Building My Chicken A Prison 

It's more like those women that go into hospitals and steal someone else's baby. So, mother-ish.

More like going to jail for being an obsessive mother.

I had 2 girls whod go broody for weeks at a time, one went for 3 months. Instead of jail I'd just go out twice before school and kinda "tickle"/gently pet or rough them up til they ate, then once again right after school, and again before bed. It was hilarious because I'd be ruffling them and they'd just lay like making funny noises for a bit. I have 2 in their own permanent jails for OBSESSIVE feather picking, I've tried everything to break it but they won't stop. My two old girls (8 and 9 years) also can't be integrated because the 8 year old orpington start fights with all but her 8 year old spotted Sussex friend, and just yesterday she took a 4 1/2 foot vertical leap on the fence to Tru and go start something

​@@dflaming1371 wow i also have a spotted Sussex. Also, why do they get her pick, my aunt has Chickens that do that and when she let me choose a hen to take, they were all almost completely featherless, but now my hen has regrown her feathers but i still don't know why they did that. I'm currently struggling because this is the time of the year when my hen normally goes broody, so i leave her eggs so she can incubate when ready, but there is this creature that goes in and keeps stealing the eggs, i noticed this last week, there were two eggs there and when i checked, they were gone, and there were no traces of the eggs, but i did find a bit of dry yolk the other day in a corner, and about 5 days ago, there was another egg and it also went missing, but this time there was a bit of the eggshell on the fence which my chickens don't reach, i have no idea on what the creatures is, all i know is that it eats eggs, doesn't attack my chickens since they don't have any cuts or scratches, and it has hands that can grab and carry, i think it might be a raccoon, but wouldn't that of attacked my chickens?

@@dflaming1371 thanks, and the reason the chickens where featherless was because they themselves pulled them out, im not really sure if the hen herself ate the eggs before because i found an eggshell on the fence which is high and she can't fly that high, also there was nothing for her to climb on that side of the coop

Kinda like being overqualified for a job

​​@@capperbunshe truly over qualified gets hired to train and then the trainees get promoted right in your face. Suddenly, you see what management/the company did...you ask questions (either more money or why your trainee is now over you) and you're in the unemployment line. I remember warning my daughter. She didn't listen. "It" all happened to her. By choice, She hasn't worked SINCE! That's what's out here worse than it was b4. Atleast back then, enough if us still owned our homes. We've been stripped and tricked OUT of everything and even INTO marrying the enemy. Its go time~~~

​@@Yiriyah is that a whole life story?

​@@YiriyahI don't know "were we're going" but somebody said the white truck had candy 👀 - a confused random

Like Sargent Angel in Hot Fuzz.

I guess George was right when he said we are not better than chickens intact they are better than us 😂😂

more like going to jail for snatching other peoples kids lol

The thing is she can starve herself by not eating or drinking anything waiting for these eggs to hatch and I’ve seen one of his videos saying he doesn’t got any roosters to fertilize the eggs so the hen would be waiting for the eggs to hatch and won’t be eating or drinking anything basically starving herself

@@ji8698much respect for hens :-) heck that hen is a better parent than the stray cats

Awe!!! What a surprise! I've seen experiments like that where a mom is being very broody but they don't have fertilized eggs, so they place a piping duck egg under her. The mother will take great care of the baby but the two issues is ducks don't understand mother chicken calls when she's trying to show the baby that she found some yummy food for the baby and the mother hen gets really concerned/confused when the duckling keeps jumping into water because chickens don't really do that. Overall, the chicken still does a great job watching over her adopted baby, it's just a slightly confusing experience for her lol

😂

@@BellllllzI wonder how ducks would do raising chickens.

The chicken version of “DO YOU NOT HEAR YOUR MOTHER CALLING FOR YOU??” 🤣

@@DustyHoney My grandpa witnessed this firsthand as a boy, and it went fine until the mama duck led the chicks to the pond for a swim lesson😢 His youngest brother was quite traumatized.

I let my broodies have their babies. Sometimes I will catch the EEs trying to steal the glory at the end when they hear the eggs start peeping. EEs want the reward, but too lazy to put in the work lol

Yep they will mess u up if u step out of line

😂 lmao

I want yall to read this as Oxy iconic medieval man voice.

Hello U.N Owen. Were you her?

You can also dunk broody hens in water to lower their body temperature and break the cycle

Do not cage them in such a small jail. Give them another space to run

​@@exalented honestly this a great way to break the cycle, then she's allowed to come back out. I was raised on a farm and this is one of the best solutions I've seen.

​@@exalentedThey aren't running when they're broody. That's the problem. They basically shut down. Her experience in the cage is the same as it'd be out of it.

​@@exalentedshe'll be fine for a few days. It isn't like he's making it her permanent home and she has a roosting bar, food, and water, plus she's still close enough to be able to see the rest of the flock which is really important for social animals. My chickens freak out if they can't see each other. They're still in the brooder, but I put them outside during the day when it is warm. If I carry them in one by one (I only have 4), the first one will be screaming in the brooder until I bring a friend and the last one will be screaming in the coop until I take it to join the others. Because of this, I normally transport them in a plastic bin. They don't like the bin, but they also don't scream from being separated and the trip takes less than 2 mins. The coop is close to the house.

they pluck themselves to make their nest but it takes a while to get those feathers back. i had a broody hen named Ginger, but no babies or rooster so she eventually gave up but she was so skinny and half naked each time she quit. the first time, i hand fed her blueberries (they were cheap that year) to keep her weight up. i downsized and sold her to a small farming family who wanted a broody hen to help add to their flock.

So you didn’t really lose her. She was nesting her babies.

​@@loviewins775do you think it'd worsen or get better if she got to have a "litter" or chicks once?

Lmao faked her own death to raise a family💀

Oh wow❣️

so maybe not breakfast, but a feast in a few months

@@dRac_XII 0-0

@@dRac_XII or a feast of chicken nugs right now

I would want to hide my babies from hungry giants also!!

That’s actual brat behaviour 😂😂😂

To the point that its actually unhealthy and is affecting the family's finances. Been there.

​@@DuhBlaYep I remember a neighbor mom regularly had to remind the neighborhood kids they aren't thier mom and they can't sign a permission slip for them.

The italian mom "U looka tiiiin. Havea some spaghetti my love." Kisskisskiss.

Seems like she's the neighborhood mom that keeps lovingly kidnapping all the children, while the other parents just sigh and call 911 again.

This chicken has more mother instinct than some human mothers...❤

😂😂😂😂

That's hilarious. Poor burn bottom chikety 😂

Nooo not fire ants xD

Baby needs to listen to mom. You know what's best and I'm still learning to make sure I'm doing the right things for them when they start laying. I already love them and I am very excited to start getting eggs tbh. Put a fuck ton into them so it'll be nice to see the benefit

Her poor butt!! Awe 😂 good thing she’s alright, so cute !

I read "pasta capacity" and laughed then realized it didnt actually say that 😂

​@Prochnost c: lol talk about "Moms spaghetti"

@@jaec1998 palms are sweating....

I love this comemnt thread 😆

I can see why it’s unhealthy for the other chicken 😢 poor bb

If it works or not, I'm sure the site alone is enough to put a smile on your face lol. That sounds so cute

​@nunyabusiness5614 yeah it's hella difficult and dangerous trying to separate dogs that are going at each other's throats, my dad once used his hot coffee to snap them out of it, which worked pretty effectively, hot water from the sink doesn't work, but I don't feel comfortable making scalding hot water to use as I don't want burns from that to happen to them, and well I just use a technique that uses their leashes, you loop a leash around each of their heads, separate leashes respectively, and as well pull them away, put a large spoon into the mouth of the one that has a hold of the other dog if they are latched on, as that happens often, basically try and use the handle of the large spoon to pry open their mouth, you could try and make them gag to let go but that comes with the risk of puncturing their throat, and well if you can them separated, quickly put the leashes on them properly and take them both out to separate rooms or outside far enough from each other's sight, and then possibly use a hose to wash them down to check for wounds as well to rinse blood and debris away, and well it also cools them down, if you can't go outside due to weather conditions the bathroom should work. But yeah I've had to deal with at least 8 or more different dog fights between my three treeing walker coonhounds, it was almost always entirely started because of food, luckily we haven't had a fight for 2 years or so, which is nice as once I ended up accidentally getting chomped on by the eldest of the three, and luckily got bit by his molars, so I only had one puncture that was triangular in shape lol. I didn't notice till my mom pointed out I was bleeding, the old dog never realized he bit me, so I was never mad at him for it. So yeah it's safer to find alternatives than to try man handling them yourself.

We threw ice cold water on thr extremely broody ones💀💀

@@CarlytheWolf23 we had once an incident that neighbors dog got into our yard. It was a big dog and we had a very small dog (some mixed breed the size of toy). That neighbors dog was very aggressive, but neighbors were drunks and didn't much care to look after it so it broke into our yard smelling a picnick that we had there, but as soon as it saw our small dog ir went for it, took it in its mouth and we thought that this is it, it's gone as that small dog basically disappeared in the jaws of the big one and no way we could get it out without that other dog releasing him voluntary. But one of our guests was a police dog trainer and he reacted fast and grabbed that other dog by the top of the neck and by the balls and lifted him up by them. That made the dog forget the fight and spit the small dog out. Both dogs miraculously ended up without injuries, but that was the most insane way of splitting the dog fight that I have ever seen, but he had no choice as both dogs were so disproportionate in size that any second could have cost the life of the small dog.

@santaabolina7235 damn that's pretty effective, and definitely I would have not thought of that, although I am incapable of that with our dogs as one is a spayed female and the other two who are male are also neutered. I'm glad no one was hurt, I hope those drunks got fined and their dog rehomed, which yeah might be hard due to the aggressiveness described, but hey it's a process when dealing with troubled pups.

😄 Throw him in jail!

Lol. Me too

this is me with yugioh cards the shop is unfortunately very far so when I'm at home I'm just fine I don't even think about it ... but anytime I out and I happen to walk past the street where the shop is at suddenly I get the urge to do a quick stop and buy a few packs before going about what I was doing... I swear that street is cursed everytime I get too close ot just drags me in towards the card shop .. okay I was making that sound a bit extra for the funnies, I have some control since I don't like spending much and I'm responsible with money but still ... few packs can't hurt😅

​@@CrimsonAkato brother came to confess

​@@CrimsonAkato My house is full of empty golden tins.

My dad puts them in a bucket of cold water because when chickens are broody they also have a fever. If you cool them off they will stop sitting on the eggs and go back to eating and drinking. It might take a few cold water sessions but it works.

A Rhode Island of our pet backyard flock would get aggressively broody and wanted to lay her eggs on the strings of my dads grandpiano.

​@@hudsonstraight8628 She heard that classical music is good for babies and came to the wrong conclusion 🐔

@@hudsonstraight8628oh that's weird. I've got a bantam that likes to lay on my metal detector. Haha

Baptizing the chickens in cold water. Got it!

Agreed, I've got six and they're lovely. Had a lavender orpington rooster who was an excellent gentleman guard bird, he lived a long time and was a total sweetie.

Guess I need a few of these! I have 5 hens that go broody not just once but several times each year.

I’ve had 10 of these and they’re incredible

I like Delaware pulled hens in the place of roosters, she did great

I also have 1 orpington who went batshot and started feather pulling on her sisters, bullying and fighting, but I gave her a large, permanent cell and now she's better. She used to be very shy and timid

If I had a lot more space I would for sure let her hatch some babies, she would be a fantastic mother!

Peeps? as in the candy? What flavor?

Aw so wholesome 😊

You replaced her eggs...with....marshmallows...?

@@3disasterpiece031 Probably a different hen’s eggs

@@Pauavi baby chick's I thought

Yep he could put the cage he used up on bricks or logs to achieve this. Mine will make a new nest on the ground using feathers and grass otherwise

So cute

I have a duck named cuddles! Her sisters name is puddles lol

What happens to the male chicks?

@@DeliMeatTree some places allow them to live as long as they don’t become aggressive, most of the time their killed and thrown out or eaten, sometimes sold

We have a duck named puddles, too! Puddles, Little Ma'am, and their impotent drake, Splash ​@@LeeannG

Its is bittersweet but luckily she bounced out of it after only 2 days in jail 👐

​@@jacquesinthegarden life for chicken ex-cons are looking up it seems!

Especially since the Brood… er Buff Orpingtons are already such puff balls. It’s like an infinite ball of fluff. 😂

It works for me also.

​@@unclefester6501 what, you stop sitting on eggs after being put in cold water? 😂

@@gkalenaki yes, freezing my butt off.

They have baby fever

My aunt recently gifted me a hen of hers, I’m not used to I’d say “farm like” animals so this helps a ton!! Thank you sm,

He's not ready to add to his flock yet. I saw this and the follow up video on tiktok yesterday.

@@Lunishta I assumed that was the case but mentioned it cuz the video reminded me of an experience I had while visiting my uncle's ranch as a teen. I figured I'd share it to give others ideas that worked for his chickens and see if anyone else knew if anyone else had any similar experience since I'm starting to learn more about raising egg chickens before driving into it myself... but thank you for the clarification! 😊

@@aletheiamcwain7922 ???

@@naynerboppers5254 Oh my gosh, that is so funny. My daughter (5yr old) and I were watching this this morning, I got distracted, I'm guessing she decided to leave a comment.

Probably satisfies their drive to successfully reproduce. Once they have chicks they dont need to try anymore. So letting them have 1 clutch and get it out of their system so to speak will end with a well rounded chicken. She can happily settle into being a crone so to speak since shes gone through the maiden and mother stage. Females of all species havebt finished developing physically and mentally reached their final form if you will until theyve gone through the mother stage. So just let your animals level up naturally and when theyre done you can then decide what you want or need from them. Its like taking a cake outta the oven mid bake and expecting it to be the same as a fully baked cooled iced etc cake.

My family needs one of those boxes.. for us. Lmao. The men and women

How do you let her have chicks without a rooster? Can you buy fertilized eggs and place them under her and take all the other eggs that will never become chicks?

​@@maryjohnstone1051you can buy fertilized eggs or just leave the unfertilized eggs under her for a few weeks, buy some day old chicks, and carefully swap them out that night while she's sleeping. She'll wake up assuming that all her babies hatched in the night and carry on with motherhood

Right? I was scrolling through the comments to find this one

Wasn't it!?!?

@@NinjaBearChocobo me too

I can't imagine being so impressed with such a simple thing.

@@fromulus It's not as easy as it seems!

I agree.

That was my thought also!

Yeah my chicken what was named božena did this shit all the time so we soaked her with water worked but about week after that she escaped from cage and was shot by hunter at least she tasted good

Did you not listen to the part where she neglects herself while brooding??

But you really have to keep watch of that hen every day, because they won't eat or drink as often and they could suffer from dehydration and malnutrition pretty quickly. I had a hen like this, at first we just let her have her chicks, but then her health deteriorated so badly she was all skin and bones, so we had to put her "in jail", she recovered but when we released her again she wanted to brood right away.... So instead, I started handfeeding and giving water 4 times a day until her chicks were born, I was on vacation so I was able to do that, but it was really hard having to do that, so we decided to keep her separated from the other chickens, she had no eggs to hatch so she stopped getting broody so often. Forgot to mention: I had to handfeed and give water often because it was summer. Summers here are pretty brutal sometimes, that year we had temps of 95°F and over, we once reached 106°F, so it was really hard for our chickens and specially our brooders (odd that 3 hens started brooding in the same week, that's also why it was hard for me 😅)

as a compromise I know other people who have a broody hen cage raised off the ground in a relatively breezy area so the hen gets cooled down a little and also can't brood eggs.

Ours would step away from their eggs once in a while to drink, eat food and grass then leave a couple of massive stink bombs before they went back to their eggs

They do not starve themselves. They leave the best for a bit to drink and eat? I doubt they stand there and watch their chicken all day and night so they think because they don’t see them leave they are starving themselves

​@@dianeespinoza8647 I agree, I've heard and read several places not to worry about a broody hen starving to death or dehydrating because they will eat and drink enough to survive. Mine would always get off their clutch of eggs at least once a day to eat and drink. I've literally never heard of a broody hen starving herself to death until today, and I've had chickens for 8 yrs.

​@@dianeespinoza8647some people have cameras and even if they dont you can tell if a chicken has eaten or not her food and water would be gone. Scientists have also studied animals like this because of the "odd" deaths. Chickens have actually starved to death sitting on eggs that will never hatch. Its very sad.

​@@insertwittyprofilenameherenot all of them will. Some do and its sad. We've had both happen. Been around and working with chickens for over 20 years on the family farms.

Came here to say that! Awesome loop!!👍🏻

Constant egg laying damages hens' bodies due to selective breeding causing them to overproduce. Poor girl just wants some babies but this dude further imprisoned her for his selfish gain rather than let a sentient being procreate.

All of my chickens would stop what they were doing and just stare at me when I would sing to them. Like i put them under a spell. They loved it. When I would stop singing, they would go about their chicken duties.

​@@ladywolfwolf animals are so precious, that's so cute

Not rap. My bees hate rap. Not into opera either. Try country

*Chirp's

That's what my dad does. He puts them in a bucket of cold water because when chickens are broody they also have a fever. If you cool them off they will stop sitting on the eggs and go back to eating and drinking. It might take a few cold water sessions but it works.

Its not that She focuses in the eggs of others so much it can affect her health!

most likely arent even fertilized eggs

That happend at my place, too. The Dominate mother cat took all the ohter kittens away from thei rmamas and nursed all of them. And then “Held Court” We housed her in a re-purposed crab pot, with woven mesh sides ,top and bottom, with hay and a blanket. and set it up above the ground with a ramp to the entrance.. We could watch the proceedings 24/7. The little mama cats would all wait respectfully around the ramp, waiting their turn to come in and feed and wash their babies..

Had 2 cats give birth only a day apart. They just lumped all the kittens together and co-parented the lot!

She was THE queen and wasn't about to let the others say different.

@@NidotheKing same :’) 2 cats that got pregnant at the same time and had their babies in close proximity to each other. they just kinda lumped all the babies together and we couldn’t tell whose was whose anymore. it wasn’t abnormal to see one mother nursing 8 kittens even though she’d only had a litter of 6 :p