Chicken clucking following egg laying (so called song) questions

[CanadaEh]

Maybe get some EEs? My EEs make little noise and no egg song.

do your EEs make that quiet "talking" when foraging? I love it in BRs!

 

[crunchymama11]

do your EEs make that quiet "talking" when foraging? I love it in BRs!

Yes! They cluck often but it's just so quiet. Or the dominate BR is just that loud

 

[ChickenCanoe]

My rooster crows just before dawn. My neighbors roosters begin crowing at about 3:30 a.m., non stop. any ideas why they would be doing this?

Something is waking them up early. Perhaps lights of a vehicle or the footsteps of an animal outside the coop. I loved waking to the sound of neighborhood roosters rather than an alarm clock in Costa Rica - but when there was a middle of the night thunderstorm, they would start crowing at whatever time it was.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

No, but he has a light pole in the yard that pretty much lights up the entire property.

There's your sign!!!

 

[TheBeardie]

all barred rocks

mine not making distress noises about anything in the sky. They make a quite "urrr" sound and either turn the heads watching it or run under the coop - depending how big or how close it is.

They make distress noises either when something really bad happening or some suspicious noise or visual that they can make up and freaking out - e.g. wind moving garbage bag. If I sit in a chair feeding them treats, than start moving my foot they would also freak out and start staring at it and clucking as well.

Every chicken is different. I have two separate flocks, one standard that's around two months old and the other is bantam that are around a year old.

The young standard flock are pretty chill with me, especially when I have food. Most will let me touch and pick them up. Only a few will sit on my lap and hang out with me. I think the fact I hatched them out myself is the reason they're so trusting of me.

In my bantam flock most of the OEGB are fine with touching, only the self blue hen really likes my company. The two porcelain d'uccles completely avoid me and the Black Tailed White Japanese Bantam is absolutely terrified of any human. All of them came from TSC.

I've only had one barred rock, big mama, she was second in command up until her Road island red sister, Red, passed away and she became the boss hen. She wasn't very noisy, only really making noise for a short period of time after laying an egg.

Don't you know how scary the garbage bag monster is?!

Noisy hens are just part of being a chicken parent! I like being able to hear my girls just in case something is happening.

 

[Hobbits Mommie]

There's your sign!!!

Where's the dislike button? I need my sleeeeeep!

 

[aart]

This is the answer to your first question.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-egg-song-it’s-not-about-the-egg-it’s-an-escort-call.74386/
It doesn't sound the same to a chicken.
They can tell the difference and so could you if you put the sound through a frequency analyzer.

Was thinking about this theory this morning as I cleaned the coop and a CCL pullet came into the coop and started sounding off, pacing the roosts and floor. Another pullet, already sitting in a nest when I entered coop, joined the chorus...they went on and on and on...Willie did not show up to escort them anywhere, he was outside eating scratch grains. Once I finished cleaning and left the coop, the CCL got into a nest and they both shut up.
I don't know why they say what they say....doesn't really matter...it does crack me up tho. Puts me in mind of the 'hen party' adage.

 

[Shadrach]

Was thinking about this theory this morning as I cleaned the coop and a CCL pullet came into the coop and started sounding off, pacing the roosts and floor. Another pullet, already sitting in a nest when I entered coop, joined the chorus...they went on and on and on...Willie did not show up to escort them anywhere, he was outside eating scratch grains. Once I finished cleaning and left the coop, the CCL got into a nest and they both shut up.
I don't know why they say what they say....doesn't really matter...it does crack me up tho. Puts me in mind of the 'hen party' adage.

That could be because there is nowhere to escort them to in a closed run.
It won't work for confined chickens aart. They know where everyone is!

 

[aart]

That could be because there is nowhere to escort them to in a closed run.
It won't work for confined chickens aart. They know where everyone is!

Then why do they vocalize at all?
They were talking about laying eggs, no boys needed

 

[Shadrach]

Then why do they vocalize at all?
They were talking about laying eggs, no boys needed

I believe it's instinctive.
If I could magic you here I could prove the theory to you beyond any reasonable doubt within a couple of days; well, maybe not right now because only one hen is laying.
Ask me again in the Spring and meanwhile save the air fare.