Who here can speak chicken? Lol

[The Moonshiner]

i just talk like they understand me. Do they?

No

 

[No Coop No Problem]

When you spend enough time around chickens eventually you'll feel like the humans in Star Wars that can understand perfectly what the wookie is saying

 

[KoriAndBocboc]

I just learned that touching a birds back and petting their back and wings can have undesirable hormonal effects. I have been cuddling up and petting Bocboc since I got her. It's possible my actions has made her hormonal and that's why she is crying out to me and crowing. I'm sexually frustrating her. Lol. So I am stopping petting her anywhere besides her head and chest to try and avoid her back and wings. See if this helps to quiet her down.


Im still not convinced she's a he. Her brothers from the same hatch look much more roostery than she does. Time will tell.
At least she's not bothering my neighbors. I checked

 

[FrostRanger]

I just learned that touching a birds back and petting their back and wings can have undesirable hormonal effects. I have been cuddling up and petting Bocboc since I got her. It's possible my actions has made her hormonal and that's why she is crying out to me and crowing. I'm sexually frustrating her. Lol. So I am stopping petting her anywhere besides her head and chest to try and avoid her back and wings. See if this helps to quiet her down.


Im still not convinced she's a he. Her brothers from the same hatch look much more roostery than she does. Time will tell.
At least she's not bothering my neighbors. I checked

Petting a hen that's around laying age on her back can make her squat, it doesn't make them any louder. I have a flock of 7 that I do occasionally pet on their backs, they are no louder or quieter than usual afterwards. You can wait if you wish, but bocboc most definitely crowed in that recording. Based on that and visual appearances, the chances of bocboc being a pullet are close to zero

In any case, if it's the noise that's the potential issue, even if bocboc was a crowing female, there's still not anything you can do to stop the behavior. Chickens make noise and some birds are going to be louder than others (my head hen Basil is one such loudmouth and I can regularly pick Ginkgo's voice out from the rest of them) and there is nothing you can do about it, if anything birds get louder as they mature, cockerels will crow more and pullets will sing the egg song as they reach egg laying age

 

[gimmie birdies]

What is a hen?

 

[FrostRanger]

What is a hen?

A hen is an adult female chicken

 

[ChickenTenderKesha]

For those saying BocBoc is a male, I’m the one who hatched her out. I’m still convinced she’s a female based on all the other males in her hatch group presenting male specific feathering already.

They were hatched out a little before the end of October, have photos of the chicks with the hen out of the nest from October 21st and a video of her with chicks in the nest from the day before those photos. She’s 14 weeks old this Sunday/Monday and these are her brothers!

 

[FrostRanger]

For those saying BocBoc is a male, I’m the one who hatched her out. I’m still convinced she’s a female based on all the other males in her hatch group presenting male specific feathering already.

They were hatched out a little before the end of October, have photos of the chicks with the hen out of the nest from October 21st and a video of her with chicks in the nest from the day before those photos. She’s 14 weeks old this Sunday/Monday and these are her brothers!

Male specific feathering can take a while to come in and can show up earlier in some birds than others. Bocboc's pattern is still fairly uneven and that crow at that age pretty much seals the deal

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

Can anyone understand what hens are saying? I’m am serious. Not a joke. I have had my first flock one hen who came up to me every morning and inform me what had happened all night. I now have one hen who holds a conversation with me occasionally.i just talk like they understand me. Do they? Thanks

We have a chicken (Ash) who likes to have arguments with everybody lol. I dont think they can understand completely what we're saying, but i think they get the general gist of it if you spend enough time with them. Mine understand me when i say food, or tell a mean chicken to be nice. I've had multiple times where a chicken has tried to escape from their run and once i tell her to come back she did. I also talk like they understand me, and i've learnt what most chicken sounds mean, so i can hold a conversation with them quite easily!
Sorry for the length of this, lol, im just fascinated by chicken 'language'!
So to answer your question:
I can understand most of what they're saying, they probably understand more of what you’re saying from the tone of your voice than actual words, and your chickens sound adorable!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Male specific feathering can take a while to come in and can show up earlier in some birds than others. Bocboc's pattern is still fairly uneven and that crow at that age pretty much seals the deal

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