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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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
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).
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 ♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾🐓🐔🐥🐣
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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!💖🙏🏻
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 😁🐓🐔.
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.
@@BigAssNigga311 lol it is probably some of the most unhealthy foods you can eat
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@@BigAssNigga311 "Factory farming is cruel and unnatural. " This statement is significant considering that most companies portray their raising of chickens as natural and humane, when they're really one of the worst examples of abusive and unhealthy animal husbandry. And typically, unnatural treatment harms the creature, as they aren't designed for the conditions, and that affects them biologically and psychologically in a negative way.
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)
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 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.
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).
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.
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.
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!!🍳
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.
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.
I left my RU-vid 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.
@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.
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!
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).
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.
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.
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.
***** 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!
You know, most American cities allow you to have backyard chickens...no roosters but hens are usually allowed. In some suburbia towns you can have up to 5 hens without breaking rules. The laws are changing rapidly and it's usually not all that much work to change the regulations. Some cities actually encouraging people to raise hens.
I have 5 hens myself. Barred Rocks, Gold Comets, amd a Rhode Island Red. They are docile and sweet. Follow me around my garden as I weed, looking for bugs and seeds. When I slow down they look at me like "Well, hurry up!" They love to be scratched and petted, and they give me 4-5 eggs a day + compst for the garden!. They are interesting, funny, and strange little creatures and affectionate in their own way. I recommend chickens to anyone with at least a small backyard. Plus better than factory farmed, easy to keep and give you a touch more sustainability. Whats not to like?
My neighbor reported me for having two chickens. When the cops showed up they were confused until a few phone calls revealed that I could have up to TWELVE chickens 😂 needless to say I never heard a complaint from my neighbor when threatening him with 10 more chickens
@@ObeseGramps sorry you have a neighbor like that. All of our neighbors love our ladies, especially the eggs! We’ve never asked for money but someone will usually leave a big bag of feed on the doorstep every few months. We still have no idea who is doing it but suspect all of them are in on it.
Do not rely upon the subtitles. Also, if you have chickens, you can have a few food bowls or a long trough, to help cut down on pecking order harassment at feeding time. Watch out for 'pecking order' harassment in all if your livestock and pets. It is there. It is their social order for social groupings. You just don't want any of them being denied enough food and/or being actually harmed in repeated bashings and excessive 'corrections and reminders'. Ample space helps a great deal for social groupings.
I had a rat problems in my backyard, so I kept my chickens inside. One day one got loose, and it was outside my door the next day, and I found five dead rats scattered around, and I was shocked.
Haha I've got cats and chickens but once I saw a car of mine wit a little mouse in it's mouth but one chicken saw that and started to run after the cat until the cat just dropped the mouse and the chicken started to whip the mouse to the floor and then it went in! It just devoured a whole (small) mouse!! I was shocked also... Haha funny because my cats are a little afraid of the feathered ladies 😂😏😎
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.
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.
The only animal with the capability to you mean? It's hardly noble when you don't do something that it's impossible for you to do. Am I noble for not being a dictator? Not really, I've never had the opportunity to refuse it.
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
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.
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!🐓🐓🐓
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...)
I love having a few chickens. They keep the weeds under control by eating up the weed seeds. They churn my compost and they eat up insect pests. Once, my barred rock hen stole a mouse my cat had just caught right from her and ran off with the rest of the flock chasing after. It was hilarious. The cat was bummed that she lost her catch.
Sometimes mice get stuck in my chicken food bin and I always scoop them up in a cup and release them outside. One day I released a mouse and one chicken chased it down and ate it. It was disturbing. I didn't think they eat stuff like that.😂
@@omartinoco9930 yeah I knew they ate bugs and I sometimes give them bits of hotdogs for treats but I never knew they would chase down a mammal like that
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
You could get guinea fowl. While they are not chickens, they can integrate them with chickens easily. They also act as watch dogs and will eat ticks and mites.
The chicken coop had an intruder few nights ago. There was a retic python killing the hens. Their coop has no lighting so they couldn't see at night but I guess they just felt scared. After the first night 2 hens died, the following night the other hens started roosting near the caretaker's house. The coop is about few hundred meters away. They just wana be safe. Very smart creatures to remember the danger even though they didn't see it in the dark
@@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'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.
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.
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!!
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
Fun fact: chickens have a head tracking system implemented in their brains so when their bodies move their heads don't. They have this because their vision becomes blurry when moving, this is why they make quick movements with their heads and freeze instantly. They also bob their heads back and forth when walking by moving it forward quickly and then freezing so they can see for a short moment. MOM, I DID SOMETHING USEFUL TODAY!!!!
Someone commented on another comment about “the internal chicken gyroscope” and I laughed so hard I spit coffee. But it’s true! This reminds me of a funny video called “Rotate your owl”. Worth looking up for a laugh
Don't you ever think chickens are dumb. Down in Key West, in the Florida Keys, there are thousands of chickens, who live all around the island. Some of the people dislike them, but they're nice birds, a beautiful coloring of red and black. One day I had to go down there and as I turned a corner, I saw a family (they hang around as families) crossing the street. The rooster led the group, followed by the hen and behind her a row of half grown chicks. As I approached in my car the rooster saw me and ran back and stood in the middle of the street, facing me. I, of course, stopped the car. He stood there while the chicks passed and after the last one crossed, he ran behind them. I then proceeded. I couldn't believe what I'd just seen, how like humans he had acted, going back to block traffic and let his "children" pass under his gaze. It was a long while before I could eat chicken again !
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.)
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.
Good to see chickens get some respect! I took care of around 20 chickens growing up, and knew everything that this video told us about their behavior. I didn't know what their reaction would be to a fake fox, but the fact that humans were standing there watching them, told them not to worry too much. . God really made a good one when he created chickens!
so they should have tested the fox while hiding? animal familiarity with humans is fascinating. I wonder if they think humans are just bigger chickens, or they just recognize humans as ok giants that are beneficial
Great documentary. Beautiful work this chicken sanctuary is doing. You can see it's a total labor of love. I'm so happy I gave up eating this gorgeous intelligent beings some time ago.
I once found a giant centipede that was a good 20cm long, not even my dogs would go near it, but as soon as I let the chickens out, they zoomed over and mercilessly tore it apart.
I've had an off and on relationship with chickens since I was little girl on our farm. I remember a hen who hadn't be laying and was put in a box to be sacrificed for dinner. I was told that she wasn't laying anymore and so would be eaten the next day. As if she knew it was deliver or die, sure enough under the box the next day was an egg. I remember being in tears because they were going to kill her anyhow.
Haley Newhouse yes because whats the point chickens carry diseases in their meat which can’t be killed by cooking many of its harmless but can have harmful bacteria in it to which can cause nausea
That's why I like dual-purpose heritage breeds. Not only do they seem healthier overall, with better survival instincts suitable to free ranging, but the males get big enough for the table when raised to a decent age. Nothing is wasted.
“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
Oh! When they're taken to Jane's farm and set free from their travel crates, I got all giddy & warm inside. Chickens are such marvelous creatures! If only they could all be safe, comfortable & free. 🐓🐔♥️
We used to have a pet hen some years ago. We live in the suburbs in Texas, and my mom saw this hen grazing in our front lawn. This is not a normal occurrence. We sometimes see dogs or cats walking down the sidewalks, but never a chicken. So my mom lured the hen to our backyard using pieces of lettuce. We gave her a nest, which consist of a round plastic bin and newspaper and straw. She would lay eggs everyday, and follow you around the yard. Otherwise, she would be pecking in the grass. Sometimes a vulture/hawk would fly overhead, and its shadow would loom by quickly, and the hen would immediately go zero to 60 full speed running back into the porch! She would also crow every morning when the sun rises. Unfortunately, this crowing was the cause of an anonymous neighbor's complaint and we got warned in a mail sent from the NHA to remove the hen. :( So we have to give away our hen to one of our family friends that own chickens, and I really hope that she lives a long and happy life and that they didn't eat her.
Ha! Caption read "It's my last day on the Phone' (instead of Farm). Lord help the Readers who depend on this "hearing impaired service" Having worked for a Low Vision Service, I would gladly volunteer to free- of- charge correct the interpretations. I fee that the corrections should be made by the interpreter after the "speed typing" by phonetic sound. Afterall, the interpreter has the "gift" of hearing and should thus provide a full service to the Handicapped Hearing Impaired. Thanks ❤
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.
I've owned two roosters in my life. They were one of the three best friends I have ever had. Such sweet, loyal things, but they do tend to fight at times.
Turns out that there's more to chickens than I knew. I also had no idea how intelligent they are. Not bad for a creature whose brain is about the size of an almond pit.
Marc Dumais They're finally trained to return to the coop when it gets dark. That's the essence. They were an unexpected gift. One is a cockerel, which means as he ages he'll start crowing. That might cause me (him) problems. My intention from the start was to have egg-layers and ground scratchers. I've always had sort of an ambiguous sideline project of clearing out the ground beneath my cedar hedges. I no longer need to do it. These guys do it all on their own. They're also good for weeding gardens, if the weeds are still sprouts. They'll leave the larger plants alone and just peck at the tiny stuff. I'm aiming to have four, six at most. Eggs can be pickled, or dried for winter protein. If I ever do get into breeding, it won't be for a number of years. Interesting thing about chickens: while they are delightful, they are _not_ pets. They act like semi-domisticated wild birds. Don't expect your chickens to show affection the way that dogs or cats would.
Marc Dumais _"Seeing how social and intelligent chickens are, I am beginning to understand the POV that it's cruel to keep them in tiny, individual cages."_ It is a trade off. On one hand, we have feeding millions of people, on the other hand we have treating the creatures well, and both should be kept in consideration. My uncle raises geese. People have protested against him, but when invited to see how they are actually raised (semi-free range) the activists refused. Farmers aren't cruel, heartless people exploiting animals, they are people who live with and understand live-stock, know the animal's nature and finds best mediums. They have to make a living, we need to eat, and to simply stop breeding the animals would result in a dramatic drop in their population, which, given today's environment might lead to the extinction of their species. Can you imagine chickens roaming around the streets of New York? On the other hand, there is place for compassion. I've heard tell that in Cuba, that everyone grows their own garden. I strongly believe that if our culture promoted small urban farms rather than lawns, that we'd all be better off. We'd all have fresh veggie, and various animal products, and that the animals would be well-tended to. I'm sure that it would have many impacts on the practicalities of our society because it would be dealing with fundamental (and profitable) human needs.
Marc Dumais Interestingly, the area where I live used to permit for urban poultry raising, and eventually, it was repealed. Who lobbied the city to change the regulations? Poultry farmers.
Marc Dumais I don't know. My assumption is that the are likely to follow the dominant ones, but I'd be inclined to let them habituate to the coop, first. Understand, these are my first two, ever, and I've had them for a month. Right now, most everything I know is theoretical.
Marc Dumais Consider me on chicken guard! :) I've been paying attention to chicken communication. One way that they express stress, especially the cockrel is to lower their wings. I learned that on this video, but I observed it today
0:01 "one of the most important creatures that has..." 0:03 "pain-free venue next week" 0:06 "mcafee haven't heard it hot there are nearly seven billion demons" Me: Well this turned dark quick.
