Is there a list with the different sound s the hens make to communicate? I know that if I CLUUUUUUUUUUCK cluck cluck my pullets will scatter and hide. Sometimes at night one of them sings or sometimes I know that the translation goes something like Go to sleep owww your on my foot stop pushing who my warm spot until they all settle down is there a post about this somewhere?
I couldnt translate for you...sorry lol But I was was sitting on my back porch the other weekend having breakfast with my family and heard my hens just cawkin away. It was like a little converstation that they were having while sittin on the nest. Rrrrrrrrrrr rr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrr Cluck cluck rrrrr. For about 5 mins. My cousin boyfriend and I just stopped and look at each other in shock. It was the coolest thing! I think they were talkin smack about the rooster
Somewhere on BYC someone said their hens and roos would match up and not mate with anyone else, and when one of the hens was away from the flock and her favorite roo was not with her, she would "call" him, and no matter what he was doing, he would straighten up, mutter under his breath (like a MAN!" and go to her . . .so there is something really going on with their chatter and talk! Don't you love the idea of their being able to communicate. . .I am reading the book (when I don't have to skip over some horrid parts) "Poisoned Eggs, Poisoned Chickens" and she tells the story of how the chickens stay together and its sooooooo sad. If you want a read on what is REALLY going on in our confinement egg farms and butchering chicken plants, get it on Amazon.com, because it will make you THAT much more determined to get your own flock and as many more as you can.
