What Is My Chicken Telling Me? Understanding Backyard Chicken Behavior

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  • @lilthechickenhasautismandc3024
    @lilthechickenhasautismandc3024 7 років тому +62

    I am OBSESSED with chickens. I'm getting some new ones soon to give my only one some company.

    • @destinyscroggs2099
      @destinyscroggs2099 4 роки тому +3

      LilTheChickenHasAutismAndCancer - Vlogs and more good good, chickens always need a friend or two, I planned to get 10 and we sorta “accidentally” bought 21 haha I love them tho

    • @honeybeezerothree5473
      @honeybeezerothree5473 4 роки тому +1

      LilTheChickenHasAutismAndCancer - Vlogs and more I’m obsessed too, Can I follow you on Instagram?

    • @SoupMagoosh
      @SoupMagoosh 4 роки тому

      LilTheChickenHasAutismAndCancer - Vlogs and more, same

  • @lolz.xxx6208
    @lolz.xxx6208 7 років тому +43

    the black chicken reminded me from my very first hen sadly she past away when she was very young

    • @sener1369
      @sener1369 4 роки тому

      Beacause you had a wonderful breakfast with your chicken

  • @mondopinion3777
    @mondopinion3777 4 роки тому

    Great video -- so peaceful. I am a longtime chicken keeper, and always learning more about their communications. I think hens are saying "I want .. I want..." when they make this little sound. They can use it for different purposes besides egg laying and vary it slightly to express urgency, or other factors. Roosters can make it too, although rarely. I love it because it is never demanding and unpleasant. It's like they are singing "Wouldn't it be nice? .. Sure would like . . ."

  • @ReegyDee
    @ReegyDee 9 років тому +35

    It's funny watching animals. Can imagine what it's thinking. "Oow the gates open! Oh yeh thinks lawnmower looks good!"

    • @plantabundance
      @plantabundance  9 років тому +3

      Yeah, they're a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for tuning in! Cheers!

    • @katimelton773
      @katimelton773 7 років тому

      Mine do this, they are looking for spiders and other big bugs that hide in the shadows. Plus, they love when hubby mows, they scoop up huge mouthfuls of grass and find more bugs!
      k

    • @8foldproduction587
      @8foldproduction587 4 роки тому

      A chicken doese not know what a lawnmower is

  • @homesteadhousewife9964
    @homesteadhousewife9964 5 років тому +1

    New sub here and a new chicken owner! Being in tune to them is key to happy healthy birds! The same thing happened to me sort of, once I provided a second nesting option I finally got my first egg!!!

  • @jimmynuetron7047
    @jimmynuetron7047 7 років тому +3

    Ah lovely my blackrock was making the exact same noise and i was wondering what it meant, i thought it was that she wanted to lay! Thanks for clearing that up

  • @thiskiddyahoo
    @thiskiddyahoo 4 роки тому +1

    You have a really nice Chicken home! Love to see happy chickens!

  • @charlotteseden9303
    @charlotteseden9303 2 роки тому +1

    That's cute. Keep those chickens happy🙂

  • @allatgoddess8961
    @allatgoddess8961 6 років тому +37

    Black chicken: "Are you following me?"

    • @33bien
      @33bien 6 років тому

      lol

    • @33bien
      @33bien 6 років тому

      trying to pick up some secrets, what else?

  • @ancientfutures
    @ancientfutures 4 роки тому +1

    Enjoy the videos mucho. Just made a chicken tractor. So far so good, but yes not happy with the laying situation I hear this a lot now

  • @maryakhan1111
    @maryakhan1111 9 років тому +22

    What does it mean when my chickens are standing on the window sill from outside, and staring at us... Is it that they are hungry? Do they want to play?

    • @ChickenGeak
      @ChickenGeak 9 років тому +9

      +Marya Khan Mine do the same :D They even peck the window to get our attention if we're not looking at them

    • @maryakhan1111
      @maryakhan1111 9 років тому +4

      RasberrySoda1 Haha same here!

    • @susansaxe2581
      @susansaxe2581 8 років тому +9

      +Marya Khan Mine come to the door and stare. I'm quite sure it's because that is where all the good treats come from and they are both curious and greedy.

    • @waltersobchak7275
      @waltersobchak7275 8 років тому +8

      Chickens are nosy as f#$k!!! They got to know what's going down, all the details. If I get out of eyeshot of mine, but they can still hear me, they start growling and pacing.

    • @suhailburmi9423
      @suhailburmi9423 7 років тому +8

      They're as curious about us as we are about them.

  • @cassieteo5847
    @cassieteo5847 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks for sharing. Learn so much . Just found your channel.

  • @whyturtleracer
    @whyturtleracer 8 років тому +4

    nice low key video showing chicken behaviors, What breed of chicken are raising? Congratulations

  • @33bien
    @33bien 6 років тому +2

    She wants to nest and have baby chicks away of the crowd, whats strange about that?
    You can encourage her natural instincts if the eggs are fertilized.
    Once I was looking after two small dessert rats for my neighbour. They told me that they kept straw and everything on top of the feeding tray to hide it from "thieves and vilains!"
    That was the exact words.
    I told my neighbour what they'd told me and she looked at me in a funny way saying: "I was so angry with them because they litter their food tray with all rubish, now I know why they do this ..." :)

  • @BhikshuniLozangTrinlae
    @BhikshuniLozangTrinlae 7 років тому +2

    Great video! Including more "animal quality of life/psychology" perspectives will imo make vids much more popular and thereby get the deeper lifestyle eco message out far and wide at a faster pace. Great work!

  • @Gabrielluna90
    @Gabrielluna90 4 роки тому

    I like some of those chickens in the coop. I see some that are more thin as apposed to the farm bred chickens, such as the Rhode Islands, Leghorns, Sexlinks, etc. etc. Those you got there are what some breed with the so-called "gamefowl." Very nice.

  • @pinkipixle
    @pinkipixle 4 роки тому +4

    I started watching this video and my chicken was making the same noise 😂

  • @Euroflounder
    @Euroflounder 3 роки тому +2

    How did she lay two different eggs?

  • @Simon_Gray
    @Simon_Gray 3 роки тому

    My chicken was doing the same thing today, I let her out and followed her like in your video. It turns out she was laying eggs in the neighbours yard. I found 8 eggs! I guess she's being doing it every day while I've been at work.

  • @bredan87
    @bredan87 2 роки тому

    This is my first time having chickens. I have 2 full grown chickens and we bought 6 more baby chicks. I put them out in a runner bc it was a pretty day. They are 5 weeks old. They will being staying out on their own soon but I wanted them to be big enough that our other chickens wouldn’t hurt them. Well our 2 full grown chickens saw the baby chicks and they kept making this exact sound. I didn’t know why. So maybe unhappiness? Or they just wanted in the cage with the baby chicks? I’m not sure

  • @ameonna8810
    @ameonna8810 7 років тому +5

    Awww this was so cute!!

  • @smartin8247
    @smartin8247 7 років тому

    That hen is broody. She laid her eggs away from the coop so that they don't get taken away. She made herself a nest in the shed where it is darkish and undisturbed (from her perspective). The kind thing to do would be to get a small clutch of fertilised eggs and let her hatch them out - more chickens for you and the pot!

  • @masuganut2082
    @masuganut2082 4 роки тому +1

    I was hoping for more on different sounds because well, I can make chicken sounds that make our hens take notice but I want to give them the right signals. Especially to our new chicks we just bought. You see, I’ve had chickens for over twenty years and I just received a chick with a deformity I had never seen. Scissor beak. I’m trying to get her comfortable with me so I can take care of her properly as she grows, so any help with what I could do would be greatly appreciated.

  • @IandiBoats
    @IandiBoats 4 роки тому +1

    Around what age do chicks start sounding like chickens? I've got 5 week old buff orpingtons and buckeyes and they still sound like chicks, even though they're getting pretty big.

    • @IandiBoats
      @IandiBoats 4 роки тому +1

      Well I answered my own question. They started making chicken noises around 10 to 12 weeks old.

  • @scanipoos
    @scanipoos 6 років тому

    My experience of hens I’ve 3 now but years ago had 60, Warrens endicott, blackleghorns , white leghorns. And bantam and I found they let where they want

  • @anonz975
    @anonz975 4 роки тому

    Did that black hen eventually go broody? Looked like she was hiding her eggs in preparation for sitting/hatching them (which is what they do in the wild, plus it ensures all the eggs start incubating at the same time and hatch at the same time.

  • @free2tingleasmr918
    @free2tingleasmr918 4 роки тому

    please help. my hen has been making this noise for a couple of weeks now. they are wild chickens so there is no 'coop' to let her out of. she has played eggs successfully before and all the other hens have layed recently.

    • @mondopinion3777
      @mondopinion3777 4 роки тому

      she is saying "I want . . " but it could be even that she wants outside or something else.

  • @alisalauzon9291
    @alisalauzon9291 6 років тому

    Black Betty wants some space !! She's so cute! Tip toeing across the grass! She finds a peaceful spot! Woa!! Did she lay 2 colored of eggs??!!! COOL !!!

  • @GoinGameCrazy
    @GoinGameCrazy 7 років тому +5

    Is it normal for a rooster to be as big as a small dog, and also is it normal to be nicer than most of my hens?

  • @weview2795
    @weview2795 4 роки тому

    Now I know why my chickens make that noise. thanks!

  • @robkunkel8833
    @robkunkel8833 4 роки тому

    So, the other ones did not want to go out of the coop because they were well fed? Is it true that almost everything the chicken thinks about (and speaks about) is eating or addressing predator issues? What else do they think about, if anything? I am faced with wild chickens from a neighbor who no longer could care for them. There is difficult terrain between us and the chickens take advantage of this fact.

    • @mondopinion3777
      @mondopinion3777 4 роки тому

      Chickens are social animals, with all the complexities that entails. Plus they have been surviving in symbiotic relationship with humans for thousands of years, and have made remarkable adaptations. Their little vocalizations are almost constant (unlike most wild fowl) and are quite pleasant to human ears -- That is, except for alarm calls and roosters' crows. How many mornings in the past, around the world, has the flock been fed, or released to forage, because loud Mr. Roo woke the lazy human from its bed ?

  • @pencey
    @pencey 3 роки тому

    2 of mine are making that noise but none of them have laid eggs yet... could it mean something different? Like they want out just because and not to lay eggs? lol

  • @jonathanleach1050
    @jonathanleach1050 6 років тому

    My Wyandotte has been sequestered with her two chicks for two weeks, but visible to the rest of the flock. I noticed today that her romp/back feathers and some lower neck feathers had come off or pulled out???? What is going on???

  • @ashtherealqueen
    @ashtherealqueen 5 років тому

    Are those wood chips on the ground? I have my hens on marbled floor. I hose it down daily and let them out weekly so they can scratch around in our garden but they make an awful lot of mess...

  • @sheisntreal0_090
    @sheisntreal0_090 5 років тому +1

    Awwe, she's a cute chickie! 🐔

    • @leamorvallescas
      @leamorvallescas 5 років тому

      *chicken* and awwe means you a hurt awwwwwwwww means its SO CUTE*chicken* and awwe means you a hurt awwwwwwwww means its SO CUTE

    • @leamorvallescas
      @leamorvallescas 5 років тому

      And NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI NANI

  • @rhondamontiel3827
    @rhondamontiel3827 7 років тому

    I had a Buff Orpington who just whined all day a few days ago. she was red in the face and keeping somewhat to herself. I thought that she was getting ready to lay her first egg or was possibly egg bound. she was getting picked on a bit from some of the roosters while she was doing this whining. I have not yet seen any eggs (all my birds are getting close to laying in a month or so) but she did seem to be over it by the next day. any ideas what it was all about. they are all free ranged birds

  • @enriqueabautistab8632
    @enriqueabautistab8632 7 років тому +2

    This will be useful, I have a little bantam chicken as pet.

    • @ompk142
      @ompk142 6 років тому

      Enrique A Bautista B
      Do you put pamper on ...

  • @RR-vg5hg
    @RR-vg5hg 5 років тому

    Nice garden

  • @user-pj5ju9sm5r
    @user-pj5ju9sm5r 5 років тому

    Random chicken came to my backyard and only stays there at night. Gone by the day. When it sees me at night it makes this light growling sounds. Kinda high pitched. Any idea?

    • @mondopinion3777
      @mondopinion3777 4 роки тому

      It is a sound they make when disturbed but not really alarmed. Mature members of a flock make a similar sound when youngsters are jostling on the roost in the evening -- it drawls down to a lower key and means "quiet down."

  • @happilymarried3380
    @happilymarried3380 8 років тому

    can u tell me what the noises they make mean when ur chickens make the noises my brothers chickens make different noises and im curious
    how can u tell when they want to lay an egg and how long will it take to hatch

  • @Squirell2_2
    @Squirell2_2 6 років тому

    She's like hey, wtf dude? Upper perch nests would be nice

  • @KarenMilfeld
    @KarenMilfeld 8 років тому

    Thanks for the great video! How did you first figure out that's what that noise meant?

    • @plantabundance
      @plantabundance  8 років тому +2

      Permaculture design principle # 1 "Observe and interact". Cheers!

  • @TheRealUnknown01
    @TheRealUnknown01 4 роки тому

    how did she have 2 different coloured eggs? i thought a chicken could only lay one color, not either or. interesting

  • @baja5000
    @baja5000 7 років тому

    What chicken comes around the fence at 1:00 they have the light colored breast and a red head.

  • @saltybildo9448
    @saltybildo9448 26 днів тому

    Chickens are cool I was given 2 bantam roosters and one hen and they free range, then disappeared and comes back a couple times a day ,she on eggs somewhere but hell if I know where lol

  • @phil-newman
    @phil-newman 3 роки тому

    that's called an egg song they do that when they lay an egg

  • @metalmech583
    @metalmech583 8 років тому

    Hey man can you help me out? I have 8 cinnamon queen chickens at the moment. They are sex linked and from what I've read males are white and females are brown in this particular hybrid. Now, I thought I had bought 8 pullets, but one of the chicks had a considerably larger comb and waddle than the rest. It is also very dominant and has attempted to "mount" the other pullets.
    Mind you they are only 7 weeks old! So my question is, is it possible its a female with a damaged ovary and is getting extra testosterone?

  • @PetiteLicorne
    @PetiteLicorne 6 років тому

    What breed are they?

  • @Olguini
    @Olguini 6 років тому

    Plant Abundance
    Are you vegetarian?

  • @fabadila
    @fabadila 8 років тому +1

    haha when i was young i had chicken as pet and i've known some of their behaviour including that noise sound

  • @cityslickerchickens5835
    @cityslickerchickens5835 3 роки тому

    She is laying eggs in a safe place, lol

  • @redtre125
    @redtre125 4 роки тому

    I think its amazing

  • @peterdel3307
    @peterdel3307 8 років тому

    chickens are so cool

  • @AnnyaMoon
    @AnnyaMoon 8 років тому

    Oh this is good to know.

  • @redgaminguk9781
    @redgaminguk9781 9 років тому

    nice video dude!

  • @anamateuranimator1715
    @anamateuranimator1715 4 роки тому +1

    once i put my hand out wide they go in the coup with EZ BOI

    • @mondopinion3777
      @mondopinion3777 4 роки тому

      I do the wide arm thing too, and they respond. Plus I make a scratchy sound with the bottom of my tongue against my teeth, and they go away from that without being really alarmed ...

  • @prozeeterps
    @prozeeterps 3 роки тому

    its the same as humans i honestly hate chickens but i hate it more if theyre in too small coops i finally managed to break open one today with permission on a farm with disabled people i am too.., i still need to make some coves for if some hawk wans to fly in chicken panic makes me panic and my head starts spinning oof

  • @mackenzierynebagtong8549
    @mackenzierynebagtong8549 6 років тому

    Same as my neighbour.

  • @kimber45ish
    @kimber45ish 5 років тому

    Why didn't she fly out?

  • @Jahrenii
    @Jahrenii 4 роки тому

    Nice

  • @waimuncheah9863
    @waimuncheah9863 5 років тому

    Chicken whisperer.

  • @fernandogranados5868
    @fernandogranados5868 4 роки тому +1

    Chicken🐔🐔🐔🐔

  • @eimeria.6815
    @eimeria.6815 4 роки тому

    Philippine Actress Sarah Geronimo

  • @johnwadsworth7086
    @johnwadsworth7086 8 років тому

    cool

  • @darkfang1427
    @darkfang1427 8 років тому

    what is wrong with your chickens?! lol they look soo different to my brown shavers

  • @vishalverma-dx5xz
    @vishalverma-dx5xz 6 років тому

    sabki priya murgi kirti

  • @anamateuranimator1715
    @anamateuranimator1715 4 роки тому

    my biggest chicken IS a black one XD

  • @Searchbird
    @Searchbird 5 років тому +1

    Aoustalorp!

  • @fxghci323
    @fxghci323 6 років тому

    They want lay eggs

  • @supertna9154
    @supertna9154 6 років тому

    This is not I want to watch