The Egg Song

[Sally PB]

What sounds like an escort call given a bit more urgently for lack of a better description is a general predator alert call. There may be something at ground level she doesn't know what is that she is alarming over it.

I've never heard "the egg song." Just an alarm call. If I hear it, I come running.

 

[SegiDream]

I like the theory that the egg song is to draw a predator's attention to the hen's location and away from the nest. Like a kill deer would. I think it is also why multiple hens will lay in the same nest area, if something happens to them another hen will raise their babies. While a rooster "escorting" a hen back might be part of the reason I don't think it is the sole explanation for the song.

 

[3KillerBs]

Is that girl the head hen?
Because it's not an "egg song". It's an escort call and she may be responding.

No, nobody pushes Dumpling around, but it seems to me that Cordon and Chipotle are vying for the top hen position.