the girls will be talking about that all day. nice coop and run set up.

@evawikoff

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. It just kept expanding!

@younesuchiha5520

3 жыл бұрын

i thought you were talking about THE chickens lol

@farmwife7944

3 жыл бұрын

younes uchiha I was!

2:09 Grey lady’s monitoring the situation..

@uzayrmalik4625

3 жыл бұрын

She is lookimg for her chick

@ashlol5700

3 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking she might be head of the flock

@NACAFarm

3 жыл бұрын

@@uzayrmalik4625 yes, she is. I think she hid them

@christophercasanas386

3 жыл бұрын

@Augustine Amos shut up

I love your setup!! This is why it's so important to have a roof over your run!!

@evawikoff

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That run just kept expanding! Only part of it has a roof, but the unroofed part has the welded wire fencing over it. It's kept out racoons, foxes, and hawks! The hawk wouldn't have gotten even that close a few months earlier because I had an outer run that had aviary netting over it and they didn't get through that either. Thanks for the compliment!

Great capture, those chickens are very smart they ran for their inside coop.

@evawikoff

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I can’t really take credit because that camera is on 24/7..

@eom2967

4 жыл бұрын

@Hammerschlägen M A little smarter than you sir.

@Kingcrook-yn9eh

3 жыл бұрын

The baby ran outside the coop area if you look

@hahagagagaga4710

3 жыл бұрын

Hammerschlägen M you are stupid buddy chickens are way smarter than you think 💭 if you think lol 😂😂

I really never knew chickens would run immediately to hide in their house. I thought they would just flap around their area driving themselves nuts. They're smarter than I thought.

@sharoncourt75

3 жыл бұрын

I lost 1 hen and to a cat, now if i leave i lock them, the other day i had a quick store errand, less then 10 minutos, i have a gues driveway i never use my self in the other side of the fence and coop, I park there to see quick if they where ok, i observe, they saw the car and silently all gather up and went in a line inside their little house lol, i felt so bad they where scare but dint make a sound ran i side their little safe zone

@saraa.s5555

Жыл бұрын

It's mostly flipping a coin. If one of them gets it into its head to run for the coop the rest will follow but sometimes they do just flap around. I've had both situations with my chicks in even measure

@peterclarke7240

Жыл бұрын

A bit like humans, then. We're terrible at self-preservation during sudden emergencies. 😂

Didn't anyone notice, the small bantam hen nearest to the lawn was trying to fight the hawk and defend her chick ?

@leemobaia

5 жыл бұрын

yes. i noticed. she was trying to distract the hawk. so her chicks will have time to hide themselfs. she is one brave mother hen.

@evawikoff

5 жыл бұрын

Mother hens are fierce!

@gabe-po9yi

4 жыл бұрын

Ralte Fren She also saw the hawk before it swooped and stayed there to defend her baby.

@rigelsmmm5405

4 жыл бұрын

I saw it

@ytho268

3 жыл бұрын

Rigels Mmm what part

1:40 - You're welcome!

@ibrahimmoncada2710

5 жыл бұрын

you saved me about 3:10 minutes of my life :)

@kb2390

5 жыл бұрын

I read this after lol

@ramirosierra7103

5 жыл бұрын

Man,I should of read this message first,I couldn’t see the hawk..

@matthewsharp6597

5 жыл бұрын

Adam I. Thank you.

@lenbrian9484

4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

1:30 warned by other birdies ..something is up

It's funny how the chickens know that this small bird is a deadly predator.

@handledav

4 жыл бұрын

Chickens are smart If there was a rooster it would of fended off the hawk

@eom2967

4 жыл бұрын

@Hammerschlägen M Chickens are pretty smart. They have robust and vast abilities that are comparable to a human toddler. Chickens have sophisticated sensory abilities. Chickens have a complex nervous system, and are sensitive to pain, pressure, and temperature, just like humans and mammals

@eom2967

4 жыл бұрын

@Hammerschlägen M kzread.info/dash/bejne/pa6llJiRecWeZto.html

@eom2967

4 жыл бұрын

@Hammerschlägen M yup real tasty

@huckleberryhuffman2822

3 жыл бұрын

@@handledav Idk where this notion of a rooster fighting off hawks comes from. Hawks are apex predators they've hit their pray most times before it ever knows its been got, if it hadn't been for the chicken wire that bantam or one of her chicks would have been gone. I homestead 5 acres and we free range all of our birds but our small turkeys and bantams right now. I have two roosters that run with the girls a very big black and white Maran and a game rooster mix, I've lost several small poults to a young hawk within the last month.

I am getting comments about wasted time watching this video. The purpose is to show the behavior and warning signs of the impending attack. The backyard bird calls, the silence, and the hens reactions including the ones protecting their chicks... this is not a graphic video. All the chickens are safely enclosed in a predator-proof run. As I say in the description "If you are impatient skip to 1:39. "

@sudhindrasuvarna2756

3 жыл бұрын

NVM you are not hear to please everyone , gd vdo .

@montagusappling3076

3 жыл бұрын

Somebody's gonna complain regardless...

1:40 starts the evacuation mode into the coop

Best hen house I've seen.

They are smart chickens, they knows to hide in the safe place.

@evawikoff

5 жыл бұрын

Our run is predator proof unless it’s a bear. We have foxes who patrol and the hens are not in the outer run when they are prowling. I lost several to foxes 2 years ago..

@justsomerandomchickenwithi2012

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony Mercado foxes usally take like 5 I have seen it happen to my friend he had about 7 chickens it stole 6 of em

@namenamenamenamenamename1213

3 жыл бұрын

@@evawikoff hello can I ask my chicken keeps making weird sounds and it feels like she's jealous and had always had an open mouth and breaths from it like she's always thirty I closed Ina cage with water but when she drank it she kept looking thirsty can you help me in any way?

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

@@namenamenamenamenamename1213 I couldn't advise you, but Backyardchickens.com is an excellent resource. Here is a link to page that may help you. Good luck! www.backyardchickens.com/threads/excessive-thirst.837126/

@boom6702

3 жыл бұрын

@@namenamenamenamenamename1213 that happened to me, with three of my chickens, but i just seperated them from the flock in a small cage and in two days they were fixed maybe they got worn out or aomething like that.

Did anyone notice the chicken that was suposibly On guard, it was the first to go inside without making a noise

@evawikoff

4 жыл бұрын

lol! I had to watch to see which hen it was! That is one of my Cream Crested Legbars. Funny to try to figure out which one is which because I haven't had them since the spring. She wasn't "on guard" just watching... she also isn't one of the "loud" hens. I had a couple that were notoriously noisy and enjoyed making announcements of any kind. I wish that the tape was a bit longer so that you could hear the start of the chattering from the songbirds. That was when the hens started to pay attention. Then again someone already complained that it was too long!

@michellebehr7669

3 жыл бұрын

It was just checking to make sure the coop was safe for everyone else ;)

What a bunch of chickens

@azinegg

2 жыл бұрын

😁

I love the bold chicken comes back out of the coop at 2:07 to continue to scream at the chicken hawk!

@rhino2960

Жыл бұрын

shes calling the babies, she was on lookout and babysitting duty, all the rest of the girls scrambled, she went into attack mode, straight at the hawk neck all poofed up

They got such a fright! It was funny poor things. Very nice large coop, I heartily approve of the luxury 5-star accommodations!

This is why you need a rooster ! A rooster will give his life to defend for his hens ! Rooster has the utmost important job that is overlook by chicken owners .... sad but true !

@hellacat

4 жыл бұрын

My chickens got attacked today. We only noticed because our rooster ran way over to where we were outside....far away from their coop area( they free range). We were like...where are all your girls?? He abandoned them! Lol. But...maybe he was trying to get our attention.

@TheBooban

4 жыл бұрын

hellacat yeah, he came to you rather than somewhere else. What attacked them?

@Cam-es1or

3 жыл бұрын

I had chickens when I was a child the rooster was huge and super vicious, he would definitely attempt to take on a fox. I hand raised him since he was a chick and I was the only one he didn't go for.

@jasonnikolic

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly you are not allowed to own roosters in many places, just chickens.

@davidmiles9076

3 жыл бұрын

Very true but not always reliable, roosters are amazing but a hen of mine had still been taken even with roo supervision

I like your coop set-up. We've let our chickens free range for over 20 years and I've considered keeping them locked up and your coop gives me a good idea.

@evawikoff

2 жыл бұрын

Our coop and run has evolved from one of those really small tractor supply coops which was very temporary... my husband built them a run that was 8 x 8 x 8 that was screened in hardware cloth. The coop itself became a repurposed Resin shed that was outside the run... then the run expanded some more... and the external daytime run was added... then we sold the flock... and started over and had to build a new coop! It's a work in progress.

What a nice, cozy and safe place for chickens! It was so relaxing to watch them hanging out, better then watching fishes in an aquarium. And how amazingly quick they run for shelter, first under the table and than in the coop! Hawk-alarm seems to be deeply engraved in hen's DNA. After the last pullet went back in the coop I somehow expected a small wing reaching out and slam the tiny door of the coop shut. But of course, they had to leave it open because the tiny chick was still out there. ;) I hope the little one made it to safety too.

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

All safe and sound! I have an ChickenGuard automatic door on the actual coop, but the door to the run was closed, so there was no way the hawk could have gotten them! Glad you like the set up. I'm always changing things. We have a brand new coop that is under construction - needs a few finishing touches. I'll post a video one of these days!

Mother hens are awesome and will protect there babies at all cost! I have a momma hen that was free ranging with her babies and a hawk swooped down and went after her babies and the momma jumped up and tried to attack the hawk the babies ran to safety and luckily I saw and ran with the broom I was ready to whack that hawk but the momma hen scared him away, hawk never came back! Momma hen's (and roosters) are the best! Loved the video!

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

Momma hens are amazing! Hens are amazing? Chickens??? I'm fascinated by how they know what to do when they are hatched in an incubator and have no adult hens to watch. They still figure out nestboxes, and when they are broody they turn their eggs, and then they mother! It is incredible! Wish I could have roos!

Those chickens are smart,They knew that the first thing to do in a hawk attack is RUN into the coop and hide

2:00 I guess the late sleeper sticks his head out to see why everyone ran inside. Or he said. Don’t worry I’ll protect you ladies. “O shit those talons look sharp. Maybe not “

If you heard them screaming it’s so horrifying ,They are so overwhelmed

Such smart ladies!! Happy they were okay! I love your setup

Eva -- thanks so much for the fantastic video. We had hens on the farm, and then I had a few hens when I had sufficient space when living in West and Central Africa. My only regret about videos is that there is no marvelous farm smell. Miss it more than you can imagine. All the best to you and your family, Lynn in Albuquerque

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

Lynn, Thank you for commenting! I was without chickens for a year - this video is from my last flock! I restarted my flock over the summer - I understand how you miss it! All the best, Eva

Our worse year ever. Someone we know went on the internet to buy hen's for us to raise for eggs and meat. 50/50 split. Ended up being Small hen's. The seller swore all were Hens. 5 were roasters . Buyer beware. We have day predators, hawks, huge black birds and even foxes I've seen in my yard in the morning and afternoon. If you don't get a chicken that will naturally go to the coop it becomes a nightmare. Flying up into trees. I live near water. I have weasels, not about the food but about the hunt. Then the fox, the opossum, the raccoon, snakes, I only have a acre and half of land, live in the city. But I do live on the water, low tide nothing but mud. I had no idea of so many predators. Been living here for 20 years. Like I said this is the worst loosing so many of our chickens. We only have two chickens left. Going to take a break. Up side is that people that walk and jog by our house make positive comments. I tell them we don't have chickens. We have miniature poop machines. 🙂 It still hurts knowing that a predator would inflict such much pain .

The run is very well protected, but the alert was interesting. A beautiful design of run and beautiful chickens.

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! We may have gone overboard just a bit, but the size makes it easy for me to work with them. I do love my girls!

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

They have to be strong!!! They're mothers!

So how many chickens did you catch? Hawk: No

@blank7008

3 жыл бұрын

Chicken: *t h a n k y o u*

“I do say, the AUDACITY of some fowl!”

Ginger: Listen. We'll either die free chickens or we die trying. Babs: Are those the only choices?

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

lol!!!!!

Came from the girl who does the Hawk alarm to hear the real deal!

WOW! those chickens are wiser than what I thought they are running to hided into the chicken coop to save their life

I never thought they would be evacuating *in line.* These are smart chickens!

Watchdog says! Hawk coming let's go!😆

They noises they make are so funny 😂

2:07 and this my friend is your nosy neighbor that will engage you in conversation when she noticed you have a new car.

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

hahaha! I had to find that spot to check it out!

I say,i say that's a chicken hawk!

Lol! Haven’t had any Roos since 2017. 🙁 I got chickens approved in our township. But no roosters’

@muffintop420

3 жыл бұрын

Where did the little chick go after the attack? Under the hay bale?

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

@@muffintop420 yes! As long as they are all inside the protected run, the hawk can't get to them!

Lol when they all got inside and all just start crying like “Jesus Christ! It almost got Juan! 😭I hate this place!”

@onesunnyday5699

3 жыл бұрын

🤣😂🤣😂

1:40 escape the great escape

Wow! Whoever built that coop and run did a great job!

@evawikoff

2 жыл бұрын

That would be my husband... the guy who didn't want chickens in the first place. Then the tiny run wasn't big enough, so he built a walk in run around the tiny coop... then he built a bigger coop and expanded the run twice... and put a window inside the coop at ground level so they could look out when it was snowy. Then there was a roof over part of the run... btw, there is an additional exterior run now :)🤣

@kennedy7848

Жыл бұрын

It’s beautiful! I would love to live as a chicken in that coop

@evawikoff

Жыл бұрын

@@kennedy7848 😂😂😂

Hawk: Damn force fields around those city chickens!

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

The force is always with my chickens!

Omg I love that this is a *nest* cam! 😂🤣

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't it great???

It doesn't take much, to set them off🤣

Skip to 1:42

2:08 neat haired woman with a cup of tea in her hand ☕: "wha... wha.. what just happened? is that hawk?"

I used to have a lot chickens, whenever a hawk or a eagle flies above, they always have call alert to warm other children’s to take cover. I don’t understand any chicken language but that’s the only one that chickens will always alert other chickens

@rosesmith6208

3 жыл бұрын

my chickens do a quick bakk and then a low trill sound that there is a predator skyward. I learned that just by watching them several hours a day.

My WiFi: You shall not look at dis moment... Me wanting to see it: BOY- I wanna see this all my chickens from like 3 years ago got eaten by a Predator and only one serviced it I was sad and crying but I got more like a week after but sadly I had to give them away but I can’t always see them ;-; I miss them

THANKYOU FOR MASTERING THE GOD REALM OF COMFORT PEACE AND SECURITY...YOU HAVE SET A STANDARD HOW RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE SHOULD LOVE THEIR PETS..YOUR FLEET OF CHICKS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND I AM SO THANKFUL PEOPLE LIKE YOU OWN THEM...🛡️🛡️🛡️💎

What a bunch of chickens! LoL

Ahaha they are so funny/smart and then one chicken came out briefly to see if it’s still around. 😅

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

I have to say, I was kind of hoping the hawk would do a Looney Tunes style "splat" into the wire fence 😂

@evawikoff

Жыл бұрын

Gotta admit that I may have one of those clips somewhere! 🤣🤣🤣

@peterclarke7240

Жыл бұрын

@@evawikoff Please upload it! I wish no ill-will on hawks, but slapstick is slapstick!

@evawikoff

Жыл бұрын

@@peterclarke7240 I will start looking!

Wow! That’s actually a good chicken run. Great capture at the right time as well.

this happened last week... a hawk dove into my neighbors chicken coop and busted a hole in the netting to keep animals out... thank god none of the chickens were hurt...

@evawikoff

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that! My run and all the windows in the coop had hardare cloth to keep it predator proof. Netting doesn't work- Hardware cloth is close to foolproof but pricey. I used to have 7"wire fencing outside the run mounted on metal tposts that included another 40X30 feet, I had aviary netting over that, and never had problems with anything breaking through the netting... I did have a hawk fly through a gap over the gate, who then got stuck for a couple of minutes under the aviary netting. There was planty of stuff for the hens to hid under if they didn't make it into the run! I lost hens to hawks in the begining until I got determined to keep them out and still let the chickens out for play time!

That one brave mom must be having a child came back to clear her doubts.

Hawk: I bet they taste like chicken. Oh ya, of course.

That made my heart jump. I lost my prize Black Australorp cockerel to a hawk attack a couple weeks ago. Next day I kept everyone in and the hawk was trying to get them still.

@pinheadlarry1977

5 жыл бұрын

A week ago our flock went from 9 hens to 2 after a coyote attack

@lakeandtrailresale

5 жыл бұрын

@@pinheadlarry1977 oh no that is so sad! If you were near me I could help you out. I just put some of for rehoming. I had a late hatch in October

@pinheadlarry1977

5 жыл бұрын

@@lakeandtrailresale thank but we've decided to give our 2 hens to a friend and not get any more chickens

@lewisevans4655

5 жыл бұрын

A few months ago the fox took 6 of our chickens and one of them was my prize wining Golden Sebright

@lakeandtrailresale

5 жыл бұрын

@@lewisevans4655 oh no!!! That is aweful!!

That chicken that witness the attack close up was first to enter inside lol 1:42

Omg so do chickens also do the “egg song” when they feel threatened? Bc I know my chicken she does that when ever she is trying to lay an egg and I lift up the nesting box cover

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

She is only telling you that she is laying an egg! You are not a threat to her!

I love how they are very human like, they go inside to get cover and for saftey, like we go under the bunker when there is some kind of a bomb attack. Lol For some reasons, it felt very human like, especially the cool chicken at the end that didn't seem all that affected, too cool to act scared, so she walks gracefully to get to saftey.

This chicken coup is impressive. Good job.

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! The video is from 2018, and we have built a new coop, but the run is the same!

2:08 Grey Chicken: "YOU GO ON HOME YOU SOM'MA BITCH!!!"

They were very lucky and fast to run to theirs house, thanks for sharing

I would have to say that Chickens are really smart birds

I was very focused on it and boom a hawk came there!! OMG

@evawikoff

4 жыл бұрын

I love having a camera in the run! You see the most incredible things!

Starts at 1:42

All these chicken was like f**k that I'm going home.

Those are some fat chickens!! lol They would give that hawk "what for"!!

What a nice pen set up!!

@evawikoff

4 жыл бұрын

Courtney BesserThank you!

There was a Congressional debate in the 'House' after the incident, but I can't figure out speakers of one party from the other.

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

These chickens must be like It's 138800 Prepare the breach !!!! Shots are fired

It wasn't unsuccessful, it looks like he got the little baby.

@isxrecord

3 жыл бұрын

if you go frame by frame, the chick goes into safety on the left side

@tnyplays1385

3 жыл бұрын

The chick actually went under a board and took cover

That is a dream coop! The chickens must be happy!

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

They are very spoiled!

The moving bucket !

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

The bucket is a nipple waterer! keeps the water clean :)

Which one is the rooster? The last one in, I hope.

@sundance81677

3 жыл бұрын

I think she said in another comment she doesn’t/can’t have a rooster. So it was probably the head hen. The most dominant hen if you will.

@gabe-po9yi

3 жыл бұрын

Life of a Bibliophile Oh, okay, thanks.

I love how 4 of the hens were already on alert. The mother hen run towards the hawk, while the others flee. I also think as the mother, she is the current leader of the flock since there are no roosters. You need at least 1 Rooster for this set of hens.

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

I used to have roosters, but they are not legal here... I miss them!

@angelserenade

3 жыл бұрын

@@evawikoff wait its illegal to own a rooster?

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

@@angelserenade It has to do with the zoning... noise ordinance! When I started out you couldn't have even 1 chicken unless you were on 6 acres! I filed for a variance and the township now allows 4 hens on 1/4 acre as long as the coop placement meets certain requirements. But no roosters :(

Nice run!

If you listen carefully those chics together saying one word F****R

After the attack and they were all in the hen house one hen came back out like she was fussing at the hawk, lol! 2:03

@TheCross4All

4 жыл бұрын

@ROIDO Yeah, they went hiding and i think she was alerting them to stay put too.

@marvelclips5385

4 жыл бұрын

She came out to see her chicks. She even tried to fight hawk when it suddenly attacked.

U have a nice chicken setup. Ur chickens are very lucky!

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

That one that walked fast out prior knew something was up

What a bunch of chickens! 🐔

2 :07- we are under attack hooman

Congrats and goodluck im your new subcriber

2:07 they put the poor guy on lookout

Around 1min 40seconds is when the 🐂💩 pops off

Watching the chick fil a sandwiches run across the den scares me 😂😂😂😂

Great work

they have such a lovely setup

@evawikoff

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

The attack is at 1:40

Great video 👍👍 now let's surprised the Hawk with electric fence 😅😅

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!!! We gave one, but never set it up!

@zualteazualtea9900

3 жыл бұрын

@@evawikoff wow😀 such a kind hearted too😙

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

@@zualteazualtea9900 Not kind hearted, I just have to connect the solar charger unit and that involves grounding it, and I haven't figured it out... lol!

It’s like a school lockdown

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

DANK master 64 hahaha! You are so right!

I really like your Chicken's run. I want to build Chicken's run and house like yours.

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! My husband built the run and then extended it so my girls would have more room! The coop at that time was a Suncast shed that we bought to use as a coop. It worked great, but I now have a coop that we built. Videos sometime in the future! 2x4s and hardware cloth!

Little chickens 🐥,where they go 🦅

A bit disappointing that was it just looked like a fly by, still it gave the chickens something to cluck about they never stopped .

Wish I could give my hens a set up like that...

@evawikoff

3 жыл бұрын

That was the run with the old coop. New coop: share.icloud.com/photos/0d0zMKPm4aaZc-AC2R7LzxsJg

What a cozy cage

This year is the first time we have had a known HAWK kill. We have made Crow decoys that have so far helped

The hawk 'attack' happens for a few seconds at 1:42.