No egg song ☹️

[BDutch]

None of my three do. I figure this is the reason.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-egg-song-it's-not-about-the-egg-it's-an-escort-call
Very interesting article by Shadrach .



One night my husband heard a racket in the run. I ran down to investigate, and they were all "singing the song." And acting terrified, and looking at a spot in the nearby brush. I think it was a raccoon. The cockerel was very attentive too.

The link to Shadrach’s article doesn’t work.
(@Shadrach).

And as @rosemarythyme says I also presume the chickens didn’t do the the egg-song but sounded the alarm-call.

Chickens make a lot of different sounds / sound combinations to communicate with each other.

I was once really flabbergasted when I took my Inimini home after she fled (flew over three hedges) from a dog and accidentally trapped in a neighbor's yard.
When I got her home after 24 hours, she started "talking" to her "sisters". All the chickens gathered around her and listened. The chickens all answer her in exactly the same way. A reassuring sound-combination. I assumed they told her it was okay now.

 

[Sally PB]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...-not-about-the-egg-it’s-an-escort-call.74386/

 

[Sally PB]

Sorry; the above link should work. It's definitely worth reading.

 

[RebelEgger]

Update: our 3rd and final layer, Genevieve, has decided to be the singer of the group. She was singing the song yesterday before she laid her egg and my husband heard her do it today before she laid. He said he opened the coop door to see her stop and stare at him like ‘can I help you? You’re interrupting my process’ lol
she sounds so cute, I love it