Your right about the crowing, I was listening to this video outside and when your rooster crowed my rooster got mad smacked his wings together and started crowing I couldn't stop laughing at how mad he got
I appreciate your insight on raising chickens, I just started my 1st year and found out there is a little more than just feeding them. The language helps because I know by thier sounds that I'm I'm heading the right way. Thanks
My favorite sounds: bees buzzing, birds singing, gentle rain falling, a crackling wood fire, and the quiet clucking of content chickens. If I were technically gifted, I'd put those few seconds into a sound loop and listen to it for hours.
No contact is needed as they fire invisible lasers from their eyes. Good job in describing their behaviours dear English Country Life. You are the Sir David Attenborough of chickens.
Terrific lesson in chicken speak. People don’t realise that birds have a definite language both in sounds and body language. My pet pigeon has a complicated set of sounds and visual signs too. Well done with this video. V interesting.
Beautiful well explained video. Have been a chicken keeper for many years and have learnt their " language ". Their are so many different calls. Chickens have emotions, I observed two getting into a fight which the rooster broke up. One hen was very upset, she started " muttering ", walked all around the edge of the land, went into the coop, jumped on her perch and stayed there the rest of the day!
I'm an apartment-dwelling city boy, so I don't know why I ended up here, but that was such a lovely watch and very informative. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
I raise chickens inside my downtown apartment. And take them for walks. I tend to kill the chicks for fun though or use as live fish bait on the hook because I dont need more chickens. 5 is enough for my studio apartment.
@@ayoutubecommenter1827 uh yeah get some help ..you really should sell the chicks , they can bring some good money. They make nice gifts too. I hatch and raise flocks for people upon request. I also have a nifty Little shipping hatching eggs business. A hatching egg sells for more than a chick even. They ste quite valuable, especially during this Global chicken shortage that is occurring right now
Crowing is definitely territorial, my neighbor's chickens used to visit my yard daily, once I got some of my own, and my rooster started crowing, they never visited anymore.
I'm not sure what this means in relation to territoriality, but my nearest neighbors about 200yrds up the road like me have about 18 hens and a rooster. The two roosters answer each others crows most of the time. Often when I'm home for the weekend, or when the days are longer, I'll let my flock out to free range after I'm home from work. It seems their favorite place to go is over to the neighbor's run to argue through the fence. Likewise, if he lets his out first, I often find them outside of my run arguing through my fence, but if his and mine are all out, they won't really mix or fight, but will stay in their own groups sort of near each other but not too near, whether somewhere in the area over here or over there. The roosters from each flock tend to be the nearest to each other but not too near. I don't think they fight, or I've never caught them, they just sort of have an understanding, "You stay away from these hens, and I'll stay away from yours, but I'm going to stay near enough to keep my eye on you". Neither flock keeps their distance when the other is shut in their run though, they are right in each others faces when there's netting between them. I sort of wonder if territory is sort of fluid in a way. I see that at dusk they all know which coop is their own, and return to the proper one, but it seems to me that out in the day, territory may become sort of a movable ring within a rooster's influence?
One day my hens were all FREAKING out with the "I just laid an egg sound," so I went out there to see what the big deal was, and there lied the biggest egg I have ever seen. They must have been as excited as I was.
This brought back a lot of memories from the chickens we had when I was a kid. They're such wonderful creatures and very relaxing to watch. Thanks for the great video!
Between chicks, hens, and roosters, they make about 30 different sounds with different meanings. There's some overlap between the three types of chickens, but they largely have their own separate vocabularies as their roles in the flock differ. This was a good overview of some of the most common vocalizations. Chickens are very smart animals, with a very complex social structure, which is why they make such excellent livestock. They stick together and control each other, and take care of each other, making the farmer's job a lot easier managing them. In effect, they domesticated themselves, finding it beneficial to live alongside humans. If you see wild junglefowl in southeast Asia, you'll recognize the same behaviors and vocalizations as the domesticated chickens in your backyard or farm, even though they are now considered a separate species. Something interesting to note about alarm calls. They use a different call for ground threats than they do for aerial threats (they actually have a couple different ones for each, indicating the immediacy of the threat). Basically, they let each other know whether to look up or down to see something coming, or something of interest that the flock should be aware of. You may also notice that chickens use their left eye for scrutinizing such threats, as that eye is much better at depth perception than the right eye. The right eye is better at recognizing food, up close.
We raised a pair of brother roosters in one clutch and they were wonderful. We started having chickens to help fertilize the lawn and peck out bugs, but I fell in love with having a flock when I watched the two boys call the girls over to some bread I tossed their way, without eating any themselves. The girls were in the woods, scratching around, and the two boys started clucking, picking up the food and dropping it again, until they were sure all the girls had had some - Only then did they enjoy some themselves. That was my first experience seeing chickens as a caring society, and I adore them now. We currently have a small flock of Sapphire Gems.
You have a wicked sweet setup for your flock! Thank you for the education on chicken behavior and calls. We rescued three chickens that someone abandoned on our rural road. I think they are around 6 weeks old , they are a real treat to watch and interact with. We have made them safe and secure and hope they will live a happy life! Thanks again for your insight!!
I love how chubby Orpingtons are with feathers, and how absolutely rotund that makes the rooster look. Most of my hens sing the egg song well before they lay, but not long after. I don't know if that's because they generally share a nest in the coop anyway, or if they're just done with the idea of brooding that fast. There's a few other fun noises I can think of - one is the annoyed extended cluck they do largely at me when I take eggs from under them or hold them too long (I assume this is in place of a peck.) I hear them make it at one another from time to time. Another is the excited clucking and exaggerated neck movement/running they do when they've found a large treat - usually a hornworm, or a fish they've nabbed from the duck pen, though I've seen them do it with a large scorpion and a live lizard, too! It gets the attention of the other hens, and they all run after trying to get at the treat. I figure this is a way to get help tearing up the treat into a more managable size, but it all looks very funny and somewhat playful. Crowing is certainly territorial - my roos have always done it when they think there's cats, quail, or people (sometimes me) that need reminding that it's their space. They also do it to call stray hens back into their sights. I have a hen that likes to escape and wander into the brush, and the only thing that brings her back up is his crowing or the sun going down.
There are so many calls that I couldn't cover, mainly because I couldn't capture them on film.....the chickens are such divas!!!! They don't take film direction 🤣🤣🤣
I have been terrified of chickens and most other birds (don't ask why) for so many years. Lately I've been watching videos like this to try and help me get over it. Your video was by far the best one I've seen. Learning their "language" taught me that the noise they're making and way they flap their wings and run around, is to communicate, and doesn't mean I'M COMING FOR YOU...haha. They have their own little community and its actually very interesting! Thank you very much for posting this...!
I know this was a year ago, but thank you for this information video! We adopted a friend's flock last night and I've been trying to tell if their noises are contentment or stress. Now I'm pretty sure it's the "I found food" cluck as they're free ranging for the first time in over a year.
While in one flock I came across at a farm there were multiple roosters that had grown up together however one of them developed a habit of exploiting the there’s food here call in order to attract the hens so he could mate with them when there actually wasn’t any food so the rest of the flock learned to ignore him whenever he made that call as they had learned about his cheeky habits! :)
I grew up begrudgingly tending to chickens (watering, feeding, gathering eggs, replacing old hay for bedding, etc.). Today it’s been over 25 years since I’ve cared for one and I miss it so much (hence why I’m checking out this video). I hope to move where I can have them within the year.
I had a chicken one time when I was young. She was so awesome! She barely ever made a peep! I wish I could raise a whole lot of chickens like this, they’re so much fun to just watch and listen to. People think they’re dumb birds but it’s amazing just how smart they can be. Anyways, yah great video 👍🏻I love chickens 🐓
I'm a CNA and I take care of old people in their homes. My favorite patient has chickens and sometimes I get to take care of them. He calls that sound they make when they lay an egg an "egg announcement" lol.
My pet chicken, Noodles lives inside with me. I know what each & every one of her clucks means. When she's alerting me to a potential threat, when she's happy, when she needs her nest made, all of them. I speak chicken pretty fluently. We just rolled outta bed & i found your video. It was very nice. 🖤
i talk to my chickens a lot and listen to them too, interesting to note that my take on all these noises was very similar to what you said, just from treating them as intelligent interesting beings and communicating with them. you missed one noise i was hoping to hear but it's kind of hard to describe, but me and my last remaining chicken speak it all the time, maybe a greeting of sort, but it does bring us closer... much love, great vid...
In Farsi, we call the rooster's crow "azan," meaning "call to prayer." The belief is that roosters crow in the morning to awaken the faithful to pray. I have also heard that roosters crow whenever an angel appears. I thought this would be fun to share. Thank you for the educational video.
I think roosters crow for two reasons. I think it is a territory announcement and also a show of strength. Usually if two roosters are far enough away that they can’t see each other but can hear each other crow, they will reply to each other. A strong, tough rooster will have a strong and tough sounding crow. I see it as a display of power which is directed towards both hens and other roosters.
This video just saved me so much grief! Thank you so so much I’ve been in tears worried about one of my hens and this video put me at ease. Thanks so much
This brings back a lot of lovely memories. I grew up with Chickens and Ducks. One chicken communication I cannot forget is how the mother hen would signal her chicks when there was a hawk flying close by and they would instantly disappear under leaves, or anything large enough to cover their tiny frame. Then mum would be alone and free to engage the intruder.. lol. Sometimes we would help her out.. It was always a joy to see them emerge from their hiding places anytime the threat was passed.. However, if the hawk successfully grabbed a chick.. mother hen would cry about it for quite some time.
@@EnglishCountryLife crows go after your chickens? I have chickens in the USA and I swear the crows look out for them. I’ll hear them crowing and when I go outside to check on them, sure enough a hawk is flying around. One time I even watched three crows dive bombing the hawk in the sky and chased it away from our area. The crows do like to eat any unfinished scraps or treats that the chickens left behind.
@@Alpinefan1 Hi! They are excellent mothers! The breed is Buff Orpington. We have a playlist on their breeding capabilities which are phenomenal th-cam.com/play/PLDluIIoNPsleVCZnNfB9XUJ6X0qJd4EUw.html
My family has been trying to figure out why one of our hens is constantly calling out in the middle of the day. Now we know she was just looking for a place to lay her egg. Thanks for the video!!
This is such a fantastic video! Thank you! If I might add, when speaking about the cockerel calling the hens over to the food, notice it is the exact same call that a mother hen does when calling her chicks over. I always thought that’s fascinating. There’s a sort of switch of care from mummy to rooster, and that rooster learned that call from his mommy and now uses it for his hens.
@@EnglishCountryLife I apologize because I typed that before I got to the part in your video where you mentioned it.. I am not able to edit my comments, or delete them for some reason. I would have if I could. I just wanted to add to your video, but you had it covered anyway!
Just got recommended this video by the TH-cam algorithm And I’ll definitely keep this video in mind whenever I need help understanding what my chickens may be telling me It’s a great educational video I’ve definitely learned some things from it :D
Having spent the last couple months with my new chickens I'm begining to noticed some more of these behaviors. Well done vid thank you for all the info.
Thank you so very much for your sweet, informative video. It's obvious that you truly love your flock. You have answered - and shown - what they all say and do and translated it clearly. We've often wondered what all the 'talk' and 'walk' was about and now we know! Many giggles and lasting smiles have been the result of your careful and loving work - thank you so much!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I loved this video! I have a hen as my pet, and is really important to me make her feel safe with me and understand what she’s feeling! Thank you so much
Hi,I'm from Mexico and I'm living in Virginia usa.i grew up in Mexico and I come from a poor family,we always had chickens but I never paid attention to the different noises the chickens make until I decide to build a chicken coop here in Virginia.i like the noise the mother hen makes when she's feeding her chicks.now I understand a lot about all those noises.i like all your videos,thank you so much.
Hello dear my name is Kamran I am from Pakistan I have no job I need my personal business can you help me I have a hen farming experience if you have any Hen (please help me) please help me as possible.
We have been carefully breeding our own strain of Buffs for a number of years and size is one of the attributes that we breed for. We are breeding towards the old utility attributes rather than modern "show" standards
I don't have chickens, but my grandparents did. They took care of me whenever my parents worked. The owner of the house I rented had a pet rooster. Mean and big. When he pecked, he drew blood. I was the only one of my roomates who could handle him, so whenever he got loose, I had to be the one who grabbed him. He loved the petting, but was quite unpredictable. Such memories. Wherever I go, I have chickens in my life 😆
You were delightful! I raise chickens as pets and for the harmony they bring to my farm. I recognize and identified all the hen language..truly fascinating.Gods blessings
Loved your video. It's very well made. I raise Mottle Houdans and I see these communications often in my own flock. Only thing I would have added is the sound an angry broody hen makes when you go to check for eggs. When I first started out with my flock I had no idea that non broody hens are very different around their eggs from the broody ones. After a few good bruises on my hand, I learned.
Excellent narration paired with visuals! From 5:06-5:23, the cockerels only make that sound to warn of a danger from above, as opposed to a ground danger. I have demonstrated this to kids saying, "kids, you want to hear a chicken sound like a dinosaur?', and then throw something in the air prompting the cockerel to make the "dinosaur sound" to warn the flock. Thank you so much, had to subscribe!!
Wow that was so helpful. I have wild chickens that live around here that I feed a couple of times a day and have always wanted to understand their communication. Thanks :)
I used to live in the rural area and was so used of chickens when I was young and always took them for granted. Ironically, I rarely see native chickens roaming freely anymore as the towns and cities developed and became more and more populated.
That ten minutes of cuteness. I have had chickens in the childhood and I am so wanting to hold these little cutees chicks and get them sleepy on my chest. And let them hit their little beaks on my teeth.
Hello dear my name is Kamran I am from Pakistan I have no job I need my personal business can you help me I have a hen farming experience if you have any Hen (please help me) please help me as possible.
Thanks! We are in Houston, Texas USA and have 28 chickens. I've been curious about their language.... even learning some it just from daily encounters. Your video was helpful and gave me a few new insights. Thank you. I don't know where you are at, exactly, but I recently did some genealogy and discovered most of my ancestry comes from northwest England (Wales) and northeast Ireland. So I can totally see myself living an English Country life like you. :D Looks like home to me.
This has got to be the best video on chicken education I have seen on youtube! Amazing examples and the information is clearly delivered. Thank you very much!
I miss having a flock of chickens around! They're such underrated pets, and you get free eggs as a bonus (if they're not containing a chick). I was raised on the countryside with a bunch of chickens, it was so fun to just observe their behaviour. There was Pia, Kalle the rooster, Agda, Matilda and Lily, then the mean hen, who seemed rather harsh towards the chicks. Maybe some more nameless ones, can't remember exactly. They were very friendly towards us humans. We got a new small flock after we moved, Lillen, Sotis and Princess among them, but we couldn't keep them. Lillen was the rooster, but he got aggressive (never chased us or anything, he just started attacking people when opening the door into the outside pen, and sometimes would jump lightly up and peck at me, like my finger) so we had to call a friend to slaughter him. I think I remember that he did that "stand on one leg and stretch out your wing" thing towards me? He was on the other side of the fence usually but he leaned against it and did so when I was near. Did he see me as a hen? I did raise him ever since he was a chick and he never seemed afraid of humans, so we dunno what could have caused his aggression exactly.
This video was very helpful for me thank you a whole bunch! Also, your rooster is so fluffy and adorable, I was having a hard time focusing on the cockerel part because I just kept thinking how much I wanted to hug him haha
it's a dream of mine to someday have a nice yard such as this for some very fluffy chickens. you're very lucky to have these feathery friends! thank you for the video :)
Great video, very educational! I always knew animals talked to one another (and to us), but every species has its own language, and this was a wonderful primer on the language of chickens. Delightful little animals, and yours are especially pretty. They look so fat and fluffy and round, I just want to hold them and have them sit in my lap.❤️❤️❤️❤️ My grandpa had free range chickens on a small farm, and he liked sleeping on the porch, rather than in the house (possibly due to PTSD from WW II), and if a hen didn’t make it to the coop to roost in time, and the coop was locked for the night (there were foxes in the woods nearby), she would fly up to my grandpa’s bed and sleep on his chest. They knew their Daddy would keep them safe, lol!💕 Clever birds!!
me: **has a coding project to finish by the end of the day**
TH-cam: You wanna know how chickens communicate?
me: Hell yeah!
DON'T start watching our broody hen & chick videos or nothing will get compiled today 😁
@@EnglishCountryLife too late. no regrets, though 😂
@@killianoshaughnessy1174 Great for us....not so much for your project.....🙄
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@@EnglishCountryLife LOL
“By pecking them lightly on the head”
Ganett: BOP
Its even funnier given that she's smaller than most of the other chickens 😁
@@EnglishCountryLife she reminds me of my mom when I talked back to her!
2:37 the death stare!
@@cindyshirreffs2099 For sure
Your right about the crowing, I was listening to this video outside and when your rooster crowed my rooster got mad smacked his wings together and started crowing I couldn't stop laughing at how mad he got
That's hilarious 😁
I appreciate your insight on raising chickens, I just started my 1st year and found out there is a little more than just feeding them. The language helps because I know by thier sounds that I'm I'm heading the right way. Thanks
@@tyronephipps7759 You are very welcome
Sometime I like to put a video of roosters croaking just to get my two roosters croaking
Mine too all 5 of them!!
My favorite sounds: bees buzzing, birds singing, gentle rain falling, a crackling wood fire, and the quiet clucking of content chickens. If I were technically gifted, I'd put those few seconds into a sound loop and listen to it for hours.
I know exactly what you mean 🙂
I cant stop laughing at that rooster-hen chase. He's so fluffy, he's like a literall furball running
They make us laugh too!
@@EnglishCountryLife Looks like the hens aren't interested in his pecker...😉
@@EnglishCountryLife yesss
@@EnglishCountryLife funny love
I cant get over how floofy your chickens are, theyre adorable
Buff Orpingtons are a very heavy feathered breed - but yes we find them adorable!
Very cool. I thought it was a hen just telling everyone “hey I laid an egg” but makes sense it’s “hey come lay here so we can watch each other’s eggs”
Oh yes - once they go broody they hook the other hens eggs under them 🙂
By rthe bds on their lgs.
Bands on the lgs.
I thought is from the pain of releasing an egg. 🤷🏻♀️
@@main2333 Same! I thought it was like gasping in relief
I'm sorry, I can't take that rooster's threat pose seriously. He's too chubby.
Its all feathers in reality that make him look "big"😉, he is a gentle giant though
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh my this dude is so big with little flappers? My rooster is sooo different, he never chasses a hen, they drop and present rear!
@@richarddixson1971 You have a Chad Roster.
@@Neloish lmfao
I’m distracted by the adorable chicks roaming around in the back
That's OK. I'm constantly distracted by them!
samee
That's what I came for lol
Always find it funny for a rooster calling hens over when he’s found food particularly grapes😂, and all the unusual funny noises
Not to mention when he dances 🙂
i'm not a farmer, but an artist. knowing animal body language is very important in illustration! thanks for the guide :)
You are very welcome 😊
No contact is needed as they fire invisible lasers from their eyes. Good job in describing their behaviours dear English Country Life.
You are the Sir David Attenborough of chickens.
That's very flattering. Thank you so much!
Love that man
Terrific lesson in chicken speak. People don’t realise that birds have a definite language both in sounds and body language. My pet pigeon has a complicated set of sounds and visual signs too. Well done with this video. V interesting.
Thank you so much!
They definitely do. Ours mimic what we say. Our oldest even says her name. Chickens are amazing as they also love cuddling and give “hugs”.
Absolutely wrong.. Chickens are not indigenous to western world.
Therefore, the chicken language cannot be deciphered by Europeans
Beautiful well explained video. Have been a chicken keeper for many years and have learnt their " language ". Their are so many different calls. Chickens have emotions, I observed two getting into a fight which the rooster broke up. One hen was very upset, she started " muttering ", walked all around the edge of the land, went into the coop, jumped on her perch and stayed there the rest of the day!
Oh they can definitely sulk!
😂
I'm an apartment-dwelling city boy, so I don't know why I ended up here, but that was such a lovely watch and very informative. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
So glad glad that you enjoyed it. Come back and see us soon 🙂
I raise chickens inside my downtown apartment. And take them for walks. I tend to kill the chicks for fun though or use as live fish bait on the hook because I dont need more chickens. 5 is enough for my studio apartment.
@@ayoutubecommenter1827 You good bro
@@ayoutubecommenter1827 uh yeah get some help ..you really should sell the chicks , they can bring some good money. They make nice gifts too. I hatch and raise flocks for people upon request. I also have a nifty Little shipping hatching eggs business. A hatching egg sells for more than a chick even. They ste quite valuable, especially during this Global chicken shortage that is occurring right now
@@aliabdul6513 stop encouraging him
Crowing is definitely territorial, my neighbor's chickens used to visit my yard daily, once I got some of my own, and my rooster started crowing, they never visited anymore.
Thanks
I'm not sure what this means in relation to territoriality, but my nearest neighbors about 200yrds up the road like me have about 18 hens and a rooster. The two roosters answer each others crows most of the time. Often when I'm home for the weekend, or when the days are longer, I'll let my flock out to free range after I'm home from work. It seems their favorite place to go is over to the neighbor's run to argue through the fence. Likewise, if he lets his out first, I often find them outside of my run arguing through my fence, but if his and mine are all out, they won't really mix or fight, but will stay in their own groups sort of near each other but not too near, whether somewhere in the area over here or over there. The roosters from each flock tend to be the nearest to each other but not too near. I don't think they fight, or I've never caught them, they just sort of have an understanding, "You stay away from these hens, and I'll stay away from yours, but I'm going to stay near enough to keep my eye on you". Neither flock keeps their distance when the other is shut in their run though, they are right in each others faces when there's netting between them. I sort of wonder if territory is sort of fluid in a way. I see that at dusk they all know which coop is their own, and return to the proper one, but it seems to me that out in the day, territory may become sort of a movable ring within a rooster's influence?
@@bradpayn8058 Maybe crowing is a mix of saying I am here, stay away, come here my hens and who I am.
@@bradpayn8058 very cool observations
One day my hens were all FREAKING out with the "I just laid an egg sound," so I went out there to see what the big deal was, and there lied the biggest egg I have ever seen. They must have been as excited as I was.
Fantastic 😁
Nothing better than hearing the egg song at 9 or 10 am, going outside and grabbing breakfast while it's still warm
That's a real fresh egg!
This brought back a lot of memories from the chickens we had when I was a kid. They're such wonderful creatures and very relaxing to watch. Thanks for the great video!
That's very kind of you ☺
Yes I like to sit in my backyard and just watch my flock. They do some funny things
Between chicks, hens, and roosters, they make about 30 different sounds with different meanings. There's some overlap between the three types of chickens, but they largely have their own separate vocabularies as their roles in the flock differ. This was a good overview of some of the most common vocalizations. Chickens are very smart animals, with a very complex social structure, which is why they make such excellent livestock. They stick together and control each other, and take care of each other, making the farmer's job a lot easier managing them. In effect, they domesticated themselves, finding it beneficial to live alongside humans. If you see wild junglefowl in southeast Asia, you'll recognize the same behaviors and vocalizations as the domesticated chickens in your backyard or farm, even though they are now considered a separate species.
Something interesting to note about alarm calls. They use a different call for ground threats than they do for aerial threats (they actually have a couple different ones for each, indicating the immediacy of the threat). Basically, they let each other know whether to look up or down to see something coming, or something of interest that the flock should be aware of. You may also notice that chickens use their left eye for scrutinizing such threats, as that eye is much better at depth perception than the right eye. The right eye is better at recognizing food, up close.
Very interesting
Interesting read. Ty.
We raised a pair of brother roosters in one clutch and they were wonderful. We started having chickens to help fertilize the lawn and peck out bugs, but I fell in love with having a flock when I watched the two boys call the girls over to some bread I tossed their way, without eating any themselves. The girls were in the woods, scratching around, and the two boys started clucking, picking up the food and dropping it again, until they were sure all the girls had had some - Only then did they enjoy some themselves. That was my first experience seeing chickens as a caring society, and I adore them now. We currently have a small flock of Sapphire Gems.
It is charming to see - as it is when broody hens do it with chicks!
I love hearing the roosters. The baby chicks with the mama roaming around are so so cute ☺️
They are lovely, we should see the first broody hen in a few weeks!
Beautiful bright eyes of Ginger with her chicks. You can tell your chickens are happy and healthy and loved 🥰
Thank you 😊
All those chooks are gorgous, chubby, but very happy hens.
Thanks for this video, very educational and enjoyable!
Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
You have a wicked sweet setup for your flock! Thank you for the education on chicken behavior and calls. We rescued three chickens that someone abandoned on our rural road. I think they are around 6 weeks old , they are a real treat to watch and interact with. We have made them safe and secure and hope they will live a happy life! Thanks again for your insight!!
Thanks Phil 🙂. Good luck with yours
I love how chubby Orpingtons are with feathers, and how absolutely rotund that makes the rooster look.
Most of my hens sing the egg song well before they lay, but not long after. I don't know if that's because they generally share a nest in the coop anyway, or if they're just done with the idea of brooding that fast.
There's a few other fun noises I can think of - one is the annoyed extended cluck they do largely at me when I take eggs from under them or hold them too long (I assume this is in place of a peck.) I hear them make it at one another from time to time.
Another is the excited clucking and exaggerated neck movement/running they do when they've found a large treat - usually a hornworm, or a fish they've nabbed from the duck pen, though I've seen them do it with a large scorpion and a live lizard, too! It gets the attention of the other hens, and they all run after trying to get at the treat. I figure this is a way to get help tearing up the treat into a more managable size, but it all looks very funny and somewhat playful.
Crowing is certainly territorial - my roos have always done it when they think there's cats, quail, or people (sometimes me) that need reminding that it's their space. They also do it to call stray hens back into their sights. I have a hen that likes to escape and wander into the brush, and the only thing that brings her back up is his crowing or the sun going down.
There are so many calls that I couldn't cover, mainly because I couldn't capture them on film.....the chickens are such divas!!!! They don't take film direction 🤣🤣🤣
I have been terrified of chickens and most other birds (don't ask why) for so many years. Lately I've been watching videos like this to try and help me get over it. Your video was by far the best one I've seen. Learning their "language" taught me that the noise they're making and way they flap their wings and run around, is to communicate, and doesn't mean I'M COMING FOR YOU...haha. They have their own little community and its actually very interesting! Thank you very much for posting this...!
I'm so glad it helped you. Your comment has made very happy. Thank you 😊
I know this was a year ago, but thank you for this information video! We adopted a friend's flock last night and I've been trying to tell if their noises are contentment or stress. Now I'm pretty sure it's the "I found food" cluck as they're free ranging for the first time in over a year.
So glad that it helped and that they are happy!
While in one flock I came across at a farm there were multiple roosters that had grown up together however one of them developed a habit of exploiting the there’s food here call in order to attract the hens so he could mate with them when there actually wasn’t any food so the rest of the flock learned to ignore him whenever he made that call as they had learned about his cheeky habits! :)
Interesting. Thank you 😊
I grew up begrudgingly tending to chickens (watering, feeding, gathering eggs, replacing old hay for bedding, etc.). Today it’s been over 25 years since I’ve cared for one and I miss it so much (hence why I’m checking out this video). I hope to move where I can have them within the year.
I think our tastes change as we mature & much that was dull as a youngster becomes peaceful and pleasant as an adult. I hope you get your new place 🙂
@@EnglishCountryLife - couldn’t agree more; and thank you - I will!
I had a chicken one time when I was young. She was so awesome! She barely ever made a peep! I wish I could raise a whole lot of chickens like this, they’re so much fun to just watch and listen to. People think they’re dumb birds but it’s amazing just how smart they can be. Anyways, yah great video 👍🏻I love chickens 🐓
Fingers crossed you can have a lot one day!
That slo-mo and narration at 2:20 is especially brilliant. Very helpful video, thanks!
You're very welcome! I'm very flattered!
Awww watching this makes me miss raising chickens. They were so fun and had so much personality
Are you able to keep them again?
I know this was 3 years ago but I'm so glad I found this video so I can understand what my chickens are trying to say! Keep up the good work! ❤
Awesome! Thank you!
I'm a CNA and I take care of old people in their homes. My favorite patient has chickens and sometimes I get to take care of them. He calls that sound they make when they lay an egg an "egg announcement" lol.
That's great that you get to look after them
An “eggnouncement” 🎉
My pet chicken, Noodles lives inside with me. I know what each & every one of her clucks means. When she's alerting me to a potential threat, when she's happy, when she needs her nest made, all of them. I speak chicken pretty fluently. We just rolled outta bed & i found your video. It was very nice. 🖤
Thank you 🙂
i talk to my chickens a lot and listen to them too, interesting to note that my take on all these noises was very similar to what you said, just from treating them as intelligent interesting beings and communicating with them. you missed one noise i was hoping to hear but it's kind of hard to describe, but me and my last remaining chicken speak it all the time, maybe a greeting of sort, but it does bring us closer... much love, great vid...
Thank you
Thanks. I heard lots of explanation from different sources on why the hen made noise after laying egg, but I think yours makes the most sense.
You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it
In Farsi, we call the rooster's crow "azan," meaning "call to prayer." The belief is that roosters crow in the morning to awaken the faithful to pray. I have also heard that roosters crow whenever an angel appears.
I thought this would be fun to share. Thank you for the educational video.
That's really interesting, thank you
💯 True
This is the first time I have ever seen educational videos on these types of particulars. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Brilliant video Fiona! I love that cockerel food cluck the best, always makes me smile to watch a fella feeding his gals 😊
Me too!! I'm really glad you liked it. My favourite is the broody hen constant booming noise to guide the chicks.
@@EnglishCountryLife
I call it the : BLUK BLUK BLUK sound
This info helped me understand my chicks much better. I look forward to having more chicks by my broody hen!!!
Excellent - and they can free range here from April 1st!
I have 2 hens and a local stray rooster (he comes and goes over my fenced backyard where my hens are). I absolutely love watching them in action.
I could watch chickens for hours
This is excellent! I am new to raising chickens and really enjoying learning about chickens and watching my little flock. Very helpful! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I think roosters crow for two reasons. I think it is a territory announcement and also a show of strength. Usually if two roosters are far enough away that they can’t see each other but can hear each other crow, they will reply to each other. A strong, tough rooster will have a strong and tough sounding crow. I see it as a display of power which is directed towards both hens and other roosters.
Good observation. I agree.
This video just saved me so much grief! Thank you so so much I’ve been in tears worried about one of my hens and this video put me at ease. Thanks so much
I'm so glad that it helped
This brings back a lot of lovely memories. I grew up with Chickens and Ducks. One chicken communication I cannot forget is how the mother hen would signal her chicks when there was a hawk flying close by and they would instantly disappear under leaves, or anything large enough to cover their tiny frame. Then mum would be alone and free to engage the intruder.. lol. Sometimes we would help her out..
It was always a joy to see them emerge from their hiding places anytime the threat was passed.. However, if the hawk successfully grabbed a chick.. mother hen would cry about it for quite some time.
Thankfully our raptors aren't interested in chicks - that's more of a problem with crows
@@EnglishCountryLife crows go after your chickens? I have chickens in the USA and I swear the crows look out for them. I’ll hear them crowing and when I go outside to check on them, sure enough a hawk is flying around. One time I even watched three crows dive bombing the hawk in the sky and chased it away from our area. The crows do like to eat any unfinished scraps or treats that the chickens left behind.
Ive had chicken all my life its been about 1 yr without them..thank you
I'm sure you miss them
I know I'm a little late to this video but this might be the best chicken video I've ever watched to learn from and you have such beautiful chickens
That's so lovely of you - thank you!
@@EnglishCountryLife your very welcome are those hens of yours good mothers and what breed are they if you dont mind me asking ?
@@Alpinefan1 Hi! They are excellent mothers! The breed is Buff Orpington. We have a playlist on their breeding capabilities which are phenomenal
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@@EnglishCountryLife awesome news thank you very much
I love chickens so much. Watching these is so peaceful.
It's even better when the hop in your lap 😊
My family has been trying to figure out why one of our hens is constantly calling out in the middle of the day. Now we know she was just looking for a place to lay her egg. Thanks for the video!!
So glad that it helped!
Let me say,and i have to say.. this video is very informative to newbies (like me) raising their first flock.
So nice of you
This is such a fantastic video! Thank you!
If I might add, when speaking about the cockerel calling the hens over to the food, notice it is the exact same call that a mother hen does when calling her chicks over. I always thought that’s fascinating. There’s a sort of switch of care from mummy to rooster, and that rooster learned that call from his mommy and now uses it for his hens.
Very good point!
@@EnglishCountryLife I apologize because I typed that before I got to the part in your video where you mentioned it.. I am not able to edit my comments, or delete them for some reason. I would have if I could. I just wanted to add to your video, but you had it covered anyway!
@@sonofhibbs4425 Its not a problem - its nice to hear from you
Your flock is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for such great information! I appreciate the examples all your volunteers offered. 😄
Thank you Ash - Merry Christmas 🎄
I loved the fluffy mom hen, and her baby chicks! they're adorable!!!
Thank you 😊
Lol.
@@EnglishCountryLife why do they like 2 eat grass so much. 🌾🌿🌱
Your fluffy T-Rexes are adorable! 💛🐔💛
Thank you! 😊 We think of them as velociraptors.
Beautiful chickens....and the baby chicks are so adorable...🥰🥰
I think so too!
Love your practical approach in explaining all about the hens and chick's thank you.
You are very welcome!
Just got recommended this video by the TH-cam algorithm
And I’ll definitely keep this video in mind whenever I need help understanding what my chickens may be telling me
It’s a great educational video I’ve definitely learned some things from it :D
Thank you so much! That's really kind of you.😊
I've grown up with chickens all my life and while I ended up understanding most of the behaviour it sure was nice learning a few things I didn't know
I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Having spent the last couple months with my new chickens I'm begining to noticed some more of these behaviors. Well done vid thank you for all the info.
Glad that you liked it! Are you enjoying your chickens
Thank you so very much for your sweet, informative video. It's obvious that you truly love your flock. You have answered - and shown - what they all say and do and translated it clearly. We've often wondered what all the 'talk' and 'walk' was about and now we know! Many giggles and lasting smiles have been the result of your careful and loving work - thank you so much!
That's lovely of you Cynthia, thank you
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I loved this video! I have a hen as my pet, and is really important to me make her feel safe with me and understand what she’s feeling! Thank you so much
You're very welcome! 😊
I can’t have a Cockerel in the city, this makes me wish I could have one. Beautiful babies you have! You can tell they are happy and healthy!
Thank you!
What a delightful and beautiful flock! You seem to love your birds a lot ❤️
Thank you! We try yo give them a good life 🙂
Hi,I'm from Mexico and I'm living in Virginia usa.i grew up in Mexico and I come from a poor family,we always had chickens but I never paid attention to the different noises the chickens make until I decide to build a chicken coop here in Virginia.i like the noise the mother hen makes when she's feeding her chicks.now I understand a lot about all those noises.i like all your videos,thank you so much.
We're really glad that you enjoy our videos. Thank you
I love this! I have noticed all of these and a few others in my flock. They absolutely have a language!
They definitely do 😁
Hello dear my name is Kamran I am from Pakistan I have no job I need my personal business can you help me I have a hen farming experience if you have any Hen (please help me) please help me as possible.
These are the largest chickens I've seen - I have buffs and they have constant food out - but none are this big. Thanks for the lesson.
We have been carefully breeding our own strain of Buffs for a number of years and size is one of the attributes that we breed for. We are breeding towards the old utility attributes rather than modern "show" standards
@@EnglishCountryLife they are beautiful and I wish I could have some 🥰🙏🏻 blessings for your farm and family
@@ModernPioneers Thank you- and to you & yours
Your chickens are so beautiful, thank you for making this video! ❤️🙏
I hope you have a wonderful day! 🤗😘
That's lovely of you Regina - thank you! We hope you have a fantastic day too ☺️
@@EnglishCountryLife Thank you! ❤️🙏🤗😘
I don't have chickens, but my grandparents did. They took care of me whenever my parents worked. The owner of the house I rented had a pet rooster. Mean and big. When he pecked, he drew blood. I was the only one of my roomates who could handle him, so whenever he got loose, I had to be the one who grabbed him. He loved the petting, but was quite unpredictable. Such memories. Wherever I go, I have chickens in my life 😆
Sounds like the cockerel knew you were in charge and meant him no harm 🙂
They are impossibly cute. I love them so much. 💕
I'm glad you like them
My Rooster, Topaz, was fascinated and got very interactive with your video!!
That's lovely!
Thank you! Very helpful, now I am assured that my chickens are happy and safe!
I'm glad it was helpful 👍
You were delightful! I raise chickens as pets and for the harmony they bring to my farm. I recognize and identified all the hen language..truly fascinating.Gods blessings
Thank you!
Loved your video. It's very well made. I raise Mottle Houdans and I see these communications often in my own flock. Only thing I would have added is the sound an angry broody hen makes when you go to check for eggs. When I first started out with my flock I had no idea that non broody hens are very different around their eggs from the broody ones. After a few good bruises on my hand, I learned.
That's a good one to add - we call it "Eagle Chicken" !
We have 18 adult laying hens right now and 42 chicks. It is interesting to watch the interactions of the adults. Great channel!
Thank you so much!
Very well put video with accurate footage. Absolutely enjoyed both the fluffy chickens and your sweet presented voice.
Subscribed 👍
Awesome, thank you!
Excellent narration paired with visuals! From 5:06-5:23, the cockerels only make that sound to warn of a danger from above, as opposed to a ground danger. I have demonstrated this to kids saying, "kids, you want to hear a chicken sound like a dinosaur?', and then throw something in the air prompting the cockerel to make the "dinosaur sound" to warn the flock. Thank you so much, had to subscribe!!
Thanks, you've taught me something! Really interesting!
Wow that was so helpful. I have wild chickens that live around here that I feed a couple of times a day and have always wanted to understand their communication. Thanks :)
So glad you liked it Katelin 🙂
I love your channel...I had chickens for a long time..But still learning sooo much from people like you...Thank you.
So nice of you, glad you liked it!
Extremely informative video thank you so much for making this now I know my hens are happy, healthy and relaxed around us!
You're very welcome!
Your flock look so happy and healthy. Great video, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you Kris, that's very kind of you 🙂
I don't even have chickens but I love this video! Super relaxing and educational. Such cute names as well. Can you do a video on chick body language?
I don't have enough footage for that but I can try when our breeding season begins and hatching starts in April/May
I just started my first flock. They’re4 weeks now. This was educational, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it Bob 🙂
I used to live in the rural area and was so used of chickens when I was young and always took them for granted. Ironically, I rarely see native chickens roaming freely anymore as the towns and cities developed and became more and more populated.
So many of us have lost touch with rural reality now. Very sad.
That ten minutes of cuteness. I have had chickens in the childhood and I am so wanting to hold these little cutees chicks and get them sleepy on my chest. And let them hit their little beaks on my teeth.
They are lovely
Thank you! This really helped me understand my chickens and rooster better!
I'm glad it was helpful 😁
Hello dear my name is Kamran I am from Pakistan I have no job I need my personal business can you help me I have a hen farming experience if you have any Hen (please help me) please help me as possible.
Very informative video. My wife and I have a very small flock with a single rooster and you answered many of my questions. Many thanks from USA!
I'm glad it was useful Seth 🙂
Thanks! We are in Houston, Texas USA and have 28 chickens. I've been curious about their language.... even learning some it just from daily encounters. Your video was helpful and gave me a few new insights. Thank you. I don't know where you are at, exactly, but I recently did some genealogy and discovered most of my ancestry comes from northwest England (Wales) and northeast Ireland. So I can totally see myself living an English Country life like you. :D Looks like home to me.
I'm really glad it was helpful! I suspect if you moved from Houston to England you would be a bit cold and tired of the rain quite quickly....😊
This has got to be the best video on chicken education I have seen on youtube! Amazing examples and the information is clearly delivered. Thank you very much!
That's very kind of you - thank you!
I miss having a flock of chickens around! They're such underrated pets, and you get free eggs as a bonus (if they're not containing a chick). I was raised on the countryside with a bunch of chickens, it was so fun to just observe their behaviour. There was Pia, Kalle the rooster, Agda, Matilda and Lily, then the mean hen, who seemed rather harsh towards the chicks. Maybe some more nameless ones, can't remember exactly. They were very friendly towards us humans. We got a new small flock after we moved, Lillen, Sotis and Princess among them, but we couldn't keep them. Lillen was the rooster, but he got aggressive (never chased us or anything, he just started attacking people when opening the door into the outside pen, and sometimes would jump lightly up and peck at me, like my finger) so we had to call a friend to slaughter him. I think I remember that he did that "stand on one leg and stretch out your wing" thing towards me? He was on the other side of the fence usually but he leaned against it and did so when I was near. Did he see me as a hen? I did raise him ever since he was a chick and he never seemed afraid of humans, so we dunno what could have caused his aggression exactly.
Some cockerels can be aggressive and see people as subordinate. We hatch all our cockerels and from day 1 they know who is in charge 😉
I’m amazed you still have lush grass with all your chickens. It doesn’t last long with ours. Thanks for the video!
Our enclosure is very large & we only keep a few chickens in it when the grass isn't growing. It sustains a lot when its growing fast 🙂
We’re new to your channel and have loved watching all your videos.
Very informative and never boring .
Wel done and thank you 😊
Thanks so much and you are so welcome!
That is the most fluffiest squishiest adorable rooster I've seen I love chickens all sizes especially the big fluffy ones
We call them "floofs" because.....well...they are so floofy 😁
@@EnglishCountryLife they're all so adorable I love chickens, I love birds but chickens are my number one of all birds ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This video was very helpful for me thank you a whole bunch! Also, your rooster is so fluffy and adorable, I was having a hard time focusing on the cockerel part because I just kept thinking how much I wanted to hug him haha
Thanks 😊 I am glad it was useful. Cogburn the Rooster is a character
We've got 4 backyard chickens. This was really helpful, and just a lot of fun. Thank you so much for putting this together.
I'm so glad that you enjoyed it 🙂
it's a dream of mine to someday have a nice yard such as this for some very fluffy chickens. you're very lucky to have these feathery friends! thank you for the video :)
So glad that you enjoyed it
Gannett's look at 2:42 is HYSTERICAL. What a glare!!
Gannet outranked everyone - including us in her mind 😁
Great video, very educational! I always knew animals talked to one another (and to us), but every species has its own language, and this was a wonderful primer on the language of chickens. Delightful little animals, and yours are especially pretty. They look so fat and fluffy and round, I just want to hold them and have them sit in my lap.❤️❤️❤️❤️ My grandpa had free range chickens on a small farm, and he liked sleeping on the porch, rather than in the house (possibly due to PTSD from WW II), and if a hen didn’t make it to the coop to roost in time, and the coop was locked for the night (there were foxes in the woods nearby), she would fly up to my grandpa’s bed and sleep on his chest. They knew their Daddy would keep them safe, lol!💕 Clever birds!!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for telling us your family story. Wonderful.
You have the most beautiful chickens I've ever seen.
That's so lovely of you - thank you