Never in 43 years!!! Amazed!!!

[sourland]

Oh my goodness!!!

How the heck did she ever find that nest site?

I think the chicks will be bouncing off every branch on the way down.

My immediate thought upon seeing the video. Lucky the chick that manages to survive.

 

[ninafe]

And here I am contemplating whether my chicken could fly over our 6 feet tall fence into neighbor’s yard… I guess they do fly high huh. (First time owner here).

 

[Chickmagnent78]

How the heck did she ever find that nest site?

My immediate thought upon seeing the video. Lucky the chick that manages to survive.

I guess she wanted the penthouse.

 

[Chickmagnent78]

And here I am contemplating whether my chicken could fly over our 6 feet tall fence into neighbor’s yard… I guess they do fly high huh. (First time owner here).

I've always let mine free range so they really fly like birds

 

[Allsfairinloveandbugs]

That is an incredible video, and amazing that a broody hen would find and choose a squirrel nest 40 feet up in the sky. But same as some others have expressed, my first thought after watching was "That's not gonna end well for the chicks." I sincerely hope I'm wrong. You have yourself a A Very unique situation, that's for sure!

 

[Painted Calls]

I think the chicks will be bouncing off every branch on the way down.

I believe you're right.

 

[Chickmagnent78]

That is an incredible video, and amazing that a broody hen would find and choose a squirrel nest 40 feet up in the sky. But same as some others have expressed, my first thought after watching was "That's not gonna end well for the chicks." I sincerely hope I'm wrong. You have yourself a A Very unique situation, that's for sure!

I'm going to try and keep giving updates

 

[3KillerBs]

 

[NatJ]

I'm going to try and keep giving updates

I'll be watching to see what happens when (if) the chicks hatch.

I'm quite curious about whether they manage to get down safely. Chicks are quite fragile, so they can get hurt easily. But they are also quite light, so even if they fall all the way down, they might have a "soft" landing and be fine. I really don't know which is more likely.

 

[CRChicken]

Might she get them down the same way she got the eggs up? My hens roost in the apple trees which aren’t quite so high mine didn’t hatch her eggs that high up but she brought them into a 3 foot tall barrel and was able to get the eggs in and the chicks out?

I don’t know exactly how I assume just by jumping? And I guess she got the eggs in there under her wing? Could she bounce from branch to branch most of the way?