Chickens and music

[Chickassan]

Mine like Alice Cooper.

 

[achiekitty]

I sing Goodnight Irene (or Goodnight Chickens) to my girls every night.

 

[Nardo]

What about Beethoven? Do you play piano?

I play a (very) little guitar and mess around with the harmonica. My wife plays piano quite well. I always think that when I have spare time I want to learn the sax.

 

[Nardo]

Mine like Alice Cooper.

Why not? I am a solid classic rock fan, so when my cassettes run out (yes cassettes-my workshop is not up to date with tech) I switch over to classic rock (92.5 Lone Star). WRR 101.1 is solid classical. We have two others that I tune in, but their signal is weak: Jazz @ (KNTU 88.1) and R&B/blues @ KNON 89.3.

 

[Rondack]

I play a (very) little guitar and mess around with the harmonica. My wife plays piano quite well. I always think that when I have spare time I want to learn the sax.

I play some piano, I'm learning Chopin's Fantasie Impromtu.

 

[Acre4Me]

A few months ago I heard of a study done with plants and music. The plants reacted differently to each type of music: Rock: growing away from the speaker, Classical: growing towards the speaker.

I tried it with my favorite Aurocana Chicken. Whenever I play classical music the chicken sat calmly beside the speaker, when I played something more dissonant/loud/non-classical the chicken got more nervous.

Have any of you tried anything like this?

Sounds like a middle school science fair project to me (plant growth with music as variable). In fact I’ve judged a middle school science fair project that was more complex than that: humans shooting baskets (basketball) to 5 kinds of music - how accurate based on music type, and required lots of people to shoot baskets.

It would seem that to play music to chickens, you would need a pretty durable and dust resistant player or speakers.

 

[Rondack]

Sounds like a middle school science fair project to me (plant growth with music as variable). In fact I’ve judged a middle school science fair project that was more complex than that: humans shooting baskets (basketball) to 5 kinds of music - how accurate based on music type, and required lots of people to shoot baskets.

It would seem that to play music to chickens, you would need a pretty durable and dust resistant player or speakers.

Yes, you would.

 

[Bobby Basham]

We are one of about 50 24/7 Classical stations left in the country. The others are part-time with a bunch of commercial advertisements.

My babies had the station from day 1 unto this day, they're about 18 weeks old now. Some of that 20th century classical can get a little whacked out, but for the most part, our station is fine and choose that over hard rock any time. I think they may be able to handle some soft rock/country, something not too radical.

For many years, my weapon of choice has been this since I've been in the hard Gospel realm for many years...I have the same setup at home.

But, there's another part of me sitting in the living room collecting dust...and hope to get back into it.

I love the Classics, and have several thousand LP's (do people still play those) and hundreds of dollars worth of music scores. My hands are a little stiff now from playing those light organ keys all these years, but since I retired, hope to get back into the Classics and strengthen my hands again, maybe record some of my playing for the brats, even on a continuous 8-track or auto-reversing cassette or reel-to reel. I still have a bunch of recording equipment collecting dust right now.

It's possible to have a radio or whatever inside the house, and run speaker wires to the coop through some small pvc pipe, maybe buried and inch below the grass. My run isn't that far from the house, so the possibilities are endless.

I like old-school and still believe these old relics still have a place in our musical history...A lot of LP's were cut/remastered from the likes of these when this format was available...

I think that "not-in-your-face" background music is an ideal setting and could be a sort of subliminal distraction to the little buggers. I think a rooster crowed in response when a baritone/tenor was bellowing out something though LOL.

BB loves his old stuff, and those that can, keep the music rolling! I'm blessed to have all these formats.

 

[Bobby Basham]

I play some piano, I'm learning Chopin's Fantasie Impromtu.

I don't think any of his music is particularly easy, even the stuff he wrote at age 9, so I'm not a big fan of him, but have a lot of his music. I'll have to look at the Fantasie Impromptu...you're probably a lot better than you give yourself credit for to take on any of his music.

 

[Bobby Basham]

I'm mulling this over because on the weekends I work in my shop and play classical music or jazz. On the weekdays I'm at work and don't get to the shop much except to get something or set something down. But I'm halfway thinking that the chickens are more active and 'chipper' on the weekends but it could be because there's more activity going on around them. Or maybe they like Vivaldi.

I think the Italian/German/French/English baroque would be fine in that case.