Arizona Chickens

[MagicChicken]

"Girlfriend" the Delaware Hen was singing the song this morning for the first time but I didn't find an egg anywhere. Will they sing without laying?

I suspect what people call an "egg song" is really a flock contact call. Even my rooster will give it once in a while when he's trying to locate one or more of the hens.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I do not think it is the same song. There is a slight difference. When at my friends in MO my camper was close to the coop and run. I picked up on a vocabulary of clucks, chirps, and very loud to soft noises. The eggs song is diffenitly an anounsment song, wareas the where are you is a little lower down in, I think pitch, can be heard at longer distances. I do not know the terms used in music.

Some of you are very heavily into music and have a good ear, when you watch chicken theater, lesson as if it is chicken opera. Volume, speed (tempo?), deep or high (soprano or baritone), and soft and hard clucking. I can tell the warning "danger over head! Get to cover" call, I have a goodie call by rooster or mother hen, mother hen, come here call , I laid an egg call. And I was trying to figure out the other ones. A musician would have an easer time at it. This is the result of too much time, and is fun. A free range flock sounds different, they are quieter and softer, survivel of not attracting predictors. When crowded pens I can't tell any one from another, I get the feeling they are all just complaining. We all know the angry get away from me growel, or squak of a broody. At the Fair I Heard from individuals the displeasure Screech

When near to the cage. Clearly few chickens wanted to be there. The Silkies were the quietest. The Roosters! Well we know they have a lot to say with so many girls and competition around.

I think, but not to that point yet, that the older girls have the best chicken pronunciation, Paul's girls are over 2, with only 3 pullets. I need a great deal more time, and maybe some of those high Tec stuff the use when working with sounds.

It is a good pointless "study" the government gives grants to researchers that need to do research. You could spend a lots of tax $$$$$$ and months to yrs of time on. You also would need chickens living in all kinds of conditions. That is what a group of us should do! The best composer writes a convincing proposal, we convenes a researcher at ASU to join us (making it legit), quite our day jobs and study chicken language. Of course we would have to travel to France, Italy, and other places, to verify that the language is the same. After all the French chicken may speak French Chicken and not understand the English chicken.

{lodgings in France}

 

[Papas Chickens]

Im having issues with my girls, i let them out of there coop to free range and when it is time to go back in they dont want too. Anyone know a good way to make them want to go back into the coop at night?

 

[mom-to-5]

Im having issues with my girls, i let them out of there coop to free range and when it is time to go back in they dont want too. Anyone know a good way to make them want to go back into the coop at night? 

Mealworms work wonders when I want to get my chickens back to the coop before it's dark. They all usually go in on their own but if I'm leaving before dark and want them in before I leave...mealworms to the rescue!

 

[kacklinkelly]

Im having issues with my girls, i let them out of there coop to free range and when it is time to go back in they dont want too. Anyone know a good way to make them want to go back into the coop at night?

Black oil sunflower seeds does the trick for my girls. They haven't taken to meal worms. Basically, use any treat they love. Keep 'em a "little" hungry and they will follow your lead anywhere

It's pretty funny to watch their routine. Mine have a particular order when they go into the coop at night. My easter egger seems to be the guard. After the girls are inside, she walks around the chicken tractor a few times, makes a few little noises and then joins her sisters inside. I enjoy watching these little creatures so much.

 

[cyborg]

Im having issues with my girls, i let them out of there coop to free range and when it is time to go back in they dont want too. Anyone know a good way to make them want to go back into the coop at night? 

Are you waiting long enough? (Dusk). Keep the waterers and feeders in the coop.

ROOSTER TRAINING

I have 2 roosters of breeding age, one Black Copper Marans, and one Wheaten Ameraucana. The BCM is king of the hill, and will chase the AM away whenever he feels macho, keeping the AM away from the hens and the food, or just chasing him for the h*ll of it. Naturally, this gets all the other chickens stirred up. I discovered this morning while out in the run, if I just point my finger at the rowdy one, he freezes in his tracks. Is that cool or what?

Went out for a little greenhouse maintenance after the morning feed, (the best fertilizer is your footsteps!), and collected about a dozen and a half large, fat hornworms, and two sphinx moths (adult hornworms). I occasionally find them on my tobacco, chilis, or tomatoes, but they seem to prefer eggplants over all others. Either way, the chickens dearly love a little animal protein!

 

[Buddycat]

Im having issues with my girls, i let them out of there coop to free range and when it is time to go back in they dont want too. Anyone know a good way to make them want to go back into the coop at night? 

At night I put out black oil sunflower seeds in several places in the back yard by the coop. I also put a little uncooked rice in one spot. Whatever they don't eat the birds get the next day. They will usually hang around in the back til it starts getting dark then they just head to the coop, where I've also put out a little rice & sunflower seeds. If I have to leave during the day just shaking the rice cup will usually bring them all running & they follow me into the coop where I give them their treat.

 

[City farm]

Oh MY! I eat a lot of strange foods, some an acquired tast. By dear brother is pulling one on me... To make it worst, in this part of the country it is not a strange food. We are having it to marrow night! Ludefisk

Pray for me. I am afraid, but I will eat it. I can't believe he likes it......... Really!
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How did you like it?

 

[City farm]

I have one but I am a bit far away. 
I even have a Styrofoam one you could borrow if you could get it.

I think I got it figured out. I was in a hurry to get them in, so I turned it up to high.. Hope they will be okay.. I don't know what I was thinking, I know better..
Thank you so much..

 

[City farm]

Im having issues with my girls, i let them out of there coop to free range and when it is time to go back in they dont want too. Anyone know a good way to make them want to go back into the coop at night? 

Are you trying to get them back in before dark? Do they find another place to sleep outside the coop? All together or just a few? What time do you let them out? I remember at first the little stinkers would not come out.. Now they actually fly out, only a few.. The jungle fowl can fly.. Put some treats in their coop, I call them with, "bugs, bugs, bugs, & treat, treat, treat" they come running.. They also love our cat food..
Will you post up your photo you posted on " what is this chicken thinking"