Imagine if chickens could “speak” instead of just signalling with other chickens using sounds. That’d be a really weird conversation to have with your “chicken friend”
I am always touched by seeing the gentle, thoughtful care for the tiniest new birds here. I would not have known to dampen the shell to help this chick survive. Everyone needs encouragement and to know they are not alone. You can see in that newborn chick’s eyes that his first experience outside the egg was that he felt safe and warm and cared for.
You can’t just pull them out of the egg when they’re ready to hatch, they’re attached to the skin like layer under the shell. If you open the egg you will rip off the part of them that is attached. The water dissolves the part that glues them to the egg.
@@Frank-wr2nf I decided to help a little chick out that had already made the break through. I was very careful and patient, but it killed it. It didn’t live long after coming out of the shell. It probably lived no more than a half hour. They say, you need to let them do it on their own. I’m glad this one worked out. I love seeing a man being so kind & gentle 😊
They also have a navel cord. Once shown in a ACCA film. its si fascinating. Normaly we don’t know . ACCA told us then: if hit to early, the chick bleeds to dead. He is verry careful…. 💖🙏
i saw half of this meme and then I watched this part and then I was like this has to be a meme and I thought about this mama chick doing a great job and then I scrolled down and saw ur meme😱😱
3:45 awwww the moment she cleaned the duckling's beak by plucking away that small piece of hay is amazing. Just like a mother of any kind would!!! My heart 😊
Silkies are sweet, gentle chickens, that make wonderful mothers. Thank you for giving this sweet girl the gift of motherhood. You gave her fertile eggs, she gave them life. Never think "it's only a chicken". They love their babies & are so happy to do what all mother's do; nurture new life. I so loved this 🐔🐣🐤
The second time he’s taking her unfertilized eggs to give her viable ones, she doesn’t peck him or fight at all 🥺 I think she remembers him giving her the eggs that her son hatched from
The Duck is a wood duck. I have plenty but, they are wild and nest by my pond. I have 1 broody Hen Chicken (Rhode Island Red), and 1 broody Hen Turkey. They sit on chicken eggs, goose eggs, duck eggs, turkey eggs. Any eggs. When they hatch, it could be anything in the nest. They even sit on each others nests. They dont mind at all. They are proud of their babies, even the ones that dont look like them. 😁👍🏻
@@louibeans Nah. It's a learned behavior, if they ever get access to one dropped egg and eat it, they realize how tasty they are and then will break open any egg they see.
My silkie is raising 2 little quacker ducks at the moment. The other little duckling is now 6 weeks old, raised by another little bantam hen. The two hen's mothering styles differ so much. Interesting to watch.
She didn’t seem to peck at his hand the second go around. It is if she had learned that he was there to help give her eggs to lay. Team work makes the dream work!
My brother is that deadbeat son and I swear I'm just counting the down the days until he moves.. however I doubt hell move anytime soon cos he's dependent on my mum for pretty much everything
My mother raised rare breeds of birds as a hobby for 40hrs. For many years she had a favorite silky hen that she named ‘little mama’ Who sat on and raised hundreds of birds for her- from ducks to turkeys and many rare breeds of chickens. She was an amazing and loving mother hen.
I like that the second time you gave her eggs she just begrudgingly squeaked. "For some reason they only hatch when you touch em. Please don't. Please don't touch me. But give me egg. No, stop touchie. I want them to hatch. Stop."
Before I stumbled across this video I thought chickens where just livestock, and I didn't much concern myself with them. But when I saw this I was awestruck with how caring they can be, and it set me down a rabbit hole learning all I could about them. I now have a flock of six hens, one of which is a fluffy little white silkie.
Now wait to see how cows and ewes behave with their babies :D. Or not, your garden may not be big enough :p. But wow, going from not caring to actually raising them, in six months only, is really impressive. Say hello to your birbs for me!
The big farms(i dont even wanna call them farms,more like torture houses) where chickens have to only lay eggs and cant move from cages I hate those houses,if i could i would just ban these houses I wish to have a big garden,and have chickens and/or ducks,these heings are so adorable, why do humans treat them horribly
@@sova1235 all they see is profit, yes we cant deny the fact that allot of people eat them and some need them for medical purposes but that doesnt mean that we need to make their whole lives horrible, allot of people say animals have no emotion but they do and they just cant see that and just profit, i wish that someone or something would open their eyes for once😞
HE CAN.............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HIS MAN IS ADAM IN THE TRUEST SENSE......PUTS US ALL TO SHAME!!!!! AND HASHEM AND YESHUA AND HOLY SPIRIT.............????????THEY KNOW HOW SPECIAL HE IS !!!!!!!!!!!!
It always amazes me how one little bird grows perfectly inside that much space in an egg shell. Thanks for helping that little one get out!! I'm always in awe of the work you do!
The duck is a wood duck, native to the Southern US and the chick's remind me of pheasants I've seen in Fla when I lived there. They're usually in packs. They remind me of a cross between a chicken and a turkey. Also they're pretty funny to watch! Really not sure what they are but that's the closest to what they looked like to me from what I can tell.
I had a chicken that raised some baby ducklings... Much to her horror when they jumped in the pond, as ducks do, and she half swam half flew across the pond to stay with them.
It is very heartwarming to see such a warm tender caring man taking such wonderful care of tiny little lives. I wish there were more men like you in the world.
@@dianea3324 You are correct. They are leathery. By appearance they look and feel like shell but, when they open you see they are like a leather sack. The membrane in chicken eggs more closely resembles a reptile egg but if course much thicker. Most will dry out if it's not humid enough where they are laid/buried. That is correct about reptile eggs not being able to be turned. The reason is that the majority of reptiles lay their eggs and leave. They don't stay around for hatching. I have only seen mothering type behavior in Crocodiles and Alligators. So therefore there would be no parent to stay around to continually turn the eggs. So the develop the air pocket on the top side. If they are turned after a brief period they will suffocate and die or drown depending on how humid the nest is.
That sure brought back memories! My grandma gave me my first job on the farm, gathering eggs from the henhouse. She gave me my basket and told me to gather as many as I could find. It took me awhile but when I went back to the kitchen I said "Well Grandma, it was quite a fight! But I got them! Here!" She looked at all the peck marks on my hands and arms and said "OH NO! You got my setting hens!" (come to find out, she didn't think I was tall enough to get up to those chickens on the "upper floors" of the henhouse but I did! I wanted to do a good job) I had no idea what that meant, setting hens. this was over 65 years ago, but I do remember fighting those mama chickens! Grandam was able to figure out which eggs were which and put them back, then showed me later what setting hens meant, even letting me hold the baby chickens. Well, I learned a tough life lesson, that some chicken moms really fight for their babies. Growing up on my grandparents farm was amazing, it was like stepping back in time. No running water, no electricity, everything was from the farm, milk, butter, eggs, vegetables and of course meat which was the hardest thing to learn about. So different from today, sometimes I think it might be a good lesson for kids to work on a farm for awhile, you would definitely never hear them say "I'm bored!"
@Grace Rich I have to disagree with you buddy. He is for sure wood duck male. Just google both mandarin and wood duck and compare the face and chest markings. But yes their body shape is really similar :)
Hen : !hey please don't take my eggs Man: *proceed to put eggs in a better spot* Man: *then puts hen in a better spot* Hen: understandable have a good day
Hi again, I just noticed I had commented twice, a year ago and two years ago, funny I can enjoy the same video so many times they're so heart warming, and alway's lift my spirit, thank you for sharing,❤
YES! I totally "get" this man. I have the same kinda heart for animals, having empathy and reverence for all living creatures. This man has my utter respect.
@@Cat-vp8vt They mean that , because this breed of chicken LOVES to sit on eggs and hatch out babies as soon as they can after hatching out the prior batch. I hope this helps.
One of my silkie hens, Chickarella, steals everyone's eggs in the coop then sits on them. She had 20 eggs one time! Hatched them all. She will flog you in a heartbeat if she even sees you eyeballing her babies.
i just realized that little chicks start peeping before they’re born. this is a beautiful video. duckie is still attached to his mum. sigh! beautiful. . . 🐓🐣🦆🌷🌱
I love how you can just shove a bunch of random eggs under pretty much any kind of bird and they‘ll just be like: „Huh, weird thing, but keepers finders. I‘m your mother now!“ Like it doesn‘t even matter to them if it‘s much bigger than their own.
Chickens WILL go for the biggest egg they can find. They want tall kids. Image search "chicken ostrich egg". In an experiment, a hen abandoned her own eggs to sit on an ostrich egg.
I had a silk hen, she had black feathering, but she died some months after for unknown reasons... 😢 It’s the most beautiful kind of hen I could have! 😊 I’m really happy to see yours be a mother! A message from Quebec! 😁
I had a white baney chick that wasn't even a year old when it died. I named the white baney Fluffy and I had gotten Fluffy at a Tractor Supply Co. Fluffy was the only white baney chick there. We also got 5 others because you had to have at least 6 to be able to buy them. My mom's brother got all of them except for 2. The 2 we kept was my white baney and our other one April. They liked being around eachother and running around the yard. Fluffy died because the neighbors had let their dogs roam freely without being watched. They attacked both of the chicks and when my dad went outside my dog made a run for it. My dog chased the other dogs away. He managed to save my brother's chick April. We decided to take April to my dad's parents to be with their chickens just so that April had some friends and a safe place to stay away from dogs who like to attack... April is really nice and doesn't really like dogs that much anymore...
She is a beautiful hen and I love her personality. The way she looked after that little duck with such care and interest is so sweet.. Thank you soo much for letting her be a mother. And it seems she loved being one. Hope you give her more babies to look after. Be happy, little Silkie :) 🕊️🦢🐔🦆🌷🌱
OMG did you see how she pecked his hand when he switched her eggs to the ducks eggs? Did you also notice how patient she was when he placed the chick eggs? It was almost like she was saying with her eyes "thank you for helping me to accomplish my dream of being a mom!" This is so touching! 😭 I am not crying, y'all are crying 😭😭😭😭❤
This reminds me of a sweet film called Leafie: A hen into the Wild about a battery hen that dreams of raising her own baby and escapes her farm then ends up having to raise a duckling like her own son. It’s a very sweet Korean film and I recommend it
I swear your channel is the most uplifting thing on TH-cam. I look forward to every download you have. Thank you for bringing such beautiful life, you are such positive viewing pleasure... Beautiful wood duck!!
When my children were small we bought them 2 silkies. Like you say, they can be very broody. They got too much for our backyard and we gave them away to our Zoo where other farm animals were held for children to see. Good memories as I am old now (76yrs). Thank you for your nice video. I really enjoyed it. I am from Pretoria, Capital City of South Africa.
Thank you Alvin. You make me so happy. It brings tears to my eyes, every time I watch you tenderly and lovingly assist, with a difficult birth. Thank you, for all that you do. I hope to become a Patreon member, in the near future 😍🐥🐓🦆
WOOD DUCK of North America. I have always wanted a pair. One of my favorites. It’s very important to leave dead trees standing, for wildlife like Wood Ducks and owls to live in. Of course if a dead tree might fall on a house, it needs to be cut or braced.
The duck is one I haven't seen in a domesticated setting before. It's a Wood Duck native to America. You're lucky!
THIS NEED SMORE LIKES
A male wood duck as well so brother duck(in this case) is correct
Aren't those the ones that have their nest in tree holes where the ducklings Jump out from?
You got a male wood duck?! They are from North America and are among the top beautiful birds in the northern states.
@Marceline Ingot So cute. So lucky.
baby duck: quacks
hen: he's just clucking in spanish or somethin.
This needs to be appreciated
this one is so underrated lol😭
@Corvoid Radio LoL
@Corvoid Radio LoL
@Corvoid Radio LoL so funny
Proud Mother hen - "Yes he is my eldest and he is an excellent swimmer"
Dont you mean EGG-cellent?
Imagine if chickens could “speak” instead of just signalling with other chickens using sounds. That’d be a really weird conversation to have with your “chicken friend”
🤣🤣🤣
😅jjaja
Well, maybe they do speak with each other. These bird brains have a lot more going on under the hood than we can imagine!
I am always touched by seeing the gentle, thoughtful care for the tiniest new birds here.
I would not have known to dampen the shell to help this chick survive. Everyone needs encouragement and to know they are not alone. You can see in that newborn chick’s eyes that his first experience outside the egg was that he felt safe and warm and cared for.
You can’t just pull them out of the egg when they’re ready to hatch, they’re attached to the skin like layer under the shell. If you open the egg you will rip off the part of them that is attached. The water dissolves the part that glues them to the egg.
@@Frank-wr2nf Thank you for explaining the detail; now we have learned the important why. It always helps to understand the reason. 🐣
@@Frank-wr2nf
I decided to help a little chick out that had already made the break through.
I was very careful and patient, but it killed it.
It didn’t live long after coming out of the shell.
It probably lived no more than a half hour.
They say, you need to let them do it on their own. I’m glad this one worked out.
I love seeing a man being so kind & gentle 😊
They also have a navel cord. Once shown in a ACCA film. its si fascinating. Normaly we don’t know . ACCA told us then: if hit to early, the chick bleeds to dead. He is verry careful…. 💖🙏
“Mamma chick is doing a great job”
Mamma chick: *aggressively attacks plant*
Thats her life style.
🤣
Yesss xddd
i saw half of this meme and then I watched this part and then I was like this has to be a meme and I thought about this mama chick doing a great job and then I scrolled down and saw ur meme😱😱
We also had a silky,but that hen was very aggressive with other chickens so we sold it.
I love that she just looks at the duck and goes "my son" and acts like everything's normal
Silkie hen: “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.... it’s my son” 😌
A this channel is the most wholesome I have ever seen
The "my son" just made me think of the miku life of a coomer.
I miss my mom
@@achmaddaru9456 me too
3:45 awwww the moment she cleaned the duckling's beak by plucking away that small piece of hay is amazing. Just like a mother of any kind would!!! My heart 😊
Like are mom's
Yesss that was so precious
Silkies are sweet, gentle chickens, that make wonderful mothers. Thank you for giving this sweet girl the gift of motherhood. You gave her fertile eggs, she gave them life. Never think "it's only a chicken". They love their babies & are so happy to do what all mother's do; nurture new life. I so loved this 🐔🐣🐤
They really are wonderful, I love my silkies
The second time he’s taking her unfertilized eggs to give her viable ones, she doesn’t peck him or fight at all 🥺 I think she remembers him giving her the eggs that her son hatched from
Yeah you're right, she looks happy with that 🤗
Fax
What a lovely chicken
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I think its because he takes the unfertilised ones just before so she thinks its them that he is puting back under. My guess
The Silkie is like: How dare you you touch my nest.. oh? Oh wait? There are more eggs now. EGGS. MUST. SIT.
When the egg rolled out she just looked at it and goes:
“And what do you think you’re doing?”
*rolls egg under self*
“Yes. That’s better.”
This man:*puts unfertilized eggs*
Silky hen:i dont know who they are, i dont know where they're from, all i know is i must SIT
@@yamada1373 IMFAO FR
lol
@@Mr-Pigeon uhhhhh
Mother nature: looks like this egg is gonna die
This man: no
🙂🙂🥺😢
That Is What We All Should Do! Save Lives!
@@oonagibbons4530 thats what i want to do in the future.
@@ghostassassin1630 same
Albert seems like a sort of god to me
The Duck is a wood duck. I have plenty but, they are wild and nest by my pond. I have 1 broody Hen Chicken (Rhode Island Red), and 1 broody Hen Turkey. They sit on chicken eggs, goose eggs, duck eggs, turkey eggs. Any eggs. When they hatch, it could be anything in the nest. They even sit on each others nests. They dont mind at all. They are proud of their babies, even the ones that dont look like them. 😁👍🏻
❤️
I love how the duck stayed by his mom's side and watched over his little siblings
Ye, that's how quick the silkies will go back broody.
@@irishfarmingwilliam4652 amazing that they don't peck at their weaned young ones. When my hens have new little ones they chase after their old ones
He probably thinks he's a chicken.
"every hen is meant to be a mother"
My hens: *lay an egg and walk away*
my grandmas hens :fOoD? (they've only done it a few time, never knew y)
@@verycrazeegaming5727 Maybe they had a nurtient deficiency? And the natural instinct is to combat it by eating an egg that is very rich in nutrients?
My Bean will lay an egg and then become terrified of it 🙄
@@louibeans Nah. It's a learned behavior, if they ever get access to one dropped egg and eat it, they realize how tasty they are and then will break open any egg they see.
@@louibeans Well they are also straight up cannibals too cause they usually give them left overs and sometimes its chicken
Chicken: Hello child!
Duck: *am i adopted.*
Lol
no
Idk
Duck: Am I mutant?
*yesn't*
She proves that being a mom isn't about the color of your feathers, or the sound of your quack. It's about the love you teach, & the warmth you share
My silkie is raising 2 little quacker ducks at the moment. The other little duckling is now 6 weeks old, raised by another little bantam hen. The two hen's mothering styles differ so much. Interesting to watch.
That was So beautiful. ☺️🌸🍃
She didn’t seem to peck at his hand the second go around. It is if she had learned that he was there to help give her eggs to lay. Team work makes the dream work!
I laugh when she peck his hand
@@EmaStrawberry me too🤣
It hurts when my adolescent chicks would peck my hand to eat when I'd hand feed them, imagine a full grown mom that's mad!
🐔❤🙂
@@caprisunsess1753 it would probably feel about the same as being stabbed with a pen that hard. Youch.
I love that the duck has become her deadbeat adult son who refuses to move out.
Lol🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
Or he took loans to college
That's funny!!
My brother is that deadbeat son and I swear I'm just counting the down the days until he moves.. however I doubt hell move anytime soon cos he's dependent on my mum for pretty much everything
I love how at 3:45, the hen got rid of that little piece of hay that was clinging to his beak! That was so adorable! Every mom does that!!
My mother raised rare breeds of birds as a hobby for 40hrs. For many years she had a favorite silky hen that she named ‘little mama’ Who sat on and raised hundreds of birds for her- from ducks to turkeys and many rare breeds of chickens. She was an amazing and loving mother hen.
@@LazloNQ prob meant years obv
@@LazloNQlol that's what I thought, too. Raising hundreds of ducks, turkeys and chickens in 40 hours would be quite difficult to achieve! Ha ha! 😅😂🤣
I like that the second time you gave her eggs she just begrudgingly squeaked.
"For some reason they only hatch when you touch em. Please don't. Please don't touch me. But give me egg. No, stop touchie. I want them to hatch. Stop."
Hen be like "who's eggs are those?" 2 seconds later "MINE!!!"
Everyone: thers no hope now...
This guy: hold my incubator
@German Shepherd dog German Shepherd dog stop spamming. get reported instead
Lmao that’s a good one. I laughed out loud at this. XD
Before I stumbled across this video I thought chickens where just livestock, and I didn't much concern myself with them. But when I saw this I was awestruck with how caring they can be, and it set me down a rabbit hole learning all I could about them. I now have a flock of six hens, one of which is a fluffy little white silkie.
Now wait to see how cows and ewes behave with their babies :D. Or not, your garden may not be big enough :p.
But wow, going from not caring to actually raising them, in six months only, is really impressive. Say hello to your birbs for me!
That's wonderful ❤
This man's life is every disney character's when they start singing a song. The duck is beatiful btw.
American wood duck. Such beautiful birds.
Even the Disney villains? Tamatoa comes to mind...
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People makes horrible bird farms
This guy: literally raises every chick and animal with passion love and care
Some people do that I have Chickens we have for eggs and we raised them with love and passion and care
I saw a farm but they did not care for the birds instead treated then badly
Lets just give him respect bc he changed naturę a bit so his chicken has a big family
The big farms(i dont even wanna call them farms,more like torture houses) where chickens have to only lay eggs and cant move from cages
I hate those houses,if i could i would just ban these houses
I wish to have a big garden,and have chickens and/or ducks,these heings are so adorable, why do humans treat them horribly
@@sova1235 all they see is profit, yes we cant deny the fact that allot of people eat them and some need them for medical purposes but that doesnt mean that we need to make their whole lives horrible, allot of people say animals have no emotion but they do and they just cant see that and just profit, i wish that someone or something would open their eyes for once😞
"He ain't my blood, ain't got my name
But if he did, I'd feel the same.."
Lines in action..
🥺🥺
😭
Watching you paint the dried out egg with water...you are a wonderful man.
Death: you can’t save them all
Him: _IS THAT A CHALLENGE?_
Death: well... Yes
HE CAN.............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HIS MAN IS ADAM IN THE TRUEST SENSE......PUTS US ALL TO SHAME!!!!!
AND HASHEM AND YESHUA AND HOLY SPIRIT.............????????THEY KNOW HOW SPECIAL HE IS !!!!!!!!!!!!
@@mfrmll3786 Amen
He has what is called Adams gift
@@mfrmll3786 WTF
This just proves that that story about the ugly duckling wouldn’t happen.
Yes
Yay
Yasssssss chickens are great mamas
Y e s
@German Shepherd dog German Shepherd dog please stop self promoting in comment sections.
It always amazes me how one little bird grows perfectly inside that much space in an egg shell. Thanks for helping that little one get out!! I'm always in awe of the work you do!
This is all done by allah
This is all done by allah
@@tariqali130 you're right
@@nagitoecumaeda2436 no
@@tariqali130 this isnt done by allah this is done by the man in the video with his own two hands
The duck is a wood duck, native to the Southern US and the chick's remind me of pheasants I've seen in Fla when I lived there. They're usually in packs. They remind me of a cross between a chicken and a turkey. Also they're pretty funny to watch! Really not sure what they are but that's the closest to what they looked like to me from what I can tell.
The little ones at the end are guinea fowl
I also thought guinea fowl especially the pied piper one's head gives it away.
I thought the chicks were peacocks
I had a chicken that raised some baby ducklings... Much to her horror when they jumped in the pond, as ducks do, and she half swam half flew across the pond to stay with them.
😄😄😄
😂
Oh, so precious.
Love is blind ❤️🤣
Aauch😍😍😍😍
The duck looks like a wood duck. They aren't usually pets. But this one is now
It's a wood duck. Look on its head and you will see feathers going down its neck
Oh, I knew it!
What about the chicks?
@@alialmaliki7470 I was thinking quail, but there's no way
@@billydiedlol guinnea fowl
The duck is definitely an American Wood Duck, it’s still kinda hard to tell with the chicks though, they almost look like Guinea/Chickens
I say wood duck too.
I thought the same thing about the chicks
All same though
Chicks are definitely cotornix quails!
Guineas
It is very heartwarming to see such a warm tender caring man taking such wonderful care of tiny little lives.
I wish there were more men like you in the world.
"Our Big Bro looks a bit weird, but he is awesome!"
He's not weird
@@alyaqistinashahrulriza5635 You are a classic example of someone missing the point.
@@Shikaschima hmm, I can take that...
That second batch of chicks aren’t chickens either, those a guinea keets.
God help him ,They are a wild and noisy bird, they can fly.
@@rickszabo4312 to be fair, so is the duck
And the eggs are speckled and the pattern on the top of the chicks heads looks like those of pearl guineas as well.
@Zeta Ophiuchi Crewmate no, it’s a species of bird
Oh great! You're right!! Just looked it up. This has got to be the bird equivalent of a mixed-heritage family by now...
"He didn't know which eggs they were."
Me- what if one of em was a lizard egg?
that would be amazing ngl
Considering that most reptile eggs need to stay still and unturned, mama silky would have killed it
@Dylan Campbell watch snake discovery, they have vids that explain it well
@@dianea3324 You are correct. They are leathery. By appearance they look and feel like shell but, when they open you see they are like a leather sack. The membrane in chicken eggs more closely resembles a reptile egg but if course much thicker. Most will dry out if it's not humid enough where they are laid/buried. That is correct about reptile eggs not being able to be turned. The reason is that the majority of reptiles lay their eggs and leave. They don't stay around for hatching. I have only seen mothering type behavior in Crocodiles and Alligators. So therefore there would be no parent to stay around to continually turn the eggs. So the develop the air pocket on the top side. If they are turned after a brief period they will suffocate and die or drown depending on how humid the nest is.
;)
That sure brought back memories! My grandma gave me my first job on the farm, gathering eggs from the henhouse. She gave me my basket and told me to gather as many as I could find. It took me awhile but when I went back to the kitchen I said "Well Grandma, it was quite a fight! But I got them! Here!" She looked at all the peck marks on my hands and arms and said "OH NO! You got my setting hens!" (come to find out, she didn't think I was tall enough to get up to those chickens on the "upper floors" of the henhouse but I did! I wanted to do a good job)
I had no idea what that meant, setting hens. this was over 65 years ago, but I do remember fighting those mama chickens! Grandam was able to figure out which eggs were which and put them back, then showed me later what setting hens meant, even letting me hold the baby chickens. Well, I learned a tough life lesson, that some chicken moms really fight for their babies. Growing up on my grandparents farm was amazing, it was like stepping back in time. No running water, no electricity, everything was from the farm, milk, butter, eggs, vegetables and of course meat which was the hardest thing to learn about.
So different from today, sometimes I think it might be a good lesson for kids to work on a farm for awhile, you would definitely never hear them say "I'm bored!"
The duck is a wood duck and the chicks are guinea fowl keets.
Yeah exactly !
I didn't need to know this but I'm glad I do
@Grace Rich mandarin ducks are golden and orange in color.
Yay! Some one else said the same thing I said! Great analysis!😉
@Grace Rich I have to disagree with you buddy. He is for sure wood duck male. Just google both mandarin and wood duck and compare the face and chest markings. But yes their body shape is really similar :)
This is beautiful. What a good mum. She didn't care that some were different to others. No ugly ducklings here.
This statement made my heart happy.
Hen : !hey please don't take my eggs
Man: *proceed to put eggs in a better spot*
Man: *then puts hen in a better spot*
Hen: understandable have a good day
Lol 😂
XD
Lmao
Wow didn't knew that had *so* many likes
Second time he added eggs she wasn't as grumpy
Hi again, I just noticed I had commented twice, a year ago and two years ago, funny I can enjoy the same video so many times they're so heart warming, and alway's lift my spirit, thank you for sharing,❤
Video - "One of the eggs was behind" Subscribers - "Here we go again"
@Julainy Garcia it s not a mean comment it s just a joke
Did anyone else’s heart melt watching a grown man struggle to free a chick from his egg?
Well...I almost cried! One good man is worth a million of evil ones
YES! I totally "get" this man. I have the same kinda heart for animals, having empathy and reverence for all living creatures. This man has my utter respect.
No.
Mine exploded
He was wetting the egg to soften it...
I think anyone who can say.."ahrr.", must have a caring nature themselves OR at least empathy for nature. That's a good thing.
This man is always entertaining me with his disney skills and his bird
YES
He is the real Disney princess.
@@anuwilson9039 yes
@@PS-vr1uv Honestly, he could take out all of the Disney Princesses *TM* with all of his bird and animal family.
Making the hen happy, helping the baby hatch, you are a wonderful person. This warmed my heart.
The world needs more people like this man,
So let’s be more like him.
Mr. Rogers, Bob Ross, and A Chick Called Albert’s Dad.
life is precious
espiecally the smol ones
Yes
@@sailorbrite lsosowkwkwow
@@sailorbrite kak2
adoption center: how many eggs do you want to hatch?
Silkies: *Yes*
Wdym
Lol 😂
@@Cat-vp8vt They mean that , because this breed of chicken LOVES to sit on eggs and hatch out babies as soon as they can after hatching out the prior batch. I hope this helps.
Orpingtons are also a great choice if you need a broody hen.
Lol that was cute 🥰
Duck: *Grows bigger*
Hen: W-what did i feed my baby???
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Lol
@@xiomarafunesgonzalez9487 what
@@xiomarafunesgonzalez9487 what the heck
@@xiomarafunesgonzalez9487 ikr
One of my silkie hens, Chickarella, steals everyone's eggs in the coop then sits on them. She had 20 eggs one time! Hatched them all. She will flog you in a heartbeat if she even sees you eyeballing her babies.
"Timothy, it's time to get out of bed and see the world!"
"JUST FIVE MORE MINUTES, MOM!"
...
"MAMA HAAAAALP!"
"You let the membrane dry, didn't you?"
@German Shepherd dog German Shepherd dog stop spamming 🙃
😂
It warms my heart seeing a grown adult man sitting over a baby bird egg and doing everything in his power to make sure it is fine
That duck's girlfriend is going to have questions when she meets his mom and siblings.
Also, cute video. :)
true
Omg true 😂
i just realized that little chicks start peeping before they’re born. this is a beautiful video. duckie is still attached to his mum. sigh! beautiful. . . 🐓🐣🦆🌷🌱
My 6 week old duckling has out grown his little mother bantam hen, but if he does not see her, he goes crazy.
Him: Puts eggs in her nest
Her: Well I guess these are mine now
the type of duck: handsom
the type of chicks: adorable
silly
Silky: "weird baby, but that'll do"
By the way, the duck seems to be a Mallard variant
It looks like a mandarin or wood duck to me
@@chasityredou7920 mandarin
Wood duck- woods are green, mandarins are orange and have much longer crests. They’re both pretty though!
It is similar to a mandarin but i think it is a carolina duck
Edit: also called a wood duck
It's a juvenile wood duck. Not a mallard.
Such a sweet story!! I love the way the eldest sibling, the duck, is still a member of the family.
When this channel uploads the entirety of *2020* becomes better managable and serene
Whatever breed they are, one things for sure, they are adorable!
I feel you should have your own Disney movie, the first one purely about a King and his animals.
The duck looks like a wood duck, but I have a hard time deciphering duck breads....
A U T O C O R R E C T SUCKS!
*Breeds...
@@empatheticallyme5971 breeds not breads
@@empatheticallyme5971 b r e a d s
I love how you can just shove a bunch of random eggs under pretty much any kind of bird and they‘ll just be like: „Huh, weird thing, but keepers finders. I‘m your mother now!“
Like it doesn‘t even matter to them if it‘s much bigger than their own.
Chickens WILL go for the biggest egg they can find. They want tall kids. Image search "chicken ostrich egg". In an experiment, a hen abandoned her own eggs to sit on an ostrich egg.
My grandma is giving chickens duck eggs all the time when she dont have any adult ducks. Her chicken was even raising goose one time
Thats so cute and adorable :3
Taco
Goose?? How? They get so big! XD
@@ditkind1340 yeah, it looks super funny when, like, ten goose are running behind one chicken XD
@@maxrydzyn6263 i’d imagine hawks don’t mess with that chicken then
Chick: My father was a giant featherless creature!
Other chicks at school: WHAT IS GOIN ON HERE?
Hgdcg
And my brother a duck
Albert: thats me!
I love that she took the straw hanging from the duckling’s mouth 🥰
Yas the cutest part.
Haha I giggled at that part too
Care. She thought he might swallow it. 😊
Recognized that beautiful duck when saw his head. Gorgeous! Love Wood Ducks
The hen looks like she’s going to slap and sass everyone she sees XD
LMAO
She looks’ like an eccentric aunt
@@evanhawthorne-slater4459 eggcentric perhaps?
@@yellododo 😆😆👌
There’s no reason to hate this man.
He is deserves the best in life.
The chicken is a better mother than I would be when I'm older
They counts for all of us
The chicken is a better animal than I would be when I'm older
*I know it sounds weird
Cluck cluck
@@Velkxis yes it does
If I ever had a kid (which won’t happen) I already know ima be mean. I JUST HATE KIDS there’s no reason to it 😔
i just loved when the silkie took a little strand of straw that was stuck to the ducklings mouth
When 2020 gives us crap, he gives us a fluffy cat-chicken raising a wood duck with guinea keet siblings.
Aww so cute how the second time around she just accepts he's movin eggs
I had a silk hen, she had black feathering, but she died some months after for unknown reasons... 😢 It’s the most beautiful kind of hen I could have! 😊 I’m really happy to see yours be a mother!
A message from Quebec! 😁
My silkies only lived about 5 years, when I was little we used to use food coloring and dye the chicks pink or blue. Got some Polish hens now.
I'm sorry about your hen. I hope you're feeling OK. It hurts to lose your pets.
I'M FROM THERE TWO THAT'S WHERE I LIVE-
That's why I reconized my fav duck breed so easily-
I had a white baney chick that wasn't even a year old when it died. I named the white baney Fluffy and I had gotten Fluffy at a Tractor Supply Co. Fluffy was the only white baney chick there.
We also got 5 others because you had to have at least 6 to be able to buy them. My mom's brother got all of them except for 2. The 2 we kept was my white baney and our other one April.
They liked being around eachother and running around the yard.
Fluffy died because the neighbors had let their dogs roam freely without being watched. They attacked both of the chicks and when my dad went outside my dog made a run for it. My dog chased the other dogs away. He managed to save my brother's chick April.
We decided to take April to my dad's parents to be with their chickens just so that April had some friends and a safe place to stay away from dogs who like to attack...
April is really nice and doesn't really like dogs that much anymore...
She is a beautiful hen and I love her personality. The way she looked after that little duck with such care and interest is so sweet.. Thank you soo much for letting her be a mother. And it seems she loved being one. Hope you give her more babies to look after. Be happy, little Silkie :) 🕊️🦢🐔🦆🌷🌱
I love how the silkie is biting him when he tries to move her
“I dunno where u came from but imma keep u and raise u like my children anyways”
he is such a gentleman and no one can deny that
Agreed
He saved a baby chick's life!
I love how she plucked the hay hanging from its beak.❤
May God bless you for making that little friend complete his hatching
*him* : uploads.
*everyone* : rushes to comments.
people being like, "FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST" ugh.
@@meo-conluvsU. but I replied SECOND though...
@@Velkxis but i replied THIRD though...
@@Velkxis okay nice
@@wispy218 okay nice
OMG did you see how she pecked his hand when he switched her eggs to the ducks eggs? Did you also notice how patient she was when he placed the chick eggs? It was almost like she was saying with her eyes "thank you for helping me to accomplish my dream of being a mom!" This is so touching! 😭 I am not crying, y'all are crying 😭😭😭😭❤
Crying? You've got to be kidding? Hilarious.
@@shelbyseelbach9568 you are very big and steonf
@@chickengoals1006 ?
Aw when the chick was snug in the mother's fluff ☺️ that was so cute 🥰 🥺
This reminds me of a sweet film called Leafie: A hen into the Wild about a battery hen that dreams of raising her own baby and escapes her farm then ends up having to raise a duckling like her own son. It’s a very sweet Korean film and I recommend it
Glad I wasn't the only one! Love that film though the ending made me cry! ^^
Sounds good
It reminded me of this book called 'The Hen who Dreamed she could Fly', also by a Korean author, and was very sweet and sad.
@@bellaander i believe thats the book leafie was based on :)
Wonderful film indeed
We need more people like him from saving eggs from dying and saving chicks and hens
My TH-cam is on drugs yo it says this has 90 likes but it has 5
we need be more like him. Gentle with every kinda life.
I saved my boy Reggie when he was about 2 weeks old
He could be a Muscovy
I’ve seen my hens raise their own babies from their own eggs but seeing a Mama Silkie with her Duck Son and little Guinea Keats takes the cake
Outstanding. You helping her be a mom. You helped the one hatch. How sweet. I love animals so this is very touching..
he’s done this before with another chicken who wanted to be a mum, it’s nice that he helps his chickens be moms when they want to be moms
Can we have a whole video about all the animals you have right now? I don't care if the video will be 1 day long, I'll watch it! 0.o
I swear your channel is the most uplifting thing on TH-cam. I look forward to every download you have. Thank you for bringing such beautiful life, you are such positive viewing pleasure... Beautiful wood duck!!
When my children were small we bought them 2 silkies. Like you say, they can be very broody. They got too much for our backyard and we gave them away to our Zoo where other farm animals were held for children to see. Good memories as I am old now (76yrs). Thank you for your nice video. I really enjoyed it. I am from Pretoria, Capital City of South Africa.
I love this grandpa. He's such a nice person
He's a young man dude wassup
@@raghav6536 grandpa to the ducky?
@@Burning_Dwarf ohh ok sorry 😅
@@raghav6536 he is not old but he is still 50
@@Sciencedoneright he will be always young!
4 years ago : "Can a chicken raise a duck?"
2020 :'"Chicken raises duck"
2024 : "Can a duck raise a chicken?"
Edit : Thanks for the likes!
2028:"Duck raises chicken"
2032 : Chicken raises a human
@Karan dhabalia wow it's a joke
@Karan dhabalia r/whoosh
@Karan dhabalia It's a joke you didn't have to be a Karen about it.
Mother Nature: This chick is too weak to break through its shell, it must die
This Man: ...and so I took it personally
@Zeta Ophiuchi Crewmate why would we hate you?
Thank you Alvin. You make me so happy. It brings tears to my eyes, every time I watch you tenderly and lovingly assist, with a difficult birth. Thank you, for all that you do. I hope to become a Patreon member, in the near future 😍🐥🐓🦆
Me: In the middle of watching him hatch the egg
Ad: Making dads favorite turkey?
Jeez TH-cam gotta chill
Oh jeez 😅
Lol
Same but I got a Chik Fil A ad.... ew
Baby chicks: mom why is older brother looks different?
Mother hen: He's adopted don't tell him tho
Lol
😂😂
XD
I dont think she knows that he's adopted.
Do not tell your sibling ,, you have DIFFRENT DADDY,,sorry
🤣😂
The little duckling is like"my mom is a little different but she's the best mom in the world"
WOOD DUCK of North America. I have always wanted a pair. One of my favorites.
It’s very important to leave dead trees standing, for wildlife like Wood Ducks and owls to live in.
Of course if a dead tree might fall on a house, it needs to be cut or braced.