My dogs like the cheaping sound too!

@@boutchie06 So do my cats, but not in a good way!

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Yes there is actually. Baby Cheetahs. They also chirp by the way. Look it up you'll love it.

LMFAO!! you are a female!!! :D Have you laid an egg yet?!

Hi Deborah, you are so welcome and thanks for your lovely comments, they are appreciated, Sue

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That is the sign of a super good mother hen, who knows she is on a mission to hatch. I was amazed because the duck eggs were so different to the smaller bantam eggs my hens lay but our hens, particularly the Cochins, have such a strong mother instinct and they so love having chicks that they are prepared to sit on anything that looks like an egg. I once found a chicken in our vegetable plot sitting on a potato! All the very best and so sorry I only just found your comment! Sue

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Ha ha! Actually as they live in a forest garden and hopefully have a 'natural' as possible life, several of my hens are monogamous and have formed strong and lasting bonds with roosters. One of them is Millefeuilles, who was the other broody hen I tried out with the duck eggs at the start of the film, so you are right, if she had decided to hatch them her long-term mate Spike might have had something to say about it! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Lol...that's so funny! I just imagined that rooster thinking... hmm maybe we should reconsider hatching more chicks sweetie! Lol. It's fascinating what you were saying about the jungle fowl! I'm definitely going to check out your other videos and look forward to seeing & hearing more about your forest garden! It looks delightful, by the way!

Totally true! I just get addicted to having chicks because they all exude warmth and happiness at being together! All the very best, Sue

Exactly, which is why I go very slowly and carefully. Once there is a hole in the shell, made by the chick it can breathe so it is only a matter of the babies being exhausted, you just have to be patient whilst they take a rest between efforts and wait for them to do most of the work. The other thing I found with the ducklings, was that in trying to break out they actually became very thirsty, often drinking the water drops off my fingers, whilst I was damping down the shell membrane. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

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There is always that one chick that struggles getting out. But I actually pull the egg shell off in that case. It's too risky to just let it be because it may happen that the egg rolls on the side where the hole is while the chick is struggling to get out. I don't have the patience to keep watch over the egg until the chick manages to get out by itself. Oh and yeah....the chicks that I helped out were perfectly fine and in good health afterwards. I only pull the egg shell off if there is already a hole of course. Otherwise you get undeveloped and disabled chicks and you don't want that.

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The veins themselves are not absorbed but the blood inside is. However you are very right about the bleeding out part.

Thanks Dan for your kind comments and you are most welcome. They actually are very friendly, I find it helps too if there is ever an emergency, they will trust you - unlike our neighbours' mother ducks - I still have the scars... just joking and all the very best, Sue

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Hi there and thank you for your lovely kind words, they are appreciated. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi there and thanks for your lovely comments, they are appreciated. Me too! There are some wonderful ways in which we can learn so much from her. I also never cease to be amazed at what hens can do - I'm about to edit a film 'Co-parenting' but you might be interested in this article which I never made into a film: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2015/11/chicks-in-cold-weather-finding-some.html#.W4AcUxqYOkB it shows the amazing intuitive kindness of mother hens. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi Andrea and thank you so much for your lovely comments, they are appreciated, All the very best from a sunny afternoon in Normandie, Sue

@@Pavlovafowl You're so welcome. Greetings from the U.S.!

goatgirl61 Thanks for your kind comments!! I just felt so sorry for that duckling but was so happy he had been able to make that initial hole and could keep telling me he was OK! The shell coming off was a real problem because I knew he need to be kept dampened down but didn't want him to get cold. One time before my neighbour's duck deserted leaving just two unhatched eggs in the nest and we hatched them in the oven because we had no broody. Luckily we'd had the woodstove lit for breakfast and it was just at a nice 'mother duck' temperature! All the very best, Sue

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Thank you for that, it is a lovely observation. I absolutely hate it when I lose a bird for whatever reason. One of the saddest sights in bird keeping is an egg that has a chick but doesn't hatch, it is so sad. All the very best from Normandie, love Sue xx

Hi there, that was a lovely comment and a great description of the ducklings' life with a hen. Our friend had a mother hen who used to run up and down the riverbank calling her ducklings to come out of the water. It is the one thing that makes them mad, having disobedient 'chicks' and of course you are right, she is worried they will drown. I hope you will follow in your grandmother's footsteps and raise poultry too! I have a photograph of my great grandmother with her hen and baby chicks, so I think it is in the blood. All the very best from Normandie, Pavlovafowl aka Sue

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HaHa Exactly was about to comment. Hens getting mad at their "chicklings" swimming. LoL

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Thank-you for your comments, they are appreciated! Absolutely, you have to be so careful because of the blood supply vessels, which you always see vestiges of when the chick has finally emerged and how close they are to the outer shell! Once many years ago, I saw our biology teacher do just that and the chick bled to death in front of our eyes, something you don't forget. As the duckling has already made a hole in the shell it is using its lungs and can already breathe, so there is no need to hurry anything. I prefer to let the duckling do things at its own pace even to the point of kicking of the final piece of shell, only that way am I certain everything has sealed off and there is no risk. All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue

Can't pip without Mummy's warmth and the usual heavy moisture from a Mother duck, Pearl can provide the warmth but there is no way I want to get her that wet. Mother ducks usually swim just before hatch and I've seen them dripping wet on the nest, so a piece of tissue works fine. This is not an ideal situation but my intent is to save these ducklings in the best way I can without too much stress to my hen or them. If you take away anything from this video it should be that when humans intervene, i.e. put two nesting ducks so close to each other that they get confused as to which mother has hatched what - then expect a disaster and try to get out of it as well as you can - it's not the ducks' fault! All the very best, Sue

Hi there, in a really funny and ironic way it is a mark of the success of a video when it gets so many dislikes, Once a video hits a certain number of views, it will always attract the attention of those who love to press the dislike button, unfortunately along with that you can also get some really unpleasant comments too but you can ban those people. I just feel so sorry for the children on KZfaq who must be so happy to have created a really successful video, usually of their favourite fluffy, lovable, pet and then are subject to the barrage of 'dislikers' I think that is really hard. Our society sadly engenders people with a propensity to dislike and frankly hurt others but then it also has great people like yourself who so make up for it! Thanks for your kind words, they are appreciated and very best wishes from Normandie, Sue

+CommiGamer861 Hi there, That is most interesting. On certain occasions, they are rare but the male will take over the nest if the female dies, it can even happen with chickens if the hen has formed a couple with a specific rooster, as ours often do. I know a friend of ours who hatched ducks with a hen had exactly the same attitude when the ducklings went in the water, she would run up and down the bank crying for them to come back in. Luckily your grandma was organised to save the ducklings, you can not always be sure a hen will take to other chicks, I usually like to plan which hen to have as a mother, in this case it was a last minute thing. In fact I had several broodies available, luckily but Pearl was the star. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

@@Pavlovafowl I know this is super old- but my grandparents own a rooster who's a bit of a nanny hen himself. One clutch of chicks was orphaned after the hen was taken by a coyote, and the other two the hens were simply tired of looking after the much older chicks so they gave them the boot. This rooter took all 3 clutches under his wing (literally) and raised them up. He didn't lose a single chick and was quite the protective papa. The coyote problem at their farm has gotten way worse- to the point that they're down to 3 hens and 4 roosters from a flock of nearly sixty but the nanny rooster is still kickin.

@@dormiaria8780 Hi there, this comment thread may be old but it is still read! Your grandparents experience is quite rare although I have heard of it before, mostly though it is when a bonded pair of birds, so a rooster and hen that are actually bring the chicks up together, (this in itself is rare) and the hen dies. I've even heard of one occasion when a hen was sitting eggs and was taken by a predator and the rooster then sat and hatched the eggs. In my experience of keeping hens and roosters in a forest garden, they do pair off, as did/do their wild relatives the Junglefowl. I have a film here which shows one of my Polish roosters and the father of a chick keeping the chick warm at night: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zr-JibeJ3cXVnJc.html (at 0.41). My contention is that the way in which the majority of humans bring up poultry creates problems for them because within the birds' nature and heritage there is the provision for both parents to take care of the chicks. Your grandparents must have the trust and well being of their poultry very much at heart because this rooster was allowed to express his natural instincts and care of the abandoned chicks. If this happens again you should try and film it or at least write it up because it is an all too rare experience and it makes people think that maybe preconceptions about roosters being aggressive or profligate about chicks and hens are more of our own making, which is so important! Re predators: my sister has a similar problem (lynx, wild cats, mink and foxes) on the moors in Scotland but she recently got a flock dog, which is specially trained to guard free-ranging chickens. He actually turned up at an animal shelter as the owners of the farm where he was raised had died - he is a lovely creature, a Blue Merle Collie but there are other breeds that are either inherent flock dogs or can be specially trained - you might want to pass this on to your grandparents. All the best from France and thank you so much for your input - it is of great interest to me and I'm sure others who read the comments! Sue

@@Pavlovafowl I should talk to them, but the problem is their guard dog now likes to eat chickens. he's great with all other animals and children, but just poultry rings the dinner bell in Bear's head (their German Shepherd's name) so he can't be a flock guardian. I didn't know it was that rare since they've always had some kind of Nanny bird around :) I wish I had my old cell phone because I had pictures of him surrounded by part of his brood there.

***** Awww Christiane, Thanks! It was a great experience. That hen is so pretty - I had to think up a special name for her colouring, she is almost a Pékin/Cochin - just the tail is not quite fluffy enough! Gros bisous de la baie de Mont Saint Michel - 27 deg aujourd'hui et les hirondelles sont déjà arrivées!!! Sue et Andy xxx

Hi Danial, Thank you so much for your lovely comment, it is truly appreciated! Sending you best wishes from Normandie to Pakistan, Sue

Dziękuję bardzo za Twoje cudowne komentarze - dopiero co je znalazłem - więc przepraszam za spóźnienie się z podziękowaniem za nie! Przesyłając najlepsze życzenia i „Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku” z Normandii, Sue

Thanks! Wait until you see the quail chick video - just uploading now. I agree though - I love ducks too! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi there and thank you for those lovely comments! I looked up your book and read a synopsis of the story - I will find it on line and do it full justice and read the whole text. Thank you for making me aware of this gem! I had another great comment recently from someone who was given a gosling, a duck and a turkey as pets and as they all grew up together they obviously thought they were all one and the same, an interesting hybrid rather like your storybook bird!. To this end when the duck and goose went in the water, so did the turkey poult...and I never knew this, even though we had turkeys on our farm...turkeys can swim really well! I'm so happy my video brought back fond memories for you and hope you enjoy more of my films as I produce them. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi Irene, that is such a wonderful story, I really enjoyed it and your closing remarks are priceless! One of our reasons for moving is to have ducks and water - I've been looking into 'duckponics', have you come across this? It is an enclosed, cleaning system for duck ponds, where you run the water through a gravel type filter garden bed, much the same as a grey water system for a house. The ducks also get to eat the vegetation and the water, once filtered, is fed back into the pond. It sounds pretty good! I love Khaki Campbells and Indian Runners but there are so many others too I would love to raise. Hope you get some more soon and all the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue

@@Pavlovafowl Can't say I've heard of that Sue, but now you've told me I would defo look into it when I keep ducks again (this will happen!). Anything that helps keep things clean is a bonus because there is ongoing work involved. In my experience any especially water-loving ducks given access to water will turn lush area of lawn into mud, and they will dabble and dance in it and sometimes lay their eggs in awkward places. Ours were penned in about 200 sq ft overnight, with an additional 400 sq ft to roam during the day: within their pen they destroyed ALL vegetation. Fwiw, within their pen they were all quite happy nesting in a large second-hand dog kennel that we got on Gumtree for £40 :-)

Aaww thank-you for that lovely comment, it is appreciated. Birds are such wonderful creatures, helping them in any way is a privilege. All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue xx

Aaww that is so kind, a lovely comment and very much appreciated. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

That's a lovely comment Ruth! Thank you so much. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi there, that is such a lovely comment, we really appreciate it! Good Luck with your baby ducks and hope you will film them! I subbed your channel, so I'll get notification! All the very best from Normandie, Sue and Andy

Aaww thanks that is so kind and very much appreciated. All the very best from a sunny afternoon in Normandie, Sue

Thank you so much for your lovely comments, they are so appreciated! Best wishes from Normandie, Sue

Hi there and thank you - I think so too! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi Brenda thanks so much for your comments, they are appreciated. A good hen will hatch anything, they are amazing mothers - you might like to read this story about Pearl's sister - I never made it into a film but it reveals a lot about chickens as parents: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2015/11/chicks-in-cold-weather-finding-some.html#.XOf1ex0v6V5 All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi Laurina the more good caring people in the World the better it will become. Thank you for your lovely comments, they are appreciated. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi Trude, Thank you for such a beautiful comment - you really made my day! All the very bets form Normandie, Sue

Thank you Susan! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi Eva and thank you for your lovely comment and also for the advice. It is always best to add eggs or chicks of whatever kind in the dark. Pearl however is pretty much a perfect broody hen, she will accept everything. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi Chrys, Ducks do make good mothers, it is just these two mother ducks got so confused because they were both in the same coop and both due to hatch their eggs on the same day. This is not a thing ducks do normally, they really seem to like their own space. I am amazed the two mothers got on so well and accepted all the ducklings after we took them back! However you are right Pearl the Cochin is a fantastic mother. Thanks for your lovely comments, they are appreciated and all the best from rainy Normandie, Pavlovafowl aka Sue

Pavlovafowl - Organic Forest Garden Poultry Thank you so much for your lovely and very informative reply. You are doing such a great job and even though it is demanding, it must be very rewarding to work in the nature.

Aaww , that is such a lovely comment! You absolutely made my day! Yes we are all fine and enjoying life in the forest garden! All the very best to you from Normandie, Sue xx

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Welcome Frieda and thank you for your lovely comment! My grandfather emigrated to New Zealand in a cattle boat before the first World War. He did eventually return but he never stopped telling us about how much he loved his time out there. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Thank-you so much for your lovely comments and well done you for your duck rescue too! I would really like to have ducks of my own and hope we will be able to move to place with more land and finally get some this year! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

my starling i rescued a Bird a new born ther was 3 but 1 escaped and one feel in the pool and died and 1 was luky so i called him lucky

Oh how true! The problem is once you've had one hatch of chicks/ducks/quail you just have to repeat the experience each year - or Spring isn't Spring! Well that's my excuse anyway! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Alisa, thanks for your comments they are appreciated. All the very best, Sue

She is a star! All the very best, Sue

Hi Tracy, I know, I too love seeing birds hatch out - it isn't Spring without that! All the very best from Normandie and thanks for your comment, it is appreciated, Sue

Aaww what a kind comment! All the very best, Sue

Thank you John for expressing that, it is one of my favourites too. I am so looking forward to getting my own ducks some day, hopefully with the next twelve months but in the meantime I re-watch it too! All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

شكرًا لك على تعليقاتك - إنها موضع تقدير ولكن آسف لقد استغرق الأمر وقتًا طويلاً للرد! التعليقات ضاعت بطريقة ما! مع أطيب التمنيات من فرنسا ، Sue

Hi Sarah and thank you so much for those lovely comments - I do appreciate them! It never ceases to amaze me how easily hens accept others types of chicks. I've raised quail with them for years and they instinctively seem to know how they need to be so careful with them and much faster and up to speed than with them than hen chicks. What really startled me with Pearl that at one point her voice even became duck-like! I always think we can learn so much from the birds! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

@@Pavlovafowl That's an amazing observation! I agree very much. I have a couple of chicks that I hatched in the incubator & they haven't been around other chickens yet. I noticed that they mimic the songs of the wild birds they hear every morning outside the window! They sound more like baby Robin's than baby chickens!

Hi there Dan, Thanks and yes the hens are so good at doing this, they instinctively are very caring. You might be interested in this little Cochin who looked after some chicks that were in a big hatch and were being left behind in the garden: holistic-hen.blogspot.fr/2015/11/chicks-in-cold-weather-finding-some.html#.WwwGGRqYOkB She worked out a strategy to help them all on her own! All the very best, Sue

Me too! I think it is one of the most beautiful sounds. I do have a film dedicated to conversations between mothers and chicks of all kinds if you are interested: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idyiqpaTxJbUYYU.html All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

Aaww what a great comment, thank you so much! All the very best, Sue

Hi there and thank you for your input, it is much appreciated. I just always err on the side of extreme caution in these cases. As I mentioned to others, as a child I witnessed a teacher try to help out a chick by pulling at the membrane of an egg and the chick bled to death in front of us - that sort of thing one never forgets. Plus in this case there was already a hole in the egg, the duckling was breathing well and I just took it slowly and let him do the work at his own pace. He was also very much stuck to the membrane, so I didn't want him tearing any skin or pulling out any feathers, so I knew that at his own pace he would feel if he was doing that and stop until he was dampened down enough for the membrane to peel off freely. All the very best and congratulations on saving your babies - shrink-wrapped is a great description!!! Sue

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Thank you Christine! I am the World's worst with zippers, I inherited the trait from my father and sleeping bags are a big nightmare for me so I could really empathise with this little duckling! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Thank you so much for your comments - they are very much appreciated! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

She is! In film part 3 she gets an orphaned baby pigeon, which is really demanding and for which she is a brilliant Mother. I would have loved for her to keep all the ducklings but I think my neighbour would have had something to say. The Mother ducks accepted the whole load of them back, even though the last 3 were hatched many days later - see Part 2 & 3 of this film. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Aaww thanks! I really appreciate you taking time to comment. In future and starting from next week, I will be putting out a new video every Thursday. I already uploaded one for this week. All the very best from Normandie, Pavlovafowl aka Sue

Just to let you know I was not able to get a video out today as Andy has injured his back and I am doing all the work. Hopefully though there will be another video before the week end. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

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Hi there, it just goes to show how adaptable both birds are - what about the water element? All the very best, Sue

Hi Sanddox, You are welcome and thanks for commenting. All the very best, Sue

Hi there and thanks so much for your comments, I appreciate them. I have a mix of all kinds of old rare breeds of chickens and over many years they have created these interesting colours and patterns. I love it when we have new chicks hatching, as it is always a mystery to see how they will turn out and it can sometimes take over a year for the whole final colour and patterns to emerge, particularly with the Frizzles. All the very best from sunny Normandie, Pavlovafowl aka Sue

That is a lovely story and thank you so much for sharing it. We can learn so much from birds about love and care, sadly something we humans are often not that great at expressing or acknowledging thanks for. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Oh how true! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Aaww that is such a lovely comment. I send all three of you a big hug from Normandie, Sue xx

bassethoundmarco Awww Thanks!!! It is so kind of you to write that. It was a great experience, I love seeing chicks hatch and it was so easy with such great hens. I actually had four broody hens at the start, as there were just so many large eggs for such little hens but two of the hens just went crazy when they saw the duck eggs and there was no way they would sit them. Pearl ended up with so many but I made the nest very deep in the hay and she managed to cover them all. It was her first ever hatch, as she is only a year old but she is a star and such a natural mother. All the very best, Sue

Pavlovafowl it's funny you say that because a very similar experience happened to me when i lived in my casale maremmano (country house) in tuscany, Italy... I was about to go on a long trip to America during summertime (about a month...), and exactly the week before our departure I found out that one of my ducks was broody, and she was laying on 12 eggs! so before i ever went on any trip i used to bring my farm animals to our neighbours, and when i moved the nest with the broody duck, she decided to just abandon all of those eggs, so my dear neighbour distributed those eggs to 2 broody turkeys, and by the time i was back from the trip i had 12 beautiful white ducklings ! ahah I love animals so much... I hope one day I'll be living in such a beautiful place like where you live! cheers

bassethoundmarco What a great story, thanks for sharing! That was really inspired to get turkeys to sit the duck eggs - it would have made a great film! It's just so lucky we have so many broody hens - I've got 12 at the moment! I've found with hens that moving them when sitting usually goes fine but it can take 24 hours for a hen to remember you've moved the nest. However, ducks are quite different, in particular these of our neighbours, they are not tame, in fact although they are 'domesticated' they are in fact really still wild ducks. Tuscany is a beautiful area too, I hope some day you will get another country place. We lived in cities for some of our life and would never go back! All the very best, Sue

Pavlovafowl thank you so much =) and I definitely will return to the country as soon as possible,.. but at the moment I am only 17 years old, so unfortunately I have to go to university... however, as soon as I am done with it, I will start planning to find a beautiful meadow, such as yours, where I can build my house and happily raise a farm and my future family =) cheers!

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Hi Paul, this is quite normal. Any time you produce a video that gets 'popular' your film becomes a magnet for the 'dislikes'. What is worse is, that you start to get what sometimes can be some pretty obnoxious comments. I used to reply to these but realised it was a waste of time, now I just block the users and delete the comments. One of our other sites 'Organikmechanic' on KZfaq has a video with over 5 million views we had to hold the comments for review on that once it reached a few hundred thousand views. I think it is just a phenomenon you either live with or leave KZfaq and as the ad revenue has really shrunk over the past years - I'm guessing the more it goes on and the worse it gets, people will leave. KZfaq is a way a lot of self-sufficient home-based people share what they do and as a consequence, make a bit of cash but there is a limit to how much you can put up with. I see no reason for a dislike button - if you don't press the 'like' you either don't think it worthy, can't be bothered or don't like it - for me that's enough. Thanks for your concern, it is positive support like yours that keeps us going and in general I have to say that we are very lucky to have some great followers on KZfaq, All the very best, Sue

The world is full of bully and that's the problem, I guess it's a fashion now for adult to behave like cruel teenagers. Now in those days is hard to deal with people and not to argue. Very wonderful vid I feel sad why people give dislikes , to something so lovely.

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I did dislike it. The reason? You're not allowing that animal to struggle to come out the way it should be. Any struggle makes it stronger. This seems unnatural.

@@Pavlovafowl It is the problem with the internet overall. Too much temptation to a certain immature or disturbed mind. More or less anonymous forum with lots of people watching. What could go wrong?

Aaww thanks Vicky thanks for your lovely comment! All the very best, Sue

Hi Sue ! It has been a true delite watching this , really ! When I didn't own any chickens I always had the idea many people still have today ( unfurtunately ) , yet that has changed . My image from a chicken back in time was simply that they didn't move much and ran away , so interest in a chicken as pets in my backyard ? no , I did not even see the sweethearts ! just like any other human being that doesn't know how a chicken CAN be in fact , my image since I got my very first one ? I bought two Rhode Island Red hens , youngsters from about 6 months during wintertime so they were close to laying eggs , yet had to wait because they keep a winterstop , one of them suddenly started screaming and I was like uhm ? what is going on with that one ? and oowww that one is really soooooooooooo sweet towards me , she looks as if she wants to cuddle haha ,what a silly idea I get from her ... Now guess what that adorable chicken did ? she laid her head down on my shoulder when I was cleaning out the feeding dishes :D , so the other one ? screaming one ? she had laid her very first egg :-)) , ever since that day ? my image of a chicken : individuals like human beings with a very strong memory ( stronger than humans !!! ) and they are either truely cuddle birds or they do not want you to lift them up and are more on their own , they are smart and they can experience LOVE , in their way but they do ! same applies for ducks ! I so wished I could have a couple of ducks here but my BC is too small and in Belgium it is not really approved to have the wild ducks ( protected animals ) , all the love in the world to you and your birds Sue ! sweet regards out of Belgium !!! Xoxo !

Hi there ! You must have got a lovely view out there ! :D I'm owning at this point the Old English Games but these are very much ' wild birds ' , they are living in trees :) and they lay bio eggs haha because they simply know what to do , if you feed them , fine , if you don't even better because they like to find their own stuff and they are exellent in it ! A lot of people only want the birds to get some small breeds with their breeds but if it is for that only I have to decline because they are more than meatbirds and I'm having the suspicion they are close to extinction too !!! put them for sale and nobody knows what breed you're talking about :( , but they are lovely , we are havin one hen that just is so desperate to get chicks ! she sits on every pile of eggs she can find in the woods ! only two chicks have been born but question is how come they died ... Now in my backyard I use to keep all kinds of breeds and all of them showed so much of personality ! they are all stolen ! just to think in your mind " who does such things and wherefor ? " even my adorable rooster got stolen but now I am waiting untill neighbours let me know their chickens are safe and the thief has not returned and after that I 'm buying myself these : Rhode Island Red , adorable adorable fluffy buts called Marans and some precious nice cuddly buff orpingtons :-) , that also includes the roosters because in their character they were so adorable , my rooster from the Marans cuddled all the time ! the roosters always get treated so differently but not in here ! they are equal ! and I swear you get much of love back from them if treated like that , my roo definitely deserved hughs and his girls ! Nice to read you have liked it in Belgium ! So Sue , I'm keeping up with you anyway , and uhm keep posting this adorable stuff ! :)) lots of love out of Belgium from me and my girl , my lovely husband and our lonely hen " Auberry '' :)

Hi Sam - because it's a feel-good video and this World needs a more fluffy element to it! Seriously though thanks for watching and for your great comment. All the very best Sue

Aww that is such a lovely comment and I so appreciate it! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Hi Alex, Thank you for your kind comment - much appreciated. All the very best from a rather cloudy Normandie, Pavlovafowl aka Sue

Hi there and I totally agree! They are bantam Cochin aka Pekin. They are amazing birds and the story of how they got to the West from ancient China, where only the emperor was allowed to raise them is fascinating. If you are interested I wrote it up here: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-cochin-craze-story-of-addiction.html#.X4HLYHcv6V5 and the film is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hc2fg5mayZuXfH0.html All the very best from Normandie and hope you get some Cochins of your own! Sue

@@Pavlovafowl Thank you for telling me, I'll look them up!!