Chicken have language

[kano]

It's a fact that chickens have more than 30 vocalizations to comunicate betwen them. Some are exclusively made for hens, others roosts only, others both .Some hens phrases are:The egg song (Roosters do this also),the happy song (when they are satisfied, after eating, before lay),the broody Kluck,kluck the calling for chicks (food) the cry for help,(similar to the other cry to warn you,"get out of here, I'm broody"),and lot of others ....Roos have the "look out the sky", wich causes panic in the group, the after matig song, the before matig, the goog morning sunshine (or midday or afternoon or whatever..)the watch out dog there, the before figth words (and during .....)

 

[nuchickontheblock]

the first time we let our 3 pullets out to free range around the fenced back yard, one disappeared and we couldn't locate her over night although we looked everywhere for a long time. A

t 5:20 a.m. I hear her squawking and I ran out of the house to see her being chased by a large cat across the yard. After I yelled at the cat and it was gone, my girl spent about 10 straight minutes telling me the whole story. She was very upset and paced around and kept on clucking and bock bock bocking. You could almost understand everything she was saying. LOL.

 

[noodleroo]

I spoke 'chicken' as a child also. I remember doing the high trill that meant 'run to momma and be perfectly still' sometimes before the momma saw the hawk.

Even funnier; when my current babies were about 4 weeks old, I was in the backyard and heard one of them up in the tree - or so I thought. It was a Mockingbird! He was making perfect sounding chick peeps! I remembered to ask DH a few days later and he had heard it too. Scared the begeebers out of me....

 

[True Grit]

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[The Chicken Lady]

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I like the sound roosters make when they are excited about food. "Tk, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk..."