🐣When Mama Hen ATTACKS Her Babies! 

Hope everyone that was in the path of Ian is fine. I'm in Orlando, FL and I'm still without power but this is why we prep. But sadly our complex is still flooded and every single car is flooded. Definitely wasn't prepared to loose my car 😭.

Those cats have beautiful colors and such pretty faces!!💟

When my grandma raised (or had) chickens--she never paid any attention to raising chicks. The hens did that. Whatever happened, happened. But there were many chicks wandering in her yard, anyway.

I guess I've finally learned the true meaning of being hen-pecked to death. So many lessons in nature.

It’s interesting because people think (including me…or used to think…)that animals have those mothering instincts, and it’s always the same wonderful thing…butterflies and roses..but really in nature it’s not so picture perfect. Thank you for these videos!! 💗💗💗

We had an experience a few years ago with my kids little black bantam. I went out to take care of them one morning and found her sitting on 10 eggs, none of which were hers. When the eggs started hatching she wanted no part of them. So I'm out in bitter cold weather the first of February picking up baby chickens off the floor of the coop. I got in with five of them and got them all warmed up. My son-in-law went out and brought the other five eggs in but I think only one made it and it had spraddle leg. I raised those five baby chickens that made it in their half bath in a Rubbermaid container.

Ive had winds up to 50 mph for two days here in SE georgia and it was cool here. Wore me out! Prayers for Fl and SC 🙏🙏❤️❤️

I had mistakenly let a clutch of cockatiel eggs go to long before boiling to allow momma to get brooding out of her system. I heard a tiny peeping, we had a hatch, out of 8 eggs only that first made it. The momma gave up a few weeks into caring for the chick but dad kept trying to keep it fed and warm, then momma started attacking the chicks legs, thankfully the bird store we got parents at took the chick and hand raised it for us. He made it and he's a great bird.

Molting time! They always look so pitiful! Everyone looks so good and happy! God bless.

Ouch, those pin feathers 🪶 coming in look painful. I can't touch any of my birds when they're like that. 😬

Blessings from very wet, wind blown, Coast of South Carolina 🙏& ♥

Thank you most people do not understand the life cycle because it isn't explained at Walmart. Cute chicks.

Soooo glad yall are ok! I feel so horrible for all those in the path of the hurricane, and had damage.

Glory be to God that our area of Inverness Fl was spared. But my former home town, Englewood was torn to pieces. So sad. Glad I was so prepped up! Please pray for Florida!

We started homesteading this year and one of our hens went broody. We couldn't convince her to stop so we got a half dozen fertilized eggs off a neighbor. We thought maybe she would Hatch a couple but she hatched every last one!

I have 6 golden comets. They started laying at end of June. They lay large brown eggs and occasional double yolk eggs. Even got 1 egg inside of another egg(rare). They are very quiet chickens so are great if you have close neighbors. They don't go broody but I don't have a rooster cause I live in a small town. Since they are sex-link chickens getting only females is easy. They are calm and very tame. Love my chickens 🐔

I feel you on the unplanned brooder in the bathroom 😅

Thank you for this! We have 6 eggs in our incubator. Last night we got some of the winds and rain from hurricane Ian up here in the blue ridge mountains of VA when the power went out. The power is back, and the incubator is in the house. We are hopeful that they or some will hatch. Be safe out there everyone!

When I incubate eggs it usually takes 3 days from first and last hatch. Love your kittens.

Great job. I have a small farm an garden. Chickens. A few weeks ago I was gifted 8 turkeys.

Thank you for this video Ms Patara. We just bought our property and are now looking at all the possibilities. Garden and chickens are priorities. I truly appreciate all your videos. I have been quietly following for a few years now. I have gone back and watched close to all of your videos. Its because of your honesty that you are my go to chicken lady when I need to learn!

Things can change rapidly, be prepared for all possible circumstances.

I'm so glad you shared this story. Still contemplating getting chickens! ❤️

Poor Claire Betty. I understand being old! 👵🏻😉

I hear you! My fav comet is recovering from a vent infection and at night my shower stall is a "medi-suite" that I bring her into after having a mocked up playpen next to the girls during the day until Ian's remnants arrived yesterday; so it's 24/7 now until tomorrow when she rejoins the flock. She's been an ideal patient though.

My Grandma told me when she was a young girl, one of their chickens laid a bunch of eggs. So long story short all the eggs hatched and all chicks grew up to be all roosters!

Daughter and her family was at her inlaws house in Ft Myers. Finally talked to her yesterday - They had to go to a neighbor with a 3 story house to get out of the storm surge. They are at her brother in laws house now and are in clean up mode. It's a mess down there. Right now I am canning got dogs and putting up canning salt. Lol

I just got a rooster yesterday so that I can have baby chicks! This video is full of great info! TY Patera!

It's Interesting I have been in dogs & horses since I was a little kid my family has raised and shown dogs for over 40 years. We would have a litter (sometimes two litters) a year. I have had experience with maybe 50-ish litters or births with dogs over the years. Some were large litters some were small (like singleton pups). What I find interesting is that no "litter" and mama are the same. And with all of this experience and knowledge, I learn something new with each experience. One thing has always stood out as a fact of life with a newborn puppies and the dam. When a puppy has something truly wrong with it, the bitch always rejects the puppy. No matter how many times you find the puppy pushed away from the other puppies, and the heat source being the mom or the heating pad under the whelping box, you spend all of this extra time putting that puppy back on the mom's tit or with the other puppies... If you leave and come back to the room the puppy has been pushed away by the mother again. We always put tons of time and effort into saving these rejected puppies. And not once has one of these pups made it into middle puppyhood. Most of the time they die only days or at a few weeks of age. Occasionally they will make it past 7 or 8 weeks only to die or to be put to sleep by the vet at about 12 weeks or so. What holds true with all of these puppies is that the dam/bitch knew she had the instinct to reject the puppy. She even "fights" you about taking care of the puppy. You turn your back and she has pushed the puppy away -again- It is amazing and sad at the same time. The mama dog knows and rejects, and they have always been correct in the "knowing" But we humans work so hard to keep life going. We have this hope that the mama was wrong and that we can fix it.

Hey PATARA, when we have a peep trying to get out of shell, I wet my finger and keep that membrane damp. We just use a lamp and keep a damp cloth covering it. If the membrane dries they can't get out. We have even used a tweezers to pull just a bit of shell off. Our chickens have even hatched out duck babies!

Love the babies! My 4 year-old granddaughter and I just put 6 pullets in the brooder yesterday. She has them named, of course.

back up is an absolutely necessary, when a hen goes broody. just found my hen in the weeds with 14 eggs! moved her in the coop, and even though she was trying she couldn't cover all of them. so we moved half the clutch in the incubator. bless you for sharing.

Thanks for the chicken info. There's so much to learn being a chicken mama only 2 yrs. now.

I have a cat identical to your cat in the intro, his name is Jethro, he's a ranch cat.❤️

I learn something new from you every day Patara!! You are a blessing!!

You both did your best! Keep calm and move on!

I'm sorry about the poor little one that died. I'm glad the other one is doing okay. Yes, these things do sometimes happen. I have pigeons, and have seen these things happen, unfortunately. Not usually, but things sometimes don't go as we expect. That was a good idea about getting more babies. Your a good animal Mama. Pretty smart and intuitive. You learn.

Thank you

I'm in FLORIDA but Ian was south of us. We are fine, got some rain and a little wind. A lot of my friends south of us have been hit HARD.

Wonderful chicken lesson today !! Thanks

Prayers everyone ,,thank you !

We were very fortunate at our house in coastal sc. Many friends and family lost a lot though. Prayers for all who are going through the cleanup.

you are a wonderful person!!!!

My turkeys are molting too! Ugh they look so sickly don’t they? I almost hate looking at them 😂

My wifey had a murderess hen too...solution: That hen did much better inside the 'stew pot!"

You are so like me, making sure critters are safe. 😄

Yup we had a "henicidal" girl ... she hatched 3 clutches ... the first 2 clutches were about 2 weeks when she lost it & was done with them. Had to remove the 3rd at 1 week before her flip switched. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Tnx for the update, Sweetheart!

I'm in Northern Michigan now, but born and raised in Albuquerque and then Colorado. I've only recently become captivated by turquoise (a very southwestern gym) and I must say your influence is part of the reasoning! Your jewelry is beautiful!

Thank you for sharing this. Not something I have ever experienced. Thanks again!!

Hi Patara. Thanks for sharing you situation about Mama hen and her eggs/chicks. Nature will take its course and the strong will survive. You're a great Mama to your family and animals. Be well and safe. 🥰

Thank you for your words of experience,it is good to learn these things. I don't have Chickens or Turkeys at this time. All I knew about that was if Chickens are I'll or bloody others might attack and kill the hurt one.☹️🐓🐔🐣🐤🐥

I'm glad you brought this important information to light, thank you!

Very interesting, indeed ❤ Thank you for helping Momma hen ❤ Love to y’all from Loveland, Colorado ❤️

❤ “if I know there is life in there….. love it! Agreed!

We have chickens, rabbits, and have wondered at times when mamas act weird if it's not because of too much inner breading..🤔 Love your videos! Thanks, Patara!!

Thanks for sharing this. I'm hoping next year I can have babies hatched by my hens instead of buying them. I went to close up the coop tonight and on my barred rock's fell off her roosting bar and caught her beak on a nail and it went straight through. We got her pulled off. The beak is still intact but some is broken. I'm hoping it heals. This reminds me of rabbits. One of my rabbits had a litter back in June. She ended up eating them over a few days time. Very hard to explain to a 7 and 8 year old.

Thank you for sharing this information. 😊

Homesteading is not for the weak stomachs and raw nerves.

Thank you for this video. I just moved to Texas to care for my mom and I have taken over the caring for what chickens we have left. Just lost a hen today so any info is good. 😊

Thank you for all of these clips of farm life!

Important lesson... you taught it very well... Thanks Patara 🤗❤️

I had a hen with wry tail and she insisted on brooding. I broke her up several times and a couple weeks later she's back on the nest. I was just about to go to TS and get her some chicks, but I went out to fill the feeders and give fresh water before I left. I checked on the coop and she had her head tucked under her wing and was dead. I have mentally kicked myself so much for letting her brood herself to death. She was adamant she wanted to be a momma, but I didn't need more chickens. She was one of my sweetest most docile hens and I wouldn't have ever wanted to lose her 🤢 I will never let a hen do that again, if I can't get chicks I'll get her some fertile eggs.

So informative. My Grandma had chickens. A friend has chickens.

One time I had 2 broodies hatch at the same time in the same maternity cage, and one started killing the other one's chicks. 30 years ago; never seen that again.

Blessings from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 🙏

Thanks for the information!! 🙏✌️

I had a young momma keep stepping on her babies. Had to separate. 🤷‍♀️ There was plenty of room

I learned so much through this video.

Hi cutie.. And hubby too..

Love the barn kitties. I just want to pet them so badly!

I grew up on a homestead (I was 11 in this story) and once I found a mama hen peck the bottom of the chick so much she was eating its inside while it was alive. 😱 My father removed the other chicks. This never happened before or after.

love you mama care for your animals so special

Poor little mites, just when you think you have covered everything relating to poultry, something else crops up to test you! Well saved! And oh, poor little porcupine turkey! LOL!

Such helpful information on mama chickens. I thinking of bringing in a foreign rooster this coming later spring. Have you found the hens to be accepting of new comer roosters? These hens have not been around a rooster ever. The hens are 7-9 mos. old and laying. So enjoy your videos. thank you .

may they rest in peace and find good lives in the next.

Good evening

It's nice to talk about thing's other than this crazy world...thank's for sharing about the chicken's. ..will the beak grow back ?

Thank you beautiful.

Sometimes chicken soup is the best cure for these situations 😋

Oh my odd! But Mother Nature takes it’s course!

Thank you so much for your videos.

understand the headache with "mean Mamas". It does happen. Deal with it often

We have helled a lot bays !!! LoL !!❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great information...thank you! ❤️

I'll never be able to have chickens but that was very interesting. Your kitties are getting so big. Love them. 😻 🙏🙏✝️

Evening y’all

Hey y’all from Valdosta, Georgia

Yes Mam! we have seen this first hand the hard way. Our broody hen was laying on 8 eggs. 2 hatched. She was happy, however when the others began hatching, she killed them. They were hatching 2 days after her first babies. She is a WONDERFUL momma. Her babies sleep inside her feathers. Sweet momma.

Thank you ma’am.

Hello from NC

I'm always on tenterhooks when we slip chicks under a broody. I usually put them under about 3am and sit outside listening til everyone wakes up. We have been lucky with a GREAT broody mamma, a Jersey Giant named Puma. Sweet shy girl she's a treasure. Farm life isn't always rainbows thats for sure. Its fascinating, all the things they do. They evolved these behaviors over so long. Chicken brains! An enigma sometimes

Yeah had some of that happen when I was a kid with Grandparents farm same with animals sometimes also!!!

Patera we just got some rain and some wind gusts here in h’ville, no but sone said they got pretty bad rain some flooding in Charlotte nc

South East Florida is beautiful this evening

Good evening ☺️

I have a killer hen she goes broody after another hen does. Problem is she will start to peck eggs that are ready to hatch and attack any chicks hatched. We separate the broody momma. And this year we incubated because it was total chaos in the hen house they were stealing eggs and sitting in them our killer hen decided she would sit on eggs and started taking out any chick hatched . This now have 12 healthy chicks from incubation.

My chickens are molting. Boy do they look rough. I hope they get feathers back in before it gets really cold.

We've had more problems with our bantams attacking their chicks than any other of our chickens. Last summer 4 of our bantie hens hatched out 4 clutches and all ended up dead. We figured out which hen it was who was killing all of the chicks and locked her out on the next go around. The other hens took the chicks in and raised them without problem.

I have a leghorn thats under a year old. She lays everyday a big beautiful egg. But its always a double yolk. Everyday. Is that ok? Or normal?