What?! My rooster laid an egg!
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- I was very surprised to discover that my young rooster had suddenly laid an egg!
In some chicken breeds it isn't easy to see the gender, especially when they're still young. The first signs in those breeds that give a clue about the gender is actually the behaviour. So when she started to crow, well...
It’s been a while since my last chicken story and I enjoy these funny feathered friends so much, they are such great characters. So I was very happy to be able to share this exciting new adventure with you guys.
For those of you wondering, I got her early this year as an egg. She is a Barbue du Grubbe, in Dutch a "Grubbe baardkriel", meaning: they have a beard (baard) and kriel means it's a small breed (bantam) and they originate from Grubbe. That's a part of the city of Antwerp in Belgium. This breed is the tailless variation of the Barbue d'Anvers (in Dutch Antwerpse baardkriel).
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I love the fact that your little tomboy chicken sought you out for safety. She knows who's her Dad.
She not even attack him when he go to see her in incubation phase
That insane trust for chicken
That's what I was gonna say.....She knows where it's safe with her Daddy!
@@gumarkuk Absolutely, she kept an eye on him for sure, but was just so chill. It helped he wasn't leaving with it and she could still see it.
please tell me the name of this amazing man.
@@gumarkuk Is it? My hens never attacked me. A few would fuss up a storm and sounded like dinosaurs, but they never harmed me.
My day was absolutely terrible and this video made it shine. Thank you, Alwyn, and all the people supporting that!
I hope your day gets better!
please tell me the name of this amazing man.
Same here😔
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I volunteered at an animal rescue center that had chickens. The local government did not allow roosters. One day we heard a rooster crowing which was odd because all we had was hens. It was discovered that the smallest hen we had was now crowing like a rooster. She ended up being named the general. She was the smallest but was very much large and in charge.
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Small in stature, large in presence
I wonder why they did not allow roosters
She may crow like a Cockerell but she doesn't have the male neck or tail feathers, which is always a give away. Bless her she is sweet, kept coming to you for comfort when her beau was coming on too strong.
It wasn't crowing it is just chicken noises.
@@jsnanax4. that's definitely a hen crowing.
The hen coming to you for safety from the excited rooster is so sweet. When my family had chickens, this one hen, Princess, would place herself behind me whenever Sotis, another hen, was bullying her. She learned quickly that I would place myself between them and guard her. They are for sure not as stupid as often portrayed. Chickens are able to perform quite fascinating tricks, and if I get a flock again in the future, I would love to clicker train them. Beautiful, misunderstood creatures.
This is so much more wholesome than the way I've always been taught to "reset" incubating chickens! I spent half my childhood at a farm, and had been taught to give chickens who wouldn't stop incubating a cool/cold bath, which obviously stresses them out quite a bit, but this way just respects their natural rhythms and I love it
Sometimes you have to "reset" them if it's very hot outside and they aren't leaving the nest to drink water. I usually leave them alone, but if they start looking dehydrated then you have to boot them out!!
@cluckcluckchicken that's true! I'm from a tropical country and that was one of the main annoyances during summer at the farm, and now I think about it, may have been another reason why the bath thing was recommended. There would always be 3 or 4 chickens trying to nest during summer and at that point, it was bucket bath time
Chickens go broody when they hit a certain body temperature and it's easy for it to happen in hot weather. Being broody also stresses them since they'll forgoe food and water in favor of sitting on eggs for days at a time so really it's a coin toss whether it's best to let them stay at it or soak them.
The bath is to lower their body temperature which makes them snap out of it. but you dont have to bath them you can also just put them in another run with food and water and a roost but without access to a nesting place for a few days until they get over it. Thats what i do as i dont have room for more chicks at present.
That was heartwarming, to see the frustrated girl becoming such a happy mother! Thank you for helping her achieve her dream.
You have the most compassionate heart! Knowing NONE of her eggs were good, and still she stayed in the nest eggless...that made me so sad! But, you came to the rescue, and now she has her family! Bravo! BTW, I am delighted to see a new video! You have been missed!
My mini rooster is sleeping on his pillow in my window. I have a whole flock outside and 4 inside for various reasons. Magical personalities when you let them just be. I love my chickens.❤❤❤❤❤
That's so lovely, give em a pat for me:)
❤ I wish I could have chickens 🐔 ❤
OMG that mamma's face,so sweet ❤Thank you for helping her have the family she wanted! So glad to see you posted a video, was missing you!
What a journey - a heartwarming one at that. Those little chicks have the best mum - and one that can teach her little roosters how to crow 😁 and teach her little hens how to run to dad when they're not feeling safe. Great job finding the fertile eggs for her too! That is one happy little family! 💜 Thankyou!
Thank you for giving the little hen the gift of being a Momma. She's so gentle natured & is a wonderful Mom. I guess she's not a rooster after all 😂 great job Alwyn ❤️🎉
The amount of love & RESPECT ooozing from this amazing human for this precious soul is everything!!🥹🥰 It’s not "just a chicken"… it’s a living creature with feelings & he did everything he could to HELP her ~ THESE are the types of humans the world needs more of!!! 🥰❤️🥰
There is an old saying that I heard many years ago (I’m 70)….
“A whistling woman or a crowing hen is sure to come to some bad end”
I love to whistle. I’m still here. 🤣
Me too
Same
Chickens are seriously remarkable birds. It's really hard to think of them as just food creatures.
Exactly! Stop eating them people!
They are friends, not food! In my humble opinion.
@@jessicafrench2538, @mariecleo214 , shush it, i may be a meat eater but i do agree that chickens are underrated pets that's why i have 3 tamed pet hens to comfort me when lonely, but seriously, don't tell us to stop eating chickens, it's not like we tell you all to stop eating fruits and vegetables. >:/ if you ask me which side do i support, it's a 50/50. And don't you dare start me with the arguments.
@@mariecleo214what do you think about predators from the wild that kill and eat chickens then?
Maybe... don't think any of them as food creatures? Our food comes from a precious life, may it be loveable animals or plants with a remarkable fighting spirit. Just respect it, don't waste, and if you can affect it to help them to have a good life while they are alive.
My mom says when she was a child they had a rooster that would fly up on the pasture fence and crow like crazy, then jump down and lay an egg on the ground--every morning! She loved it but it made her father furious!
Wow! I love happy endings ❤Thank you for the premiere 👏Good to see Mamma a happy girl with her chicks 😃🥰😍🐔🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣
This could be a very enjoyable children's film for kids as young 3. My now grown son would be glued to nature films like this at age and older. I enjoy them too. This one was very well done and entertaining; I liked that there was no talking and the music selection was perfect.
Wie meine Antje 😅 Es ist kein Hahn bei den Zwergis, also hat sie den Job übernommen. Sie kräht ein bißchen und passt auf die anderen kleinen Mädels auf 😊
I had a Belgian d'Anver Bantam just like this, called Zelda. She would come when called and would sit on my shoulder. I had her for a long time and was very sad when she died. She was a very friendly dinosaur!
I've never seen a breed with such a shape. How cute she is. When she felt threatened she ran back to daddy. I wish her all the happiness with her adopted babies.
Ameraucana/easter egger chicken.
@@PhantomQueenOne He answers this in the video description - she's a Barbue du Grubbe.
@@azuradawn5683 Ah, it looks like the Ameraucana pullets I had. They were very sweet girls. I was pissed when my ex-stepmother make me give away my four chickens.
She gets to be a mommy after all! This warms my heart.
Thank you for what you did for her.
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He wasn't even there a minute and was already chasing her. 😂 Good thing that daddy was there to protect her. Bless their hearts. 💚 Alwyn, you truly are heaven sent.
Thank you for sharing this story with us. I am going through a bit of a stressful situation now and it will pass. It is just very difficult while I am still in it. I am in the process of moving forward and doing everything I love to get there. Thank you so much for bringing joy into our lives by showing that there is love and that solutions exist in all the challenging moments we all face in our life. Keep posting more videos when you can. Thank you. ❤
I don't comment on videos often but I've been watching your channel for a few years now and have learned a lot from them, too, so I wanted to share my appreciation. thank you for having such a compassionate heart and I hope to continue watching for many more years! I'm young now so I can't do too much but I hope that when I'm older, I'll be able to help birds (and other animals!) just like you do. 💖
I second this
She was so determined to be a momma. So glad she had you to help her along. Maybe in the future her little beau's swimmers will hit the mark and she won't need to adopt. (Or at least, she won't be so anxious and stay brooding longer than necessary if he's firing blanks.)
I have a little bantam rooster. Their energy is next level, so it's wonderful that you were monitoring them both. He'll pick up all sorts of things (sticks, tiny pebbles, pine straw) and tidbit like crazy to try and impress the ladies. Or course, after a while, they began to side eye his tidbitting since it didn't always involve tasty treats. I've also had some hens that tried to crow. In those cases, it seemed like fussing between old couples, and they were mimicking one another's sounds just to be sassy. Of course, there are multiple reasons that could happen. I'm glad you were able to help your little hen become a mother!
I was so excited to see a new video posted! You are very compassionate. You see that she wanted a family and took the steps to make her a Mom. I can see how much she loves her Dad when she goes to him for protection 💜 I love the colors in her feathers. The baby chick you held had beautiful coloring as well 😊
When I was a kid, my grandfather would ask us...if a rooster layed an egg on the peak of the roof, which way would it fall?
This reminds me of a little bantam hen I had growing up who grew male feathers, a larger comb and waddle, and started crowing after our rooster flew away! She was the sweetest little thing and it was so strange to watch her essentially turn into a rooster😅
It is an example of spontaneous sex reversal which can happen in a few species chickens being one of them. Its pretty rare but usually spured on by the lack of a rooster. Something similar to this happens in lions were females will grow manes and act like male lions when one of the other male lions goes missing.
@@midnightsan9917> NO such thing as sex reversal. in any species, You cannot change what God gave you, same in animals.
@@jsnanax4. Clownfish can go from male to female. Very literally, the fish that was once male can lay eggs. Ignoring reality is not what God wants from you.
@@jsnanax4. There are numerous species that change sex, as others have said here. There are also species that have sexes beyond male/female, along with species that have just one sex and (obviously) still reproduce. I hope you'll consider learning a bit more about the actual science here rather than sticking your head in the sand - this world is far more interesting than you give it credit for...
@@jsnanax4. Um, yea, there is scientific proof that there are animals that can switch sex for any reason. Usually the lack of males or females in a wide area. There are animals who evolved to have this ability as it helps ensure their species' survivability.
My Toulouse Goose, Bruce laid an egg. He became Lucy! Much happiness today in the NE!
My friend had a bearded dragon named Bruce... whio also laid an egg!
A crowing hen is incredibly rare. You are a very lucky man, to encounter such a wonderful creature. And that fluffy rooster is adorable too :)
The hen looks just like my own small pet rooster. They have the same face, with this cute beard. I felt like I was watching my own chicken. And I would love to see how the family is doing in the future.
Great video!
Pretty sure this is how basilisks are born lol
Only if you give it to a toad and allow it to hatch
Feathered foster family!! Too cute
Thank you for taking care of her with so much kindness. 😊
This is why math is important, children. If you can't count you can easily find yourself raising someone else's kids.
It takes a community… 😂
We have a couple flocks of Urban Partridges that live in storm channels/creeks by my apartment. We can usually hear them most evenings and early mornings. And sometimes catch them sliding down a lil hill in the winter. Keep on taking most excellent care of those feathered lil buddies!
This is the only channel I never press “skip” on the ads. Thank you for all you do.
This was a perfect example of chicken math. Great story, it's amazing how fast she went from acting like a rooster to being a hen after the cute little guy showed up.
I have a hen who crows. Apparently happens when there isn't a rooster around, a female will take on the male role. Thankyou for sharing this experience with us ❤
I never knew I needed to see a chicken in a flower pot, but it made my day!
I find it fascinating that sometimes a hen will start crowing and even start to look more rooster-like (growing longer tail feathers, for example), usually when there's no biological rooster in the flock. When you grow up and read about more complicated parts of nature, that you didn't read as a kid, you really understand how many variations there are of life. Humans aren't alone in changing s3x (humans just need the help of medicine or surgery sometimes, unlike some animals who suddenly produce the required hormones themselves), gay partnerships and being intersex / hermaphrodite. It's cool. Makes me so sad to see people of the world deny that it is part of nature, too. How boring would the world be if there was only one way to exist. I wish people got along better.
What a beautiful and heart-touching story of a Tomboy Mommy Hen! God bless you for your compassion and nobility.
I have a fantail pigeon who looks like a male and sounds like a female. I used to believe she was a boy until she laid an egg. She is a lady goon and a mommy's little bird now.
The cutest crowing girl I've ever seen on RUclips! ❤🥰 She's such a sweetheart and the new boy's a wee handsome and fluffy feathered lad! 😊 Alwyn, you truly have a heart of gold for all the animals who come to you, thank you for the incredible amount of hard work, effort and time that it takes for you to do this. 👏🏻
Wow, I think that's one of the nicest, and kindest things I've seen. She was already safe and healthy, and you made her life so much happier and enriched 🙂
Aww that was SO sweet! She is now a very happy mamma and the chicks have a wonderful mamma. What a lovely happy ending! ❤
That was really heartwarming. Go figure I tend to tear up whenever there's a loss of life but in the end it all came together perfectly. I'm very grateful for other kind souls out there where animals can feel safe and protected around. And even though it's not much, hopefully with what I donate now will at least get these guys a few treats if not a few meals. Thank you again for sharing this with us all
What a wonderful way to help another being.
Baardjes are absolut great Mommys ❤
Many years ago, when my late mother was a child growing up on a farm, they had a duck who had laid eggs and was sitting on them. Something happened to her, and she died, so my grandmother put the eggs under a nesting hen. She hatched a batch of baby chicks and baby ducklings. She accepted them all as her own. Eventually, the baby ducks found the water with the help on another duck and got in the pond. The poor mother chicken went crazy with fear! She thought her babies would drown! That's all I was told. Your solution was perfect and solved her problem. You, my dear sir, are amazing!
A mother's love is an ocean deep, no matter how many pairs of feet in the family. X
I did not wake up today expecting to see a rooster lay an egg
Looks like a hen. Sometimes dominant hens will “crow” like this. If she was the only chicken then that might have been the reason as well, they are flock animals and need company of others.
Is this the chicken equivalent of how Seahorses do it?
Nah, it's a hen. Hen's crow when there's no roosters around.
@@Gilicus18793420blazingfury Not usually but it can happen.
Fijn dat het allemaal gelukt is, en heel erg leuk om te zien. Met vriendelijke groet Joke Blokland & Teus van Houwelingen uit Noordeloos.
What a BEAUTIFUL story! Thank you for sharing with all of us...GOD BLESS! 🙏💗
I affectionately call my chickens that act like this "transhender" and let them choose if they want to hang out with the hens or the bachelor flock. Does the bird still crow I wonder?
Cute
@protect_trans_lives thank you 😊 right now I have 2 birds who were born roosters but spend their day on the nest building the nest and making little happy sounds. They never crow or fight or try to mate with the hens. They seem happy so I just let them be.
@@dragonbowlsupper Wonderful. Sounds like they're living the dream. :) :D
that's such a cute pun! I think it's easy for us humans to forget that animals can be intersex too, after all.
a chick of ours didn't stop wanting to incubate either, no matter how quickly we took the eggs away.. (and having no rooster)
I did the same as you and locked her out for a while and luckily shes slowly starting to spend more time in the garden herself now again :)
I love the ending… happy momma chicken ❤
Alwyn, you are an animal superhero! What a interesting and sweet little hen! Flying to you for protection from the amorous rooster was too darling. If you treat your beautiful daughters like this little hen, very, very lucky young ladies they are! I simply loved this video. As always, God Bless!!💞💞
7:24 aww - poor little girl. And . . . I thought you were going to do that :)🐣🐓🌷🌱
What beautiful chicks and their little mother so happy, like hens love to be. Thank you so much for sharing this. Surely brightens up the day :) ❤️💞☀️
Cute dinosaur
What a beautiful mumma
…Well, that’s one way to find out it’s a girl! 😅
Lol, she might also have changed genders, I know peacocks can do that in rare cases!
Aww! A vergin mother 😁 Now she still doesn't know how chicks are made! 👀😆
Well she's not a virgin, she's just (probably) infertile - so if we're going biblical, she's Mary's sister Elizabeth, that had a "miracle baby" through angelic intervention.
@@oq1106 How would you know? 🤷 Did I miss the 'act' on camera?
As always, love the amazing job and enthusiasm you provide to all fur and feather friends alike! ❤❤❤
As a trans guy, thanks for supporting your oddball chicken's journey to happiness. Some of us creature are weird, but all we want is love and support! You did good by your little chicken!
She’s a beautiful chicken. Gorgeous colours.
It’s uncommon, but some hens can display more male dominate traits. Some even get longer tail feathers, as well as a bigger comb. There’s occasions where they sort of transition in a sense, and take on these characteristics a bit later in life gradually. I don’t know the details as to why this happens, but it’s incredibly interesting to see
I noticed her comb and wattles decreased in size and redness once you introduced the roo. We've had hens at the top of the pecking order behave similarly when we didn't have roosters around
Thinking some chickens are roosters always happens when you get new breeds 😂
Now let's see if she is a good mum, or if she doesn't give a f**** like most of the do
It's possible it has both genders. Really rare in chickens, but not impossible. The eggs will probably always be infertile, but there's a chance, I think. She still makes a fantastic foster mom though.
My girl chicken thinks she's a rooster, too 😂❤. Her crow is the cutest thing ever.
She's like, "Dad, I don't know who this young man is! Can you help?" 😏
I was thinking, they should be introduce through a mech to get used to each other... but finally they adapted! How you won't have to do it regularly! 🤪😅💖🙏
I love your channel and seeing this girl run to you for help and support was breath taking. Thank you for sharing and best wishes Jason from Melbourne Australia.
What a wonderful mamma birdie...u are a lovely and wholesome person...May God bless you all ..all the time...such a sweet video
Chickens are very good at laying eggs indoors.
There have been examples of for instance lionesses developing manes and other species having the same, goes to show that nature does what it wants, and that our way of determining what is what, can sometimes be inconvenient and unnecessary haha
You knew just what to do for her and those chicks! So adorable... she just wanted to be a mom, and you made it possible!
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My dad had a solitary hen that would crow. She went broody and he felt sorry for her and bought two chicks for her to tend. She stood up and looked under her body after he stuck the chicks under her and looked at my dad in confusion. She was a very good mom to the babies though.
I love how she would come to you for safety.
That chicken thought it was a boy... met a boy, thought it was a girl, then it wanted to become a mom with all it's heart. 😅
Very cute ending, but that poor chickens trial by gender identity. 😢 was so sad. 😢
Ive had a hen be broody for months even with almost daily egg removal. Those extra broody ladies make good mommies!❤❤️ gotta let that couple be together for a little bit for eggs to become fertilized by the rooster.
She's so beautiful ❤❤❤
It's not common, but sometimes hens partway through life become infertile roosters. One day they will just start crowing and then they grow larger comb & waddles, as well as adopting a typically male feather pattern including saddle & longer tail feathers. Animals are fascinating ! I love chickens & chicken keeping 🥰😍😘
How beautiful they are. Excellent job Albert. Caring deeply for all gifts!!!❤❤
Chicken math, you sit on two eggs you will get five babies. What a great mom. She doesn't need to crow anymore
*** and the "DAD!! Look what I did!! You’re a grandpa now!" face when he came back to check on her stole my heart!!🥹🥰❤️
for sure, an attention-grabbing headline! You got me! I love, love, love your videos. that sweet chicken! such a sweet pudding! Sweet sweet story. How the little ones are all different colours! it is a never-ending source of joy in creation
This made me so happy thank you for posting it! Glad to see you’re still sharing charming stories after all these years x
The prettiest hen possible
I am such a sucker for these videos, I can't get through a single one without sobbing by the end!🤧🤟💞
Not a rooster, just a noisy hen!! LOL! And you helped her become a good mom, wonderful ;-)
I've heard of hens turning into roosters when there's damage to their ovaries or something similar. I wonder if this hen had just enough to maybe effect her fertility and cause some rooster behaviors, but not enough to fully transition.
Thank you for the lovely video! It was nice getting to see this hen become a happy mama to those chicks.
She’s beautiful🥺❤️
It keeps blocking my ability to leave this comment: 1. her first eggs were not fertilized because you didn't have a rooster yet; 2. you need to crack open her daily egg to see if it's been fertilized before allowing her to brood on an entire clutch of eggs; 3. once you see an egg of hers is fertile, collect her eggs for 6+ days but give her decoy eggs; 4. put all fertile eggs under her on the same day so that they all hatch the within 48 hours 21 days later (and remove the decoy eggs). Candle them on day 7 and 14 to look for development.
I just love chickens. They are so darn cute and sound so sweet. I miss having chickens.❤❤❤
Qué preciosidad ❤❤❤