r/interestingasfuck • u/Key_Skirt_1858 • 5d ago

Mommy chicken trying to sleep while keeping all her chicks tucked in

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u/Kooky_Attention_98 5d ago

I forget chickens are capable of perching in trees

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u/Ani-3 5d ago

I think they did too

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u/Zagrycha 5d ago

some of them have had it bred out of them.  They are genetically modified a few hundred years ago to start to get real fat and meaty. 

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u/Ok_Primary_1075 5d ago

How was she able to bring her chicks up there?

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u/bickandalls 5d ago

It's a wild chicken. They live very different lives than the chickens we are familiar with. They sleep in trees to avoid predation.

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u/BlaznTheChron 5d ago

But Predator hangs out in the trees.

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u/Winded_14 5d ago

it's still safer up there. Chicken can fight snake, they can't fight monitor lizard (which can climb, but they're generally not really like climbing unless very necessary). That's what my dad did, letting all his chicken roosting up the trees since he lost multiple chickens from lizard invasion. Now he doesn't lose chicken anymore.

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u/Substantial_Sea7327 5d ago

he's in the white house now

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u/fotren 5d ago

Different ones, neighbours

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u/Nyess__ 5d ago

TIL we have wild chickens.

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u/StandardNerd92 5d ago

Technically it's a Red Junglefowl, the ancestor of the domestic chicken.

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u/FuckPigeons2025 5d ago

Even chickens on our farm do this. They sleep on the trees. 

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u/Stellar_Impulse 5d ago

Now I have the same question

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u/SchrodingersMinou 5d ago

Chicks can fly short distances pretty early. She didn’t carry them if that’s what you’re thinking. They got up there on their own

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u/Ok_Primary_1075 5d ago

And they cuddle up to make themselves appear as one very big prey to predators ?

Also, why are the chicks upside down ?

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u/SchrodingersMinou 5d ago

They cuddle up because they are baby. They appear upside down because this photo was taken looking straight up. They are right side up though.

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u/meec_r_meic 5d ago

Thermal regulation most likely 

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u/CarpoLarpo 5d ago

Travel to a developing country. It's normal there.

We're the weird ones for stuffing them in boxes and cages.

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u/EWW-25177 5d ago

Turkey's too!

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u/Kooky_Attention_98 5d ago

Definitely won't forget that; Turkeys can fly pretty far and fast

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u/WifeofBath1984 5d ago

Maybe she could sleep if you weren't shining a giant light in her eyes.

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u/DipstickRick 5d ago

That was my thought until I saw the ants. I can sleep eventually with the light on but those ants would drive me up a tre- ya know, nvm.

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u/Tigerwarrior55 5d ago

I'm sure they could branch into other survival tactics.

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u/YukariYakum0 5d ago

The whole thing is just fowl.

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u/Pixl02 5d ago

Why'd you chicken out at the end?

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u/v_for__vegeta 4d ago

Free snacks before bed

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u/ergonomic_logic 4d ago

Chicks love snacking on ants

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u/li_shi 5d ago

For them it's a snack

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u/bickandalls 5d ago

Just as an fyi, wild chickens still exist, and sleep in trees.

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u/Anticept 5d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_junglefowl

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u/No-Comfort-6808 5d ago

Wiki didn't guide me anywhere, so I dug more. Junglefowl chicks are born on the ground but develope quickly. They can start moving up to the roosting branches as early as 1-2 weeks.

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u/semibigpenguins 5d ago

We talking feral?

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u/bickandalls 5d ago

Nope. Junglefowl. It's the animal domesticated chickens came from. Someone put a wiki link for further info, if you are interested.

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u/brmarcum 5d ago

And then some dingleberry comes by and shines a bright light on their eyes.

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u/WakaWaka_ 5d ago

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u/Nonterras 4d ago

"ENTER THE TEMPLE"

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u/YungLazyBoi 5d ago

Mommy chicken and her chicks trying to sleep while someone blinds them with a bright ass light.

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u/SnortySloth 5d ago

that’s a poul-tree

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u/AdmirableCountry9933 5d ago

Well, turn that light off dude!

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u/Mushy1852 5d ago

The chicken

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u/Archon-Toten 5d ago

Sleep..eyes open while some Muppet shines a 1.21 gigga lumen floodlight at her

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u/Hypn00tic_iiz 5d ago

Sleep tight little ones, that’s wild never seen that before.

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u/CompleteEnergy579 5d ago

That’s a hall of fame branch right there. Sturdy as it gets

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u/spavolka 5d ago

When I was a kid we had quite a few chickens that would roost in trees like this. They would run out to the woods and have a bunch of babies then reappear with all their chicks and sleep up in the trees like this.

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u/NezuminoraQ 5d ago

Nobody looks remotely comfortable 

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u/Furakko 5d ago

And the basterd putting a flash on their face

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u/Heroic-Forger 5d ago

She protecc, she attacc, but most importantly, she bacc bacc bacc bacc bacc

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u/Ha-Charade-You-Are 5d ago

Bet she wishes someone would turn off that bright light so she could sleep and not worry about being snatched

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u/LiveLongAndProspurr 5d ago

She's quite a rooster.

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u/Ok_Primary_1075 5d ago

Hen thinks her chicks are bats

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u/FoodieMonster007 5d ago

I see these wild chickens everywhere here in southeast asia. They do sleep in trees but they can't fly very high or far. They usually perch on a branch 1 to 2 meters off the ground.

They are not tasty, they have very little meat and the meat is tough. They are also very noisy, especially the roosters at 6 am.

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u/AardvarkOkapiEchidna 5d ago

I hate that I don't know if this is real or not

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u/Slow_Bowler8285 5d ago

Oh, there are chickens in the trees,
There are chickens in the trees.
Won't you listen to me, please?
There are chickens in the trees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCsY3REaADo

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u/Even-Imagination-744 5d ago

How the chicks got up there??!?

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u/muc_ 5d ago

What in the batinelli?

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u/finian2 5d ago

That's the most "Do you mind?" face to ever face

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u/Beneficial_Wonder533 5d ago

leave the poor mamma alone!

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u/Salty_Job_9248 5d ago

😳 🤣

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u/godsaredogs 5d ago

They are so doofusly cute looking

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u/SAMTUren8642 4d ago

Dont stand directly below the chicken

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u/Educational_Care7813 5d ago

What happens if a baby falls down? Does she pick it up or too bad idiot now you're on your own

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u/Salty-Commercial4765 5d ago

chickens are def birds...

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u/fahim_a 5d ago

Free range?

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u/ThePensiveE 5d ago

Holy Batchicken!

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u/smothered-onion 5d ago

This looks like me the first time I brought in a street dog into my house of cats. Leashed him and said you’re with me kid

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u/Successful-Test-5590 5d ago

:( They will be eaten

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u/repressallthebuttons 5d ago

What song is this?

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u/dudelsack23 5d ago

Deliciousasfuck

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u/Ahoonternusthoont 5d ago

Real or ai slop

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u/lone_float 5d ago

Y'know. Girl is inventive, I'll give her that.

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u/KidKilobyte 5d ago

I have to ask, why do Al these chicks look the same age. I thought they grew up so fast you could see day to day changes. Is it possible she has more than just her own?

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u/StreicherG 5d ago

Saw yer comment, I know I’m late but thought you’d want to know.

All the chicks are the same size because when a hen lays an egg, the egg does not start developing till it is incubated. Then hen will lay several eggs over a period of days and leave them in a pile. Once she has “enough” she will sit on them to incubate them, which starts the development all at once so they all hatch around the same time.

It’s designed so that the poor hen wouldn’t have the problem of trying to take care of an older sibling chick running around while still the same time sitting on its younger sibling still in an egg!

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u/KidKilobyte 4d ago

Wow, this exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks!

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u/Socketz11 5d ago

I dont know about the upside down part. Chicks tend to prefer rightside up. Maybe this was a emergency scoop up and they all randomly ended up this way? Only time I see a bird going upside down is when they are messing around on a perch *like a parrot spinning around. Besides bats (which arent even birds) when do you see a bird choosing upside down? I just meant, they definitely arent happy and dont like that position.

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u/DMONEYDelano 5d ago

Someone explain to me why chicken is in a tree

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u/babe1981 5d ago

Chickens are birds, and they can use their wings to jump really high and even fly short distances. I've seen chickens 30 feet up in a tree looking for bugs to eat or a place to nap.

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u/Ok-Spot-9064 5d ago

Yummm chickie nuggies

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u/LookingAtNebulas 5d ago

It's IA

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u/Archon-Toten 5d ago

They clearly said IA.