Weird question - do chickens learn to mimic words?

[BigBlueHen53]

A kid came knocking on my door a month or so ago, during turkey season anyway, to ask if he could hunt our property. I said yes and not to worry about our dogs, they're noisy but not biters. He said my dogs are his best helpers; when they bark the turkeys gobble, helping him to locate them. I don't know if the dogs and turkeys are communicating, or if the dogs irritate the gobblers and the turkeys are telling the dogs to shut up.

 

[Callender Girl]

Lately, my chicken, Dottie, and one of my cats have been "communicating." Each makes a kind of trilling sound, waits for the other to do the same, and then repeats whatever they're saying to each other, over and over again.

The dogs and I think they may be talking about us!

 

[saysfaa]

It is pretty clear to me that they imitate. When I go in the coop, I murmur to them; they murmur too. When dh goes in, he "bahk!!, bahk!!, bahk!!'s to them; they bahk!! too. It is very consistent and doesn't matter what time of day, what they were doing, or what we came to do.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I say "dut-dut-dut" When I want a hen to go down, sometimes they say "dut-dut-dut" back, but for all the years I have done that, they have all gone down for that.

I always call out, "Bab-ies" Then they know it is me and it is safe. and I just show up.

I have one hen I call "coco" a colubian wyandotte, she seems to always say "Coco." but most chickens say co-co alot.

I read some where chickens will say "Hawk-hawk-hawk" if they see a hawk. (chickens seem to like to say things in 3's. If I am in the yard and a crow flys by I say, "Hawk-hawk-hawk!" They all run to find a place to hide.

I say "Lok-lok-lok" if I have a treat, that is also what a rooster will say, and momma chickens say when they have food.

Trilling- "Wheeeeee" gentle and quiet is calming for them.

 

[MountainMomma359]

So funny that this post popped up, I was just wondering this. When I pick up Winnie I always say "who's my girllllll?" and I swear she always mimics the tones. After a while I even started saying more little things to her to see if she will mimic and she often does