Some advice; 1. Get them friends!!! Even if they are indoor chickens they still need chicken friends and are extremely extremely social. They really can’t be happy alone 2. Make sure to get proper chick growing food as they are growing and change to the appropriate type of food as adults. It’s great to give them other foods and have them forage, but having a base food they can come back to assures your chicken is much less likely to get nutritional deficiencies. You can also offer grit. 3. When your chicken is older, look into ivermectin to deworm. You’d be surprised just how much of a gut load they can carry 4. Do NOT EVER leave the baby accessible to cats in particular, especially because they are alone. Personally I don’t even let my cat come into the room when I had young chicks. 5. Somewhat Yes, some breeds can become quite airborne when they want, especially lighter ones And as some tips: 1. Don’t be afraid to do research. If you are unsure about something, look it up, or if you think you know something, look it up anyways. It’s better safe than sorry 2. Chickens love eating practically everything!! Kale, chicken, fish, maggots, mice, apple, seed mix, don’t be afraid to give them variety. Just check whatever you feed them 3. You will fall in love with them if you spend enough time with them. That simple. Doesn’t matter if it’s a skittish chicken who slowly starts to become friends with you, or a chicken who you can pick up and cuddle under your shirt for an hour, you love each one
To y'all wondering if having chicken as a pet is good well its good except their poop cause its not solid (most of the time) and they smell real bad also they shit alot
@@zeroshikagure7997 not always:) certain foods make their poos less solid so if you can figure out what foods do that poos can be really easy to clean up. Bout as difficult as a large parrot poo. They do have a certain chicken smell though. The main thing is just keeping them emotionally happy with friends, clean, and having plenty of toys and places to forage so they have constant mental enrichment. I would think a small chicken flock would be a bit harder than an indoor pigeon but easier than a demanding parrot
I've raised chickens for years, and interestingly enough, crafting a hen head doll isn't necessary to teach them to eat and drink. Tapping food and water with your finger tip is enough to cause them to get curious and try it for themselves. But it's very cute for the video ☺️
Adding the black background for the first meal, and supplementing their chick feed and foraging, are some tips I am taking to my current chicks going out for the first time today, and my hatch tomorrow. The power went out in late incubation, so these babies will need a lot of help.
I remember in junior year of HS we were paired up to raise chicks from eggs. It was honestly really fun and sweet. The chicks were so fun to watch and learn about, it was incredible to see them grow over the semester. At the end, we took a class trip to take them to their new home, which was a farm animal sanctuary owned by one of our English teachers parents. It was very sweet, and we knew they would live a good life with lots of love and care :)
can't like this enough, chickens HAVE to live in a group to have a healthy normal lifestyle. As someone who raises chickens there are several things in this video that concern me, I hope there is plenty of research done off camera
Just for the people wondering if it’s cannibalism: It depends. The embryo is neither the yellow yolk nor the egg white, it’s a small plate floating on the yolk in fertilised eggs. This is also where vascularisation will spread from to siphon nutrients from the yolk and white. So if you’d classify breastfeeding a form of cannibalism, this is somewhat similar.
@@albinjt1 If the cell was as big as the yolk is, then the egg yolk would have to be about 200 times as large! Instead of the egg being about 4 centimeters wide, it’d be *8 METERS WIDE!!* Imagine a chicken’s egg taller than an average house!! Next, imagine a chicken *MORE THAN 10 TIMES THE HEIGHT OF THE TALLEST DINOSAUR EVER, THE SAUROPOSEIDON (13 meters vs the chicken’s 140 METERS)!!!* In fact, this chicken would be ALMOST AS TALL as Godzilla’s 2014 rendition (120-150 meters)!!
The only “deficit” of the process is the lack of interaction with the mother while still in the glas…ehm… “egg”. Except for fish and reptiles, any other animal needs stimuli from the mother: first of all they need to hear her heartbeat… but they also need to hear her “voice” and her movements. One of the things that hospitals provide to children born from dead mothers (it’s rare, but it happened!), is a fake heartbeat sound and a “radio” that simulates voices, music and sounds. Some puppies born from mothers who died after giving birth , developed anxiety, aggressivity and cognitive problems. They found out that giving them a warm blanket and making them hear the sound of a heartbeat, calmed them down. Next time, you should try to give to the fetus more stimuli and see if there’s any difference when he grows up!
Exactly, you can’t play god and expect the animal to be able to survive long without being helped the entire way. And let’s not forget that there’s also birth defects as well only time can tell.
Exactly this! We adopted a young pup whose mom died early. We bought them a special toy plushie which gave of heat and a heartbeat. She constantly slept against it and it was heartwarming to see how comforting the toy was for her. Every animal needs this in order to live. I'm not surpised to little embryo's survived.
The name Rambo is actually pretty fitting. The last of an elite group. Honestly, this is pretty awesome and I can't believe you guys managed to pull this off!
Hello i live on a farm and we have alot of chickens and hatch some every year so um heres some tips - Definitely get a friend for the chick. Chickens are very social and unless you spend time with them every hour of everyday they will need a friend - Babies actually already know how to eat and eat and drink when ready as they dont do it right away. I know its too late for that but just for the future - also wanna leave the babies in the incubator for atleast 24 hours or until they are dry and fluffy - Get some starter crumble for them. It has all the nutrients they need - also while talking about boxes you are gonna wanna get a tall box with a mesh lid on it (Or wire whatever works best) It seems rambo imprinted on you so that's why they followed you everywhere
All good info, momma hen will sit on her eggs a few days as they don’t all hatch at once so the chicks are fine for a little bit without eating and drinking, but don’t forget the grit once they start eating anything but chick starter.
@@bee2472 great mindset. Same here, it’s been a few years of chicken farming but I say it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been on this earth we are all still learning 👍❤️
Almost, research shows chicks actually don't know how to drink when hatched. That's why when getting chicks from a hatchery they tell you to dip their beaks in water when setting them up in the brooder. They can pick it up from observation as well, but dipping their beaks in water is a good way to trigger their thirst and drinking instincts and then any who didn't get the picture will pick it up from observing
For those wondering. Chickens will actually eat their eggs. In fact I've heard it's good to crush up the eggs & give it back to them as a source of more calcium. Just ensure you crush it up so it doesn't look like eggs anymore. Otherwise you might get a rogue chicken eating her eggs.
Chicken owner here; you are absolutely correct. We save the eggshells from the kitchen and crunch them up to put back in the run to recycle the calcium. Reality is often harsh; mother hens will also eat weak chicks, and when a chicken dies of old age the rest will often consume most of the body despite the availability of food and a free range life. They are omnivores and other than a few things like onions they will eat pretty much whatever humans eat, including chicken. If our leftovers get too old we just pitch them outside and the chickens love it.
@@dougmapper3306 I'm not sure if mother hens eating weak chicks or chickens eating other dead chickens is normal after all. My family has been keeping free range chickens almost my whole life and we've never had anything like that happen.
It's interesting that he needed the added contrast to see the food. How is his eyesight? Was the incubator constantly lighted? Did it mimic a day/night cycle? Even if it did, how intense was the light compared to what it would be like if he had been inside the shell? I wonder how this might have affected the devevlopment of his eyes.
What happens when chicks just come out of the egg, the yoke is still inside them and they eat that and for about a day they won’t eat it. The next couple days they will start eating. That chick will be happy and strong 💪. Plus the gender of the chick you will be able to tell in the next couple of weeks because the Comb will get bigger that’s how I tell and it looks like Rambo is a female so hope you get eggs!!! Hope this helps 🙂
like with cats? I think that only applies if it continues into adulthood, loads of wild animals have stripes when they're younger that disappear when they age. baby deer, tapirs, ducks etc. Something to do with camoflauge maybe?
@@AngDavies It is true that some animals have stipes and dots for camouflage.But in this case it is sexual dimorphism like calico cats (black /white/orange)which are always female and ginger cats which are always male.I've had chickens for years and this type of chicks always turned out to be female.
@@rarescostinnn7 Whle it's true calico cats are always female, ginger cats aren't always male, just much more likely to be due to the way cat genetics work
I'm sure he's being very careful not to step on the baby. I do get the anxiety, though. It scares me when puppies and kittens like to play directly under my feet. lol
i stand by my name...Fazzy fUzz Fazz Raptor...was way better than.....................................................stupid --rambo-- -.- :( how boring ^.- :(((
Biggest advice I can give (have chickens myself) get him atleast two friends, the same age. Chickens are flock animals, and will end up getting depressed if theyre alone. 3 is kind of the minimum. Other than that, looks fun :D!
Please please please get him a little friend. He needs some company. I've had chickens my whole life, they love being around other chickens. It breaks my heart to see this one run around all alone.
I wander how many people think it's inhumane to feed chickens chicken eggs. They flipin love the things. If I drop one of the eggs I collect on the ground it'll be gone in seconds. Edit:Just to confirm, I do not think it is inhumane to feed chickens chicken eggs.
I was in the Philippines several times in my life and I can confirm that chickens can somewhat fly, just not in the way that we see in other birds and some can sleep on tree branches
If anyone wondering, On 1st~2nd day of hatching usually there will be a chick that didn't eat at all but that's completely fine and normal, After the 3rd day, they will usually eat and run around all day
Chickens can eat a lot of table scraps, of course make sure everything is okay for them to eat but yeah! Vegetable trimmings oats, leftover rice, ask if these are good for a varied dirty! Also be sure they get enough niacin, it's good for their developing wings! But all in all, it looks like your have a healthy chick! G they are omnivores, so they eat both seeds and bugs equally, but more grain as it tends to be more plentiful. But she's adorable! Good luck!
@@JakobSins At approx. 0:45 he says he mixed egg yolk with the semolina wheat. The egg yolk came from a chicken egg and Rambo the chick is a chicken bird. Therefore, cannibalism.
during the experiment I found it fascinating, watching the chick grow up made me realize how lonely it must be, imagine being raised in just a sterile room with a 200 ft monster as your only companion... it would be so depressing...
You should make a clicking sound like tik tik tik tik that's how chickens say "there's food right here" it makes teaching the chick to eat 100x easier I use it on chicks that hatch in the incubator
You can also grow up the chicken with the help of a duck from the beginning. We had that once and it worked. If you are around it, yes it will think that you are the mother and focus on you.
@@thefluffyeasteregger yes, but his chicken won’t be a pet anymore once it nips that ladybug. I have a chicken, a salmon faverolles, who is a pet (a very rude rooster tho XD).
@@foreignbirb2579 oh ok! Cool! I used to have pet chickens too until I was forced to re home them. (Stupid HOA) I guess you could say that a dead pet is still a pet though? Idk
@@foreignbirb2579 where I am I’m hoping they will soon pass a law that keeps HOAs from dictating whether you can have backyard pets like bunnies and chickens. I’m sure that even if I had quails they would snoop and still tell me to get rid of them
chickens born with a food/water reserve that can last 3 days, and like many animals specially birds got an imprinting instinct that drawn them to the first living thing they saw (generally mummy) and yes free range chickens are better flyers than must think, and sex can be linked by is wings feathers same length ladies , uneven gentlemen, so to me rambo is a "chick"
I don’t think the prop chickens were really needed though- Chickens are extremely smart, there’s no way she ate because she saw “her mom” do it. She would’ve easily identified that the “chick” wasn’t real, not only by looks but also by sound and smell + chickens usually don’t eat for the first day.
Chickens actually make good house pets. You need to clean their bedding nearly every day of course, and dust nearby surfaces more frequently, but there are chicken diapers for indoors and leashes for securing them when you travel. They love to run around (supervised) foraging for grass and insects. They learn their name and basic commands, will come when their name is called and they love watching tv with their pet humans (no monster movies, please). It’s best to give them at least one other chicken buddy though as they are social creatures and need someone to interact with when you aren’t with them.
@@williamalford4248 A house chicken has barely any smell if kept clean, far less odor than a cat litter box, ferret, or puppy. Ever smell a wet dog? WAY WORSE, and you can always tell when someone owns a dog by the musky smell of their house. A chicken's body smells only like the food it eats (cereal grains, similar to the smell of unsweetened breakfast cereal) and the bedding it sleeps in (pine or straw). Daily picking out poo removes all source of bad odor in the cage. There are even chicken diapers you can get so they can roam the house. People keep large parrots in their homes, and those are way messier, chew woodwork and cords, and are WAY LOUDER.
Food tip: get 2 metal rods wire and high voltage AC generator(lower frequencies work better), then wire the rods to the generator and put them in the ground as deep as you can. Start the generator and watch the earth puke out dancing worms!!!
They absorb the yolk just before they hatch and the yolk is very nutritious, they can survive for about 72 hours after birth with no food because of the yolk, maybe thats the reason why he didnt want to eat or drink? He wasnt hungry?
Have to take care that they don't ingest too many of these invertebrates though. They can carry gapeworms amongst other parasites which can be fatal to your poultry.
Just go to the feed store and get chick starter, a feeder and a chicken water bottle. When he or she gets old enough, about two months old you can start feeding it real chicken feed, I recommend the medicated chicken pellets. Also cracked corn, and milo. More commonly known as chicken scratch, which is all of it mixed together. Place a full feeder in with your chicken so food is always available. Chickens can get really nasty, Your going to need an out door cage or coop with a run.
You need to get him some Medicated chick food, You also should wait to give him/her treats until eight weeks and then once giving them treats you need to give them chick grit, if you need any help with chicken stuff please let me know I have a flock of my own I also would recommend getting him a friend, chickens are flock animals and need a buddy
What a beautiful baby chick I've never been around animals that much and I'm not from the country but I do love animals and this baby chicken is beautiful they need to have friends🐤🐥💜❤🙏😊
Love it, i found on more than one occasion a homeless chick and nurture it in my home but after they got bigger it was strange to them how other wild chickens behave it can take a while for a chicken raised in a house among humans to adapt to the outdoors.
Chicks will chill for a few hours, even up to 12-24 hours after hatching before becoming more active. Before hatching chicks will absorb the yolk into their abdomen and that will feed them for the first 2 days of life. They do still need water though. A chick waterer is best instead of a small dish. After the initial two days that’s when they start wanting food- chick feed and even meal worms.
