What does it mean when people say that the chicken 'talks'?

[SpottedCrow]

Slifer used to make a sound like a tea kettle boiling and her usual sound was HooHooHoo.
Obelisk says BikBikBik.
Penny said pikpikpikkk.
Jerry would make a growling gurgling noise.
Tom would sing.

 

[akd23237]

 

[Skyesrocket]

I had a little banty hen for years that was the biggest gossip and tattletale! She was always loose in the barn and would follow me as I would be doing the barn chores.
She would fly up on top of the gates to the different pens and just go on and on telling me all about what was going on in that pen over night.
She would tell on the pigs, horses, other chickens....she even talked to me about the cats.
Call me crazy, but the two of us would talk back and forth. I would talk to her and she would listen quietly...turning her head like she was focused on what I was asking her...then she would answer my question....in chicken talk...but she could get really animated about it. The more excited I would get about her replies that more excited she would get...lol.
That was my Ginger...I still miss her. She wasn't shy around other people either...she was always advising my farrier on the best way to trim the horses.
And because of the way she would talk to people...they would talk back to her...not sure what she was saying...but it was clear that she was waiting for an answer....you felt obligated to answer her. And she would always fly up onto something so she was face level with you.
She was quite a characture. A little golden phoenix hen. She was a loner, didn't care to be with the other chickens. But was a real person type chicken.

 

[akd23237]

What a cute hen! How did you understand her talking about pigs and such?

 

[chickenwoods]

Yall been drinking?

 

[Skyesrocket]

Not drinking anything. I can't be the only person that had a talking chicken?

During the winter if my granddaughter was out in the barn with me Ginger would squalk until my granddaughter picked her up and put her inside of her coat. It was a routine the two of them got into. Ginger would get impatient if Alexis didn't pick her up right away...lol.
I didn't know what she was talking about...but when she was standing on the cats feeding table watching them eat and talking up a storm I figured it was the cats she was talking about. Or if she was sitting on horse stall door I figured it was the horses we were discussing.
I went to a farm that a sign out for bunnies and chicks. This huge guy came out...big burly guy. He started showing me his animals and he had a "singing chicken" It was comical to watch...this great big guy with this little banty hen. He was singing Old McDonald...and when he got to the animals noises he would stop and the chicken would sing the animal noises. Of course...they all sounded like chickens....but the chicken would cluck every time he got to her part of the song!

 

[redhead83402]

That's as sweet as can be!!
We have a little silver-laced wyandotte ( named... dottie, of course :-D) whom we had to separate from the others, as she had gotten her tonail injured on something, and we didn't want any pecking to start up.

Anyway, she is also quite the people hen ~ she doesn't like to be around the others, and since she is separated out, she has remained indoors in the brooder while the others are all out in the tractor/coop. She will start up a righteous squawk if there isn't anyone in the room with her. Even if it's just one of the cats, she is fine, but SOME-one has to be there or she starts up. She also does this little churrr-uppy trill thingy when she is happily snuggled in the crook of someone's arm, which is quite often. She will run up and sit on your shoulder and snuggle into your hair, and I swear she starts singing. Like a tra-la-la laaaa. {:>)=
~Red

 

[S0rcy]

I totally hear my chickens talking. When they want our they are loud and demanding. When we put them back in they are offended, and at night when I check on them, they look at each other and make those contented sounds that I SWEAR sound like little ladies "oh this was a good day, oh yes I agree, wonderful grass out there, have enough to drink Peep? Oh yes the water is so nice and fresh now"