Odd noises coming from my 6 week old pullets & 9 week old cockerel?

[rumbleBee_STi]

Today my husband & I had our young flock in the chicken run, hanging out. We were sitting in some beach chairs watching everybody run around
& do their thing. We have 13 chicks in all including the cockerel. It was later in the evening & random wild birds were flying around & going to the feeders we have set up for them. Suddenly everything went quiet & the whole flock started looking around & quickly came running to the corner & started huddling together, not moving a muscle or making a peep.... except for this odd fluttering noises going on between a few of the different chicks. Is this a warning noise between them all? They continued this little gathering & noise for about 10 minutes Before we brought them all back inside.

 

[Chickinie]

Yes. Its is the noise that they make when they see something to watch out for. The mothers usually do it and the chicks RUN FOR COVER. Then older, the chicks do it a lot between themselves.

 

[aart]

Sounds more like just the trilling they do when in a puppy pile rather than an alarm call.

 

[LaFleche]

This is the sound of well-being. I hear this special trilling whenever they feel very comfortable.

 

[aart]

This is the sound of well-being. I hear this special trilling whenever they feel very comfortable.

Yes, when I hear this as they hunker down for the night, I call it 'bedtime stories'.
Maybe in this instance it's them saying "did you see that scary thing?"

 

[rumbleBee_STi]

So maybe this sound can mean different things depending on what’s going on in that moment? This is my first time raising chickens & my mind is blown, I never knew how smart & alert they are. they are just so sweet, each one having their own personality.

This leghorn always jumps up onto my husbands leg.

Hei Hei

 

[Chickinie]

I think you'll find the snuggling noise is more drawn out single notes repeated that go from a lower to a higher pitch, more like long peeps. Whereas the danger noise is rapid succession of notes that that go from lower to higher, and then more higher ones. It's the same as when a broody hen sees you hand coming! It's what roosters do to warn the flock of what they see too.

... Yes I use to watch chicken for hours...

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

I call the trilling I hear when they see something scary the uh oh trill. I call the trill my cockerel makes when he wants something to get away from his hens the rooster growl, and I call the one they make when they want to sleep the bed time trill.

 

[janiedoe]

I played your video for my chickens.
They seemed to think everything is ok.

 

[K0k0shka]

That is definitely the "shut up and go to sleep" sound It's the sound I miss the most from the days when I had my brooder in the house next to my bedroom. I loved sitting next to it before going to bed and listening to the chicks put each other to sleep with this sound. They tend to do it whenever one of them is disturbing the others' sleep - when they're all huddled and comfy but somebody is getting up, shifting position, chirping, stepping on others etc. - the rest make this sound to get the culprit to sit its butt down and go to sleep already That's why I call it the "shut up and go to sleep" sound. If all of them are down and quiet, they don't make this sound. In this case here, some of the chicks are still walking around, so the rest probably want them to lay down and stop messing up their afternoon nap.