Broody hen makes collecting eggs difficult.

[MrRob8254]

poor thing



[Neilraymondestefano]

ohhhh.... she's like crying.

[svetlanalupesku]

ohh..so cute....

[AncientArabianRocky]

Lol! Jesus, she sounds like my teacher!

[realsaraSKELLINGTON]

I'd pick her up and give her a big fat squeeze, just for the sake of being absolutely adorable!!! ^.^

[BokBokBokBrigha]

Aw her face is so cute :D

[HatchetFirelette]

lol that was funny my comet hen does that when i take her eggs every morning she is like NOOOOOOOOOOOO noooooooooo..... ok lol

[neffada53]

I've heard somewhere that going broody shortens a hen's life. Is this true?

[HatchetFirelette]

@neffada53 it's because they don't eat as much and it takes alot out of them if u just put a bowl of food and water next to them and give them some vitamins its fine.

[neffada53]

@HatchetFirelette Aha! Thanks for the info!

[HatchetFirelette]

@neffada53 ur welcome :)

[Aerodil]

SQWAKKKKK! Holy cow, she is like "Get away from the eggs thief!"

[NetGrate]

he or she is really cute once you pet him\her

[Strookers]

aw, that is so cute :b

[FalterrisAunvre]

That is ONE MAD BROODY hen! I love how they fluff up their feathers.

[C3P0meetsData]

i tried petting my broody hen like you did toward the end of the video. She pecked me so hard that it tore my skin.

[smokingmypot657]

@C3P0meetsData  LOL i bet you won't try that again init

[VelvetSparrow1]

So cute. :)  Shriek! Growl! Ooh, pet me....Shriek, growl Yeah, scratch my head, mama, I love it....grump Pet meee.....

[realsaraSKELLINGTON]

AWWWWW!!! that was so cute!!!

[dino30001]

aww! so cute! i am never eating chiken again irl!

[beautywolfy]

XD Hens are so funny

[AlbumLeViola]

i like this hennnn!!! cute faceee

[bunniboo1414]

that chicken is adorable

[CodeSworn]

To all you people saying "Let it Hatch" when the eggs are infertile, they will only end up rotting underneath the chicken. Some breeds, like Red Stars and Barred Rocks never give much trouble, while others, like Rhode Island Reds, Orpingtons, and the Cochins and Silkies shown here often do.

[betboo99]

Aww she's just like my Sussex chicken very protective but if you leave them on there egg they wont lay anymore so all the people out there saying 'let it hatch' should go buy their on rooster and chicken and have them hatch the egg.

Aslo are a few of them sebrights because i love them their so small and dainty

[lisantigerblair]

lol try taking eggs from a guinea

[SanityBreached]

Omg that little face! Too cute :D

[PubumProductions]

what breed is that?



[kfg70]

peachery does that only not that loud

[Animaltricks18]

1 of our hens was broody nd we thought she was ill at first nd got rlly worried -.- but shes broody at the moment nd she pecks us wen we try nd take the eggs ...

[marydok1]

raaaape raaaape!!

[Blackrosereaper]

my hens used to do this all the time, i mark a couple of eggs and let them have em, the rest are going in the frying pan ^.^

[ghostmewtwo]

btw broody means how well they will be a mother. not how mean thay are

[Min027]

That hen looks so cute and cuddly. I had a pekin that loved going broody and she'd scream like that when I collected her eggs.

[Toonrocker77]

broken an eg in her ough xD that would be sad. When i collect eggs they are NEVER on them, not seen them on one yet. well a couple times but not these hens, and mine are the same as yours! i come in and they are perching, with 9 eggs in one laying place! idk if they take turns all night or what

[XXyttriumXX]

My friends hen did this xDD She got herself so dirty, cos' she would just sit there in her coop all day shrieking at anyone who came into the yard! I love this video so much! <3

[MrFatboy83]

wta do broodie mean? when they are laying? or sitting on nest to hatch youngins?

[XXyttriumXX]

Well in this case it means pissy and agitated. xD

[quinnbeeloved]

one angry chicken...

[ayesha1ful]

@quinnbeeloved no.. not angry .. a chicken in tension lol

[followmetotheriot]

That was so cute! but sad cause she was screeching like she was upset. Broody hens are so attractive! I have 16 hens and not one of them has ever been broody :< But I do have 4 Silkies that are to start laying late next month. And Silkies have a reputation for being broody and I also heard they make excellent mothers.

[dixiefarmgirl]

LOL=] mine did this 2 with her eggs so i left her alone later came back and she hatched 12 adorable little baby chicks but sadly 7 of them drowned and them some butthole poisened 2 more of them so sadly i only have3 chicks =[ rip peaches and eagle =[

[CarouselChicken]

That sounds familiar, I have several pure silkies and cochins, and a few crosses.

I love them, but they do choose the most inconvenient times to go broody. :)

[lucybuffallo]

my silkie does this too .... it sounds like im hurting her but im not even touching her .... i guess she fell in love with her egg .....

[powerofpurple2007]

aww "get away from my egg! its mine!" <3

one thing, if thats happening alot you might want to consider seeing if somethings wrong with her. might have a broken egg in her (painful)

[danratsnapnames]

you can trigger any chicken to be broody with a fake clutch of eggs. this is what they do when its time to try and hatch them. if they are not firtile, then yes, they will just spoil. its best to keep all laying areas clean of all eggs, or you'll risk one of your hens going broody. some get like this just before and after laying. if they brood for more than 1 day, they will stop laying for a time. some longer than others.

[HaileyJane19]

Aww :)

I know she's all upset that you're around her while she's being broody but gosh that's too damn cute :)

[teenmod12]

omg. its like my mom when its past five and she has not had a drink yet.

[chickenmom]

my little Suzie makes that noise when she can't find Phillip.

[maximilli111]

LOL i got a chicken with the name Suzie to :D

[chickenmom]

Well thank you for that. I didn't know. My hen stopped laying 6 1/2 years ago so I really don't have any experience in the egg laying department

[Gr8Teaist]

Okay, she's pro-life. I get that.

[MikiSuzaki]

Will they go broody on unfertilized eggs? If you take all their eggs away when they're broody will they stop?

[poopybooyah]

why is hen squawking?

[ath1931]

sometimes they get upset when you approach them while they're on an egg or laying an egg.

[LaurenMinutes]

aw her cute wittle face, she squawks and closes her eyes :D

[vboris1234]

come on PUSHHH!!!! 1...2....3!!! PUSH

dam dat chciken looks like it wuz in pain

=[

[cksilverado1]

They will brood if you do not pick up the eggs...I belive that the more they collect, the more protective they get.

[LambieSinClair]

whats broody??

[suicune690]

Incubating eggs.

[LambieSinClair]

:) thanks :)

[Zebrafinch18]

when a hen is broody they will sit on thier eggs or a period of time to keep them warm and hatch

[LambieSinClair]

does broody make her upset cuz the eggs r being touched?

[bluesniper345]

omg its like a furby lmao!

[Zebrafinch18]

lol!

[Mewmoon14]

my chicken does that to but i´m the only one who may look at them and if my mother and sister want to look she pecked them :D

[Kaftar21]

Poor girl she's complaining that she wants to be left alone with her eggs

[avatarofavatars]

translated, shes saying

"NUUUUU! THESE ARE MIIIIIINE!"

[chickenmom]

Oh goodness grecious maybe you should just let her sit on them. She really looks upset and really looks like she wants to be a mommy.

[ThInTrM]

chickenmom: Erm ... I'm pretty sure the eggs would eventually rot if he let her have his way. The hen doesn't know any better. That's why they collect the egs and try not to let them build up, or they'll get like this.

[realsaraSKELLINGTON]

@chickenmom to baby chicks that are not even there.

[pneumosilico]

That's a well-behaved hen! I had a mutt of a thing who learned how to grip and twist when she pecked- it drew blood most of the time.

[iluvbuickgnx]

I used to have some Buff Orpingtons. When they went broody, we called them Doberhens...man those things could bite!! After a while I started wearing gloves in the chickencoop!

[DazzleGlow]

Yay! you have Seabrights!! i have a red star sex link/leghorn cross that will peck me hard if i try to collect eggs from her!

[macballa13]

lol she screamed!!! and closed her eyes ... mine just fluff up.

[rwu19290]

wow! she is soo determined to be a mommy!

[zsteev]

I need someone to help me out: My hen has laid 11 eggs in a nest she made, she has a rooster, open space, quality food and water. However she is not sitting on the eggs. Any of you have any idea why is this ?

[claytonjaros]

zsteev: It's Clayton. I live on a farm, so I can help you out. It could be that the eggs aren't fertile (meaning that the eggs aren't capable of producing a chick). Or it could just be that the hen doesn't have motherly instincts.

[zsteev]

Thank you Clayton for that tip. I replied with a comment on your channel

[antionidept]

even if the eggs aren't fertile, a broody hen will always try to hatch them. she doesn't know if an egg is fertile or not.

[YouFupidStucker]

You should have seen my hen when she was broody! I'd offer her some water from a container and food from my hand and she would go craaaaaaaaaaazy!!! If I took her off the nest, she'd follow me around attacking me whilst I was removing the poop from their pen!

(they are normally free range, but we kept them in the pen whilst the veggie patch grew big enough to support nets)

[67genxer]

they work so hard at making eggs, i always feel so sad taking them from underneath them. poor things.

[deadlynova965]

Yeah... I don't like taking their babies from them =( but my parents don't mind... I would never steal an egg from a chicken, unless she left it unnatended and uncared for.

[67genxer]

With mine, I ended up with so many birds that I had to draw the line but I used to let the broodies hatch their eggs. You can't win because if the eggs are not fertile, they won't hatch and eventually, the bird gets depressed and some of the leading hens in the flock will punish the hen for failing and not producing any chicks. I've seen it happen. I have a Blue silkie that just loves to be a mum, lives for it, but I can't have anymore birds for a while and she is depressed about it.seriously

[theotherther1]

Punish her for infertility? How sadly human. Chickens must have a greater brain capacity then I thought.

This hen screams like I do when I fall over.

[starshock01]

id be mad too if i got poked with a stick

[coryzilla]

Oh well she just brooty by haert

[Angleechaneen]

Matonius

OK, but the Chicken is probably acting maternally, and instinctively : )

[Angleechaneen]

: ( "Leave my babies alone"

[Matonius]

The eggs are not fertile.

[zsteev]

I thought so Matonius, I had a young hen a few years ago and she didn't have a rooster, yet she was really broody, afterward a female duck hatched ducklings and she would take care of them like if they were her own. Sadly that hen dissapeared mysteriously, never to be heard from again. :(

[HelloThar9]

Look at 18 seconds.

Her face looks so funny xD

[Rockityrocker]

thats the noise my silkie-serama-pekin-something else hens make when i try an take their eggs when they're broody lol!

[bornfree15]

i think its SO funny!

[coryzilla]

Let the chicks hach

[Matonius]

I have NO male chickens.

[Matonius]

The eggs are NOT fertile. Therefore, would NEVER hatch.

[Teenytinyboo]

We had an angel fish that did the same. She layed her eggs on the underside of a leaf in the fish tank and spent all day keep the other fish on the other side of the tank lol, it looked rediculous her on one side of the tank guarding eggs that would never hatch and about 20 fish on the other side.

[winter489]

you can always buy day old chicks and just go at night fall and stick them under her she would take them.

[nilesblvd]

@coryzilla chicken eggs only have chicks in them if they have been fertilized. if there is no rooster around they will still lay eggs because the chicken has still ovulated just like female humans do. if you don't eat eggs because you think there is a microscopic embryo in them i assure you there is not. i have cracked open an egg with an embryo inside because we had a rooster on our farm and it its pretty noticeable

[origamimaster14]

she is cute

[Unclepickney]

are the eggs fertilized (do you have a rooster) ?

[prisonbreakobsessed]

soooo cute! when she clucks(or screams!)she closes her eyes...hahahahaha! funny

[PinkParez10]

aww cute but EVIL lol

[itsnotjodi]

lol! shes yellin at ya!

[birdbrainedhorse]

in my flock (about 80 birds) we have 7 broodies- (one per box) 5 are austrolourpes and two are bantam crosses... i'll be posting vids of them soon.

(the austros and the white bantam cross LOVE to peck prospecting egg-colctors)

[CowsAndCrows]

80 birds.. oh im jealous.. i only have 3.. giant brahman, speckled grey and a silkie.. i want more!

[birdbrainedhorse]

it's fun, but i think the birds are on strike. we gave 30 or so to 2 ppl, (on loan so to speak) and lost a few to hawks. the logical solution: get more! i have now 30 layers-on-the-way, 20 "core" layers, and 100 17 week old newbies. between them, the 3 turkies, 11, geese, and 23 ducks, i have no more lawn :(

[Rockityrocker]

i have only 2 pullets(hens but not layin),10 laying hens,an 1 cockeral...

[skunkfromtheashes]

sounds like a dinosaur

[tcfuturevet]

cochin, silkies, and bramahs, love going broody

[stetcos]

loool =)) =))

[ninjaskigirl]

that happened to one of my chicken

[abcstd4]

I know why thats happening, She didn't lay her eggs to be taken away, she laid her eggs coz she wants to have chicks!

[watdafxup2]

Poor chicken whats to be with her egg if i were you i would just let her keep it!! she sounds so sad

[stickmangod]

... you didnt even try to collect eggs...

(kinda goes against the tital)

[Kaberf]

Er birds in general, not just chickens. Doh :)

[Kaberf]

Chickens make some interesting noises. We have a hen that just went broody and it sounds like a little raptersaurus! I think those scientists that say dinosaurs evolved into chickens may be right :)

[ImRamro]

How do you know what a rapter REALLY sounds like?

[birdbrainedhorse]

all chicks start out with 12-20 vertebra in their tails, and as they develop, the genes stay "switched off" and the tail never grows. if the gene is ":actiuvated" long tails form

prehistoric small raptors had tails with 12-20 vertebra, as well as scales...

[skunkfromtheashes]

Its funny actually if you look at the t rex's hands they're kinda like chicken wings. Who would have thought they off all creatures would turn into chickens?

[birdbrainedhorse]

chickens decended from dinosaurs. when the big dinos were killed off, the small ones lived and evolved feathers.

some scientists have been able to genetically manipulate chick embryos, and make them grow teeth like aligators and ancient raptor tails.

[ZevSong]

That was just so cute! I love her whine!

[catnipmouse]

Ah, she is so sweet! I love her little voice. I have a few rescued pet hens. They are great and interesting pets!

[soheiljerusalem]

that's sad . why u dont let her have that eggs? she wants to be mother . please

[jackass12345678998]

She could be if its fertalized, but if its not you have to break it from that habbit

[ReuWil]

The eggs might not be fertilized.

[Matonius]

Fyi,no roosters allowed within city limits.

[farmchickfunnychickc]

Great video! Don' they sound funny when they're broody. Like they're in pain if you try to take the egg. She is a sweet bird, she didn't try to bite.

[CORNSiLK]

She's beautiful!

Gentle too, despite her complaining. I'm impressed that she didn't try to bite.

Mine usually snap when they're broody.

[topoche3]

I love hens! this one is very friendly!

[trialprice]

@topoche3 if you remove the hen to a nice quit little place in the shed or garage

put 10 to 12 eggs below her give her food and water and leave her for 21 days

yyyoul see nature working the best they need to be alone to what i call clock

i have a hen sitting on eggs now for 2 weeks i to go manny thanks

[Madagasmask]

Are those sebrights? :] *pets your cutey cochin mix* She's very sweet ^^

[arabiantxn]

lol

- its funny how you changed your mind and started petting her lol

[KillieKingdom]

She's really broody isn't she? When she screeches like that, does give you a bit of a headache?

[qokhein]

one egg is outside:)

[freelief]

Aww poor baby!