Are you fond of your backyard chickens and would like to be able to communicate with them? It's incredibly simple and you can learn in one day! Most of this "language" can be learned simply by listening to and observing your animals.
Steps
Step 1. Listen carefully and see what your chickens are doing when they make a certain sound
Step 2. A hen instinctively makes certain noises for her chicks when she is with them
It's like he's saying, "Come here, I've found something to eat, scratch here, or play with it." It sounds like a normal hen but with a very distinct difference. His will be a "Kruk Kruk," with a rolling r similar to certain Spanish accents. Roosters also often make this sound for the same reason as mother hens, as a sort of, "Hey, I found some food, come and eat." You can do it too when you want to give them leftovers or something to eat or if you have to call them all back to order because you have seen a fox lurking nearby.
Step 3. If you are away from your chickens, you can teach them a way to get close when you call them
You can cluck quite similar to the food call, just say, "ChickchickchickchickCHICKIES!" It is generally best to use a higher pitch when making this verse.
Step 4. You can also sing like them
It looks sort of like: "craaaaaaaaaaaw cruk cruk crawwwwwww." Singing to them can be any kind of hen sound, just emit a low, quiet tone of voice.
Step 5. Chickens also make sounds to warn of dangers
It is probably impossible to imitate them, but if you listen closely you may be able to recognize them and intervene promptly to rescue them from any trouble they are getting into. But sometimes these sounds can be imitated. They are also useful if you need to check that there are no hawks that could eat the chicks.
Step 6. Chickens are able to learn, and if you constantly use a specific sound for a task (for example, you can say "Go ahead! Go ahead!"
when you bring out the food), they will kindly reply.
Advice
- Sit down with your chickens, spend time with them, try to imitate them and observe their reactions.
- Chickens make alarm sounds for many different reasons, but two distress calls are certain: danger from the air (a whistling siren-like sound) and from the ground (which sounds like "Cluck-CLUCK Cluck-CLUCK cluck cluck cluck "). Learning to recognize these sounds can be very helpful in understanding your chickens' outlook. Chickens also make these calls to indicate things they cannot recognize just to alert the whole group.
- These animals use body language a lot! The position of their tails and neck feathers is often used to show confidence.
- A bird's best senses are sight and hearing. Your chickens will appreciate when you speak to them in Italian too.
- If the chickens are very used to your presence you can also teach them some tricks! For example, you can teach roosters (and only them) to fly on your arm and to crow on command.
- Sometimes you can hear the cries of panicked chickens mixed with grumbles of annoyance. After some time spent with them, you will be able to tell the difference between the two types of verses.
- If you want to train your chicks from an early age know that they may not listen to you, so don't be impatient!
Warnings
- Chickens are not stupid animals, despite widespread opinion. They are intelligent, curious and social animals. The hierarchical ladder shows that they are smart enough to have a rather advanced society. But even if they are smart, they can't always understand what you mean when you try to talk. Each "cluck" could mean a great variety of things.
- If you have a rooster and you feed the other chickens instead of him, he may attack and attack you with his spurs.
