Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[GregnLety]

I am convinced they can recognize genders and identify different humans.

I believe that too as Cholo actually growls when I approach him but clucks and dances for Lety.

 

[no fly zone]

I am convinced they can recognize genders and identify different humans.

Absolutely. I am the only one that Skeksis will allow to pick up and hold. She will sometimes let my wife hold her, but only for a very short time. When my MIL visited here for the first time, she went to pick up Skeksis, and the bird ran off squawking like she wanted to turn her into a two piece combo meal.

 

[Molpet]

I am convinced they can recognize genders and identify different humans.

Ha my cousin came over to look at my first birds with chicks and poults. Everyone screamed stranger danger and ran.

 

[ManueB]

So they can identify a person who regularly brings food, a stranger, a husband from his wife, and a mother in law . And they have preferences (often food based).
Then again, that should not surprise us, as most domestic animals can.
I'm not surprised they could recognize the sound of a specific truck. I think they have keen hearing as they rely a lot on sounds to communicate.

I think they are sensitive to gender, or maybe to some stereotypical male and female attitudes. When we had the builders and my stepfather over in May, everyday we had coffee after lunch together outside, so that there was four loud men making loud rude jokes. From the very first day, Théo came over to the table and crowed to hell for all the time we had coffee, and he repeated that every day for the whole month.
He doesn't act like that with any of our usual guests, so we joked with my partner that he was entering the testosterone competition.

Another thing that I've really wondered about is the hen's incredible ability to find where the other hens have laid before her, even if they haven't seen anything and the eggs and nests are out of sight. I wonder if they can smell eggs, or if they use some other sense to achieve this ?

 

[BDutch]

So they can identify a person who regularly brings food, a stranger, a husband from his wife, and a mother in law . And they have preferences (often food based).
Then again, that should not surprise us, as most domestic animals can.
I'm not surprised they could recognize the sound of a specific truck. I think they have keen hearing as they rely a lot on sounds to communicate.

I think they are sensitive to gender, or maybe to some stereotypical male and female attitudes. When we had the builders and my stepfather over in May, everyday we had coffee after lunch together outside, so that there was four loud men making loud rude jokes. From the very first day, Théo came over to the table and crowed to hell for all the time we had coffee, and he repeated that every day for the whole month.
He doesn't act like that with any of our usual guests, so we joked with my partner that he was entering the testosterone competition.

Another thing that I've really wondered about is the hen's incredible ability to find where the other hens have laid before her, even if they haven't seen anything and the eggs and nests are out of sight. I wonder if they can smell eggs, or if they use some other sense to achieve this ?

Chickens do ‘talk’ to each other. There was a research with somekind of bird (I forgot the species, but not chickens) and the researchers could distinct a set of sounds , that were meaningful. And the birds repeted these too.

Chickens make sounds that are meaningful to the other chickens. And chickens tend to cooperate. So they probably, simply know whats going on.

There are articles written by chicken keepers who clain that certain sounds belong to certain chicken behaviour. Like the hen clucking after laying an egg. Not to tell she laid an egg, but to call the other chickens. This way she knows where the flock is, or at least in which direction she has to go to accompany them.

I was witnessing an extraordinary conversation between my Ini mini snd the other chickens once. I try to find the story I wrote. For me this made it certain that chickens communicate with chicken sounds.

 

[BDutch]

I found it.
In the thread: Welcome ye who dare to cluck
The story of Ini mini

 

[Sequel]

I found it.
In the thread: Welcome ye who dare to cluck
The story of Ini mini

That is a great story!

 

[MaryJanet]

In the Netherlands we use the word gender for how someone feels. Male or female. We use the word sexe to distinguish male and female according the (hidden) genitalia.

Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish sexes (when dressed). But it’s impossible to say what gender a person is if you don’t know this person very well.

It seems that a lot of people are not happy with the registration of the sexe in official documents and now there is a discussion about changing sexe to gender and let people choose how they want to be named. Others say, abandon this completely from all official documents. Just like they did with eye color and hair color.

Optional would be good too. I would want to identify officially as a woman to enable researchers to improve outcomes for future women.

 

[MaryJanet]

I found it.
In the thread: Welcome ye who dare to cluck
The story of Ini mini

Such a great story BDutch.

 

[RoyalChick]

I found it.
In the thread: Welcome ye who dare to cluck
The story of Ini mini

Great story! She obviously had a lot to tell them!