop to ground.
Sometimes my father uses this calls to gather our chicken and make the rough population counting, and at one point we reach almost 600. And that was too much to keep so my dad use this call as well to capture the chicken and gave to a neighbouring farm. (Snake hate chicken's poops) Back then I was young and sad that our chicken reduces to about 120 to 150, but not long after like about a year and a half, the chicken repopulate back to a steady number like 300 ish.
So yeah, All in all, it pretty much the bond, instinct, and signal between chickens and the human owner. If you don't have this kind of relationship with your chicken, then you are having a problem with the one you were asking about and the only solution is "to uses force (that may seem violence like using net or trap or something).
If you plan to continue pet chicken for more generation in future then it not too late to train them with sound command, you can even make up your unique sound, but remember that if you going to use that 'unique sound' then use it consistently like every time before giving them foods and they will remember this sound mean food or calling depend on situation you training them.
I am not professional of all chicken, I was merely a country boy and that was my personal experience and how I command them when I was young about schooler ages.
I hope my experience story could help you, and Good Luck.
Wasn't it fun, every day is an Easter egg hunt.
Um, chickens can't fly??
Oh, yes they do fly if their wings feathers are not clipped!!!
Lucky Loyd..... One of my favorite pet hen, a dominant but nice Silver Laced Wyandotte, refused to submit to a baby chick who turned out to be a beautiful Rhode Island Red Rooster. His name was Big Red Rhonda, because I though he was a she He was very attached rooster and bonded with me like a dog but I had to put him up for adoption. A lovely lady adopted him as a pet and he became a house pet with a lovely back yard. I do miss him, he use to follow me around the yard like a dog and loved to be held.
“A source of protein we don’t need to kill the bird to get”
Factory farms that grind male chicks to make feed for female chickens: hold my hard boiled egg
My dad had a rooster that drank beer with him every day. Dad would go out and feed the whole flock and then sit at the picnic table with the empty pie tin he brought food on. As soon as the rooster her him pop the top on the van of beer he would fly up to the table and dad would pour him some beer in the tin. He would drink it up. Them he'd get rowdy with the hens. Lol
i have a test on monday and its a big one
why am i watching a video about chickens
I am in exactly the same position xD. Exam on Monday and here I am procrastinating on a documentary of chickens!
+KritzkriegKane I dont have a test, why am i?
i got a test to but its on chickens so im good
I don't know, you figure that out
Delightful doco about wonderful chooks🐣🐓 Backyard chickens are the best; and their eggs are an added bonus. Hens Rock🤘🏽
my chickens are never so mean. But I treat them like family and spend a lot of time with them
*-**_0:53_**-* This... This is the most majestic chicken I've ever seen
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I love chickens...their mannerism is so cute as they waddle about heads bobbing etc..!
I've always loved chickens. I actually wanted one for a pet when I was younger. This was a Very interesting documentary. I had no idea that chickens hunted prey! The lady that rescues the chickens and re-homes them is absolutely awesome! I'd love to one day own a huge farm that takes in animals like this... I see there is a "Private Life of Cows" so I'm going to add that to my To Watch list too. I love cows too.
My dad has 23 chickens and they are cool they let you hold them and they cme to you when you call em..they lay blue eggs so cool
Lissa Bruce I love chickens! My peers often think its weird to love such an animal. I have my own flock and the leader is Daisy even though she is the smallest of the bunch, which I find hilarious. Anyway I love this documentary! Going to add to my watch list right now.
Lol my rooster just attacked me..because i picked up a chicken to hug
Lissa Bruce I was in our coop a few months ago and our lead hen caught a mouse and ate it live right in front of me--I was shocked! I guess we don't need a cat to keep the mice down.
Lissa Bruce I was in our coop a few months ago and our lead hen caught a mouse and ate it live right in front of me--I was shocked! I guess we don't need a cat to keep the mice down.
Ive had chickens my whole life and have studied them thoroughly. They are both really smart and really dumb but very interesting nonetheless. Learning what sounds they make mean what, how they observe, how high a hawk is and they can still tell what it is etc.
This also could have been another hour, as in I wish there was more to watch. Great little view into the world of chickens
"It's bad news if you're delicious."
_Hannibal has entered the chat_
I've kept chickens, and like so many of the commenters, observed them with much pleasure. And with fear, remembering their dinosaur past, and thinking, "What if chickens were 10 feet tall?"
I can sit around my Chickens until I loose track of time, watching them peck around, take dust baths and sort out their pecking order 😂 .. Never gets boring
The worst, and most hilarious CC yet.
"Seven billion demons"
Lol...the irony.
This was the most informative n amazing video of chickens I've seen. The egg demonstration was what I was in search of when I came across your video, wow. Thank you for letting us in to your farm Jane your a true Chicken whisper, thank u for the work you do... both of you truly have helped me on my journey of chicken farming in the united states. THANK YOU so much for the knowledge.
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This is Jeff’s wife commenting now. I do some pet-sitting every now and then and the pets include chickens. I find their little clucks and chirps relaxing and comforting and I like the feel of their pecks on my hand when I feed them by hand. They each have separate personalities. Some are shy while others are the first to greet me.
4 weeks into the quarantine: I'm starting to lose my sanity and my browser history is proof of that.
It's going to be okay...it really will be hang in there.
You will be okay. Trust in Jesus.
5 months at the most and i empathise with you, its gettin boring up in here!
@@lindarice6679 It may get worse. but only because people forget to wake up and use their noodles to live right. I hope October will not see an uptick in number of cases. If so just know that this challenge is what we need as a species. Wear protection if possible. On YT George Webb Truth Leaks gives a lot of info that is useful. I've had time to tend to a little city garden. Some people in my neighborhood have a few chickens. I've also planted a tulip poplar for the bees to enjoy making their antibiotic. That antibiotic, propolis may be the only way they're going to be able to survive.
I am watching survival/prepper videos all the time
I'm up at 2 am during quarantine watching a documentary about chickens.
luckyotter it's 2:20 am here so you are not alone 😖
Me 2
We all are... 😂
@@donnamurray6212 for me it's 2:21
Same 🐣😵
My family's had chickens since early 2019. Sadly, the last one died earlier this month, but she was so lucky to have owners who cared about and protected her from both predators and suffering the miserable fate of being cramped in a cage full of other chicken's corpses.
I only integrate at night! They are friendlier when they "wake up together" instead of being thrown in during daytime.
The shape training, WOW!!!!! When I was a kid, they had chickens in little cages with a piano or various games to have them do, and a cup on the wall where corn would come out when they got it right, and yes, I knew as a child that chickens can be smart enough to learn these things, even how to play the piano.