Do your chickens talk to you?

[CrazyAnimalGirl]

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My roo that has a troubled crow is a serama (looks like OEG), poor thing is overcompensating!

Maybe it's a OEG/OEGB thing!

 

[CrazyAnimalGirl]

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OMG that's hilarious, I didnt think about putting on my records for them but maybe I will do that tomorrow with my tiny's in the brooder.
I'd like to see a video of that!!

 

[CrazyAnimalGirl]

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I know what you mean. I was talking up a storm to Lulu and didn't notice the neighbour standing on a ladder pruning his fruit trees looking at me strangley.

I laughed and said "Hi, I'm only talking to Lulu (he couldn't see her and I thought it would be worse if he thought I was talking to myself.)

We need a red faced embarrassed smiley.

I can only imagine, i'm almost crying laughing so hard thinking about what that neighbor must have been thinking!! Hopefully you were human talking.. chicken talking might have put the icing on the cake!

Thank god I only have one neighbor that occasionally comes out and doesn't bother me much. Otherwise i'd be in trouble!

 

[CatJane0x0]

My LB roo does....he'll come charging from across the yard if I pick up one of the girls and she cackles the slightest. I'll just start talking in a light voice towards him and he'll settle and start making odd little sounds. He sometimes will follow me afterwards and get up on my lap if I sit down. My turkey is second place at being talkative...goofy thing.

 

[annie3001]

ALL the time! we have special communication

 

[Tonopah Pati]

I thought every one talked to there chickens. I talk to my dogs and cat. My chickens know there names. The Roosters always stop by my bench and crow and fluff up. some of the hens talk. Tina talks all the time when she sees me, she follows me around the yard.

So I vote yes I talk to my chickens.

 

[trinityfly]

Before I retired my dear wife took care of the chickens. For years she said that the chickens told her stories, she talks to them. She said that they made complaints or demands and occasionally run up to her to and just start talking. She would say, "calm down, calm down" and then they would tell her a story. At the time I thought that the notion that the chickens were talking to her was a product of her romantic heart and left it at that. Now, I am retired and I take care of the birds. I was soooo wrong. They do talk and I am struggling to understand. Of course the rooster (Sarg) crows in the morning and sometimes during the day "Hey,Hey, pay attention", and his "look what I found" song. As for the 12 hens I believe I have their morning song down "time to get out", their danger-danger song "Lookout, run and hide", their egg laying squawk "I'm gonna lay and egg", and the general "Look,look, check this out you guys" song, (this Sarge's "look what I found song).

Gotta say, I try to talk back but seem never to have developed the language skill my wife has. When the last bunch were just chicks I would say "Chirp, Chirp" to them and they would respond. It seems that they outgrew my efforts after they laid their first egg. Now I just go "quack, quack". Pretty pathetic, but the birds seem to tolerate me. They look up at me, cock their heads, look at my face and probably end up by thinking, "poor idiot, he doesn't seem to be able to talk properly

SARG

SARG CROWING

ANOTHER BUSY DAYS FOR THE HENS

 

[sally4500]

When I do my special bawk-bawk-bawk-gak they all stop what they are doing and stare at me. My kids think it is hilarious because they only do it for me. When the kids bawk, the chickens ignore them. We wonder what it is I am saying to them in chicken language to make them stare so long. Hope they don't think it's "let's have chicken tonight for dinner!"

 

[noodleroo]

I talk to mine softly in a fairly high pitch. The pullets get on my lap and 'chest' under my chin in the evenings and sort of peep and purr. The roo usually sits on the top bar of the chair by my head and is different; he makes a kind of soft whistle in my ear but its low pitched, like a wood flute and very, very soft. Its really a pretty sound.

 

[biddyboo]

When our silkies are content and quietly occupied, scratching for grain and so on, they'll make a soft burbling trill, musical. When I duplicate that as best I can, they'll pop up their heads, cock them to the side, listen, and murmur right back. I love it ~G