CHICKEN SOUNDS

Do hens walk around just clucking away??? I was watching a BBC show the other night and some chickens were just roaming about and there was this chicken sounds playing - clearly it was an added recording. But it got me to thinking .... are they very vocal, constant chatter kind of behavior. I think it would be so fun to hear the girls just chatting away every time I go out back or have my back home windows open

Are they very social animals?

Here's a cool link with audio & "translations":
http://modernhomesteading.ca/blog/our-first-chickens/chicken-calls-and-vocalizations

The reason I started looking into this (besides general curiosity), was that yesterday, one of my RIR's was standing stock still, very erect, and making a long, loud high-pitched trill. It was so unusual that I went over to the coop to check -- it seemed to me that there must be something very, very wrong (maybe a snake?). Anyway, I didn't see anything. Has anyone heard/seen this behavior? Bummer...it is not included in the recordings in the above link.

Those recording s are pretty cool.

I have heard my roo making that long trill....have no idea why, decided I didn't need to know why cause most the time I couldn't figure it out, I just laugh at their sounds now....the first time they all sounded off the egg song I went tearing out of the house into the coop wondering WTH is killing my chickens!?!?!?!?

I'm wondering if one of my hens is . . shall we say "confused?" I have two dark brahma hens -- Tillie & Hilary. Tillie, as far as I can tell, is fairly quiet about laying her eggs. But Hilary sings at the top of her lungs when TILLIE is in the nesting box. And, what I find even stranger is that, Hilary doesn't really seem to sing when she herself is in the nesting box. She does sing after she's left the box and struts around screaming out her song. So, is Hilary just kind of weird for singing when Tillie is on the nest?

I also read a little about that cooing sound. Tillie is like a puppy, following me around. For some odd reason, she likes to walk between my feet, or sit right between them when I'm standing still. But, she always seems to have this low, content cooing going on when she's following me around. Hilary, on the other hand, is always looking at me somewhat accusingly, and will actually growl at me if she wants something. Sugar and Salt, or Sweet and Sour, these two girls are. Neither is mean, though, thank goodness.

One of mine, Tessa, sings loudly when Tina is in the next box. I think she wants Tina to get out of there; or maybe because our roo stands in front of the box guarding Tina, and Tessa wants some attention?