Re: Chicken vocalizations

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:17:53 -0600, "John Morse" <john_morse@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

<hal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've been doing quite well on my first experiment with chicken
farming, thanks largely to great advice I've received here. I have 23
Rhode Island Reds, 20 hens and 3 roosters. The are about 6 months old
and laying like crazy. I'm getting typically 18 eggs a day! The
chickens really have been quite fun to work with. I guess I expected
more indifference on the part of the chickens (in regards to their
surroundings and people), but they really are quite alert, aware, and
very curious. They come running up to the fence when I approach and
follow me the length of the pen when heading for the coop. When I go
in the coop they all come in to see what is going on. If they are all
inside and I talk to them from outside the pen they will all come
pouring out the pophole to see what is going on. Feeding and
watering times seem to be great fun for them and none seem to want to
miss anything. They really do seem to have a rather large vocabulary
as well, which leads me to my question. Are there any sites with good
collections of vocalization recordings with behavioral explanations
for the sounds? At times the squawking the hens make sounds somewhat
distressed, but they may just be chatting. The roosters, of course,
crow up quite a racket at times, in particular the two dominant
ones,(sometimes in unison) but there are a great many other sounds
made at different times and it would be nice to have a better
understanding of what they are talking about.
thanks
Hal

They have a different sound that they make when they see a hawk or something
strange flying.
I can't quite describe it though.

John


Perhaps the "aerial call"?

http://www.bioacoustics.uconn.edu/chicken.html
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