Chicken Language Part 1 Understanding Vocal/Body Language for Problem Solving.
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2016
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Si podemos tratar de entender lo que nuestros pájaros nos están diciendo o entre ellos, entonces no solo podemos ayudarlos a resolver problemas potenciales, sino también aprender mucho de sus conversaciones. ¿Por qué nuestra madre gallina sí misma lanzarse en nuestra puerta trasera? Se discuten esto y mucho más en la película y con más detalle en mi blog: holistic-hen.blogspot.fr/2016/...
Si nous pouvons essayer de comprendre ce que nos oiseaux nous disent ou se disent, nous pouvons non seulement les aider à résoudre des problèmes potentiels, mais aussi apprendre beaucoup de leurs conversations. Pourquoi notre mère poule se jeter à notre porte? Nous discutons cela et plus encore dans le film et en détail dans mon blog: holistic-hen.blogspot.fr/2016/... - Навчання та стиль
I love how the mother hen is completely calm about you handling her chicks
Hi there, She is a lovely bird and a great mother. She's broody at the moment, sitting on an old china tureen handle that is shaped like an egg. She seems happy just to sit and as we are having a lot of heavy rain, she's in the best possible place - a good dry coop! All the very best, Sue xx
chickens are so smart, she knew you would help her with her dilemma, her knocking on the window made me laugh boy she wanted your attention and got it. my dream is to live on a place like you do, your so very lucky to live as you do.
Hi Pamela, lovely to hear from you. Yes she is one clever hen, she was actually in here laying whilst I was making the film as she knocked on the window again. She is already going broody too, I saw and heard her later this afternoon, clucking as she was searching around in the undergrowth.
I am sure you will get a place. Here was a real ruin but you can do amazing things with roses and so many of the trees we grew from seed or grafted. We found this place totally by a fluke, it was a printing error in a farming magazine which led us to it! All the very best, Sue
+Pavlovafowl - no way was that a fluke, it's karma because of all the good you do for the birds and for teaching others what you know 😁
Aaww Pam that is so kind. I believe in karma and I meet examples of it all the time. I am so happy to read of more and more people returning to the land and finding a great new life. It is like a reverse Industrial Revolution and long may it continue to give people the happiness and freedom they deserve. All the very best from a rather (very) rainy Normandie, Sue (sitting typing here in a Winter jumper!)
THATS A BEAUTIFUL YARD!!!
Thank you!!!! All the very best, Sue
Isn't it beautiful? The camellias, in particular, seem to love the improving effect the chickens have on the soil.
My chickens always let out a long “Baaaaaaw” when they see me. It’s like a wave. Lol. I usually talk to them out loud and they’ll calm down and sometimes cluck back. Usually letting them free range helps them calm down.
Hi Holly, You may find that you need to wear the same clothes when you go out to your chickens and in particular, I find they hate patterns on fabrics and also they really don't like loose clothes that flap about. I think they see patterns in a different way than we do and perhaps their eyes form outlines that look like predators, in particular birds of prey. They obviously recognise your voice so it is probably you appearance that changes. I have articles to go with these films if you are interested: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/p/behaviour.html#.XYzA1Fcv6V4 All the very best and thanks so much for your comments, they are appreciated, Sue
Ok Sue, you truly are the Chicken Whisperer!!! 😉😁
BRILLIANT !! Oh my gosh... there's nothing like your videos on the internet and I'm so grateful for your insightful content. I hope you never stop making films. Thank you SO MUCH!
Thank-you so much for your comments, I can't tell you how timely they are and how much I appreciate them! It has taken me so many hours to edit this film due to my usually trusty OpenShot video editor continually crashing on me. I am really happy to get such great feedback, as, although my films do help me to recall what I have experienced and we also really enjoy making them, I do also hope they are of interest and use to others. Have a wonderful rest of the day and all the very best, Sue
agreed. Hardly anyone has a system set up like they do. So glad I found their channel!
We are so happy you found us! Andy and I both appreciate the great comments we get. It really does make us happy that people enjoy what we try to do. All the very best from a very rainy Normandie, Sue
Your garden is so beautiful.. it’s like a fantasy. Chickens must be really happy :)
Aaww thank you for your lovely comment and I am so sorry it took me so long to find it! All the very best from Normandie, Sue
'CrAzY...' lol
Loved this, going to check out your blog. Seeing the baby chicks really made me miss when mine were just a couple days old.
Hi Queenie. Thank you so much for your lovely comments - they are very much appreciated. I actually have just had two more hatches in the garden this week! However, I can't upload any more films at the moment as my internet is at so poor a speed that I can't even get into the UA-cam Creator Studio to use the upload tool. Apparently, according to my provider, this is about to be resolved!
I really hope you get some more chicks soon, I found it such a wonderful experience observing mothers and chicks, I learn something new every time about their care for and relationships with each other. Every individual chick and of course the mother hen, has a unique personality , so no hatch is ever the same. You might also like my film and article on Co-parenting, which shows the way in which birds adapt to bring up their chicks together. I also have a film called 'Food of Love which shows mothers and chicks and their relationship and behaviour around giving and receiving food, which I found fascinating to observe. All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx
Hen: i need the human to solve my problem!
*throws self at the door*
Why buy a dog and bark yourself! My hen keeps me not the other way around - that's why my site has the rubric 'Organic Poultry - why would they want to live with you?' She knows where her box is and knows being in it will keep her chicks safe whilst she lays. Plus, our poultry give the garden a whole new dimension, as well as provide valuable eggs and they rightly expect a return. All the very best from Normandie, Sue
Yes I've been looking for this video for like three years I love your channel I'm so happy I found it thank you so much for making it!!!
Hi there, I'm so happy you found it too! I love hearing from people who are interested in exploring the oft ignored side of poultry behaviour. I have written articles to accompany the films on this topic and you can find them here: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/p/behaviour.html#.X_RBjnfk-V4 I also have a whole playlist for these films here on the channel too. As a further note, I am just about to write an article and edit a new film in this series: 'The Food of Love' - it explores how poultry express their love of good food but also how they use it as an expression of love. All the very best and thank you so much for your kind words, they are most appreciated, Sue
I love when my chickens give me an egg. I feel so honored. I always thank them when I pick up their eggs! 🥰
Hi there, so do I and you are so right, it is an honour! After all that is not their intention, they want it to hatch - one year we had our cousin to visit with his children and although they loved collecting and eating the eggs they wanted so much to leave them to turn into chicks. That Summer by design we had a population explosion but I have to say that raising chicks is addictive and on a similar note, when I am present, I always welcome them into the World - it is a process that never ceases to amaze me. We are surrounded by such amazing experiences right in our back yards. All the very best from Normandie, Sue
Good video. The chicks are sooo tame! Every time a broody raises chicks here they are wild as heck.
Hi there and sorry I only just found your comment and thanks for them! When I get a hen laying and raising chicks outdoors in the forest garden, they do initially treat me as an imposter because they have been at the mercy of whatever is roaming around the garden at night and this included hedgehogs who are voracious egg eaters. Usually however, after a day or so back with me indoors they do calm down and remember I can be trusted. That's all it is really, trust and there are things you can do to build this up - in fact I am in the process of putting a film together about this because each hen is different and there are strategies I use to gain trust that might be helpful, so watch this space. However in the meantime, I suggests that food is a really good starter, both for the mother, who is always hungry and to help provide for the chicks - just don't offer food to the chicks directly because a broody hen can be extremely jealous and if you have a bonded pair with a rooster doubly beware because they can be even worse as they regard foraging as their job. Hope this helps and all the very best from Normandie, Sue
I agree with your findings/conclusions on the chicken calls. I have found the long, loud 'cawing' sound to be related to waiting for a box or feeling anxious about something. I believe my chickens do this call when they want to go outside into a fresh pasture or the big garden--unlike with laying they are targeting me as the recipient of the call. Great, thought provoking video! :D I love seeing all your beautiful chickens and garden, and seeing all these creatures treated with such care and love.
Aaww thanks Laura for your great comments. There is so much to learn, for example today I thought one of my hens had gone broody as she was making the usual broody noise but she actually wanted me to open the outbuilding door so she could go in to lay. I wondered if she was using this 'phrasing' by mistake or because it is actually interchangeable or because she really is beginning to go broody but she was certainly communicating she wanted that door opening! I have recorded a whole load more vocalisations and am still doing so, so hopefully will get more out soon. I also have further and more detailed information on my accompanying blog articles. All the very best, Sue
You're very welcome. Thank you for the great video! :) That is a peculiar situation and I can think of barely any times it occurred to me. :0 I think I heard some of my old girls making a brooding noise--perhaps more a lower version than what might be applied to chicks--when they were in the nesting box, like they were content or wanted me to pet them. I completely agree, there is some noises that I hear out of context every once in a blue moon and wonder if it's possible for chickens to 'lie'. Mostly this is regarding my rooster making warning whistles or growls when there is no danger present. I look forward to all your lovely videos, Sue, thank you! :D
I found your channel due to that baby jackdaw and ducklings hurray! I know that chicken talking like she is about to lay an egg. I used to look after my mom’s chicken many years ago. Thank you for all videos. I love them!
Hi there and thanks for your lovely comments they are appreciated! I will be making more films on this subject, including the egg laying sounds and also the mother hen talking to her chicks when they are just going to sleep to calm them down, which is like purring! All the very best and so happy you like my videos - you made my day! Sue
Sue the chicken whisperer. Very interesting.
Hi Dale, Naw I talk out loud to chickens, I don't care who knows it! I was reading that the language patterns of birds are very similar to those humans, in fact I think that they are the nearest to ours of all those in the animal kingdom, so I guess we ought to be able to understand each other. I find the Sebrights the most chatty and the Cochins the least vocal, except when broody, have you noticed the same? My Sebright chicks used to talk in their sleep and some of the adults too! All the very best and thanks for commenting, Sue
Yes I only have one Sebright and she is very talkative and bossy. Two of my Cochins are broody right now and some days they are in different nests and other days I go out and they are keeping each other company in the same nest.
I loved this video. Sooo insightful! Thank you!
You are so welcome and thank you for your kind comments, they are appreciated. There are written versions to go with this series too: Here is the link to the contents page for my behaviour and speech articles: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/p/behaviour.html#.XSH9vxcv6V4 Hope you find them interesting and all the very best from Normandie, Sue
Great video! Thank you so much and keep it coming. I have decoded some chicken words and that’s how I got interested in this subject. Brrrrreeee done loudly is the sound for Areal danger and done softly is for let’s go to sleep
Hi there and thank you so much for your kind words! You may be interested in the written articles on this topic, which go into far more detail: here is the link to the contents page that deal with my written work on chicken behaviour and speech: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/p/behaviour.html#.YAq9IHfk-V4 All the very best, Sue
@@Pavlovafowl woooooiioow!!!! Thank you 🙏🏼
How delightful, such a good mother hen (human and fowl!)
I have a singular indoor hen and I played this for her as she is lonely.
Hi Sam - That is so sweet. I once had an injured moor hen brought to me and I could not get her to eat until I played her a video of moor hens feeding on a lake! I actually made mp3 files of many of the sounds on this video and they are on my site here: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2016/06/if-i-could-talk-to-birds-part-2.html#.YC8R-WDk-V5 I am also just uploading another film in this series which contains many many clips of chicken language for courtship and parental feeding - I think your hen will find it most interesting. I know as I was editing it my oldest hen and youngest chick, who I have in the house to sleep in a cardboard box at night because it is so cold outside - they were responding to the film! All the very best from Normandie and give your hen a big hug from me, Sue xx
Awww that was both cute and amazing
Thank you - I appreciate your kind comments! All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue
2:01 I have my own Plymouth and whenever she want to lay she makes that exact sound! She stands near a window or clear door and screams until we let her in to make her egg
Our hens have us well trained! We had a bad storm last night and I have some of my hens who roost in a large bay tree. As the wind was from the South the tree was protected by the house, so we didn't worry but at midnight there came a loud tapping on the kitchen window - it was a hen demanding to be let in as she had either been blown from the tree or, more likely, had decided she would rather be in the coop! All the very best, Sue
Adorable ladies - including you mam !
Hi there, That is a lovely comment, I appreciate it! All the very best from a rather cloudy Normandie, Sue
how do you get the birds to enjoy/let you pick them up like that and hold htem?
Hi Rose, most of them have hatched here, so they learn to trust me and we form a bond from being chicks but even if I get them as adults, I still try to create, from day one, a sense that they can trust me. I have a 'taming chicken' video, which is included in a recent film about taming a duck, in which I go through ideas building trust, here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/rwGJOizD824/v-deo.html Hope you find it useful and all the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue
My chickens love to be held. They cuddle with me at night lol I have a rooster who'll peck at you all day if you try and pick him up. We call him Rick the D!ck 🤣 we love him so much though. He's awesome.
Best thing to do is to gain their trust. Hand feeding is the best way to go, and the chick will always come to you
2:00 She is calling you. My chicken used to do this when she wanted to be let out of the basement in the mornings.
i have seen some of your quail videos and i was wondering what age did your quails start laying because I have quails and they aren't laying.
Hi Eliza, I never really took much notice of the age they began to lay but organically raised, home-made/foraged feed ones, do start later than quail on a commercial mix. The most important thing for me was getting their feed right and making sure they had available whatever they needed for an optimum diet. I installed a compost bin of pre-rotted compost in their run, it was full of invertebrates and became a sort of self-service restaurant they could go to and eat at any time. I found that as mine are in a large space and also because they had been taught to forage by their mother hen, they reverted to a wild quail rhythm of life and others who raise them in the same way tell me their quail do too. So they seem to only eat a quantity of invertebrate protein when they are laying i.e. between March and September/October, plus they need the correct amount of Vitamin A. This is stored in the liver of the quail and made, in the case of foraging quail from the precursor beta-carotene, so plenty of greenery and grated vegetables such as carrots! Again the quail need to have this freely available and choose themselves what to eat. With regards to Vitamin A I have read an academic paper that postulates the Vitamin A needed for laying is drawn from that stored from the previous year's intake of food. I'm not sure about all the implications of this but it could mean the chicks in their egg are drawing on the Vitamin levels their Mother will have provided and if this is deficient then they may not lay until they have topped up their own levels. Laying is a very complicated process but once you get the balance of the foods right, not forgetting Vitamin D3 from direct UVB sunlight, then it becomes easy. The other thing I find very much involved in my quail's laying and nesting process, is the call of the male quail. This works both ways, the male calls when the females are ready to lay and in turn this call seems to encourage them to make nests. It is not a difficult process to get the nutritional levels for laying in place, you just need to supply a varied and nutritious (and wild) diet and let the quail do the rest - after all they know more about what they need than anyone else does! I will be writing a blog post on the food I offer my quail but in the meantime I already included information about nutrition in this post: holistic-hen.blogspot.fr/2015/05/one-of-my-coturnix-quail-has-gone.html#.V3jrx-2li1F Hope this helps and all the best, Sue
great video. our wild laying hen is constantly making that noise. I don't know what to do for her. she has two different aged babies following her around so this is probably why. (makes sense - thanks )
Hi yes it is a 'questioning' sound, slightly worried, looking for something - it is usually at the outset of the search for a perfect nest site but if it becomes higher and more staccato, then I usually associate that with a conflict of some sort. Hens tend to make that noise here, when they are getting angry and about to fight! All the very best and hope you enjoy more in this series, I don't know if you've seen this one: ua-cam.com/video/Svrw3b_0p1Q/v-deo.html that might be of interest and there are more films to come. All the very best form Normandie, Sue
Dear Pavlova, how do you manage to raise such beautiful chickens while knowing that someday you'll put them down to be used as food? I personally love animals and want to have chickens someday buy I don't know if I have it in me to kill a beautiful bird that I have raised.
Hi Leonardo, We don't eat the chickens, we eat the eggs. However, on very rare occasions we do eat a cockerel/rooster but this is only if they are causing trouble and disharmony in the flock. Aggressive males get a year to sort themselves out and I have strategies in place so they can not do harm to the hens. If they continue to cause trouble after this period then they have to go because they can cause physical and mental harm and even fatalities. Within the forest garden most of my birds pair off, so they do not exhibit the usual captive behaviour of males, which can be very aggressive, as they can form what are essentially gangs and pick on one hen. I have a written piece on this topic here: holistic-hen.blogspot.fr/2015/12/forest-garden-dynamics-2-monogamy.html#.V1_fvO2li1F However, now and again we do get these problems and my father, who was a farmer, taught Andy how to do this with maximum speed, the rooster knows nothing about it and certainly no other bird sees it happen. It is a dilemma but it is a rare occurrence and as the garden progresses, with each year the birds become more and more harmonious in the way they live. Andy certainly hates doing it, any one would but if you create the right environment the birds, in turn, create their own natural dynamic and lifestyle, which is in fact very well regulated. It is mankind who first took birds from the trees to fight for sport, not to lay eggs and this aggression was selectively bred into them for centuries. It is not a natural way for them to behave, their 'fights' as such, are ritualistic and to do with hierarchy and courtship. Hope this answers your question and you can keep chickens just for the joy of their presence and the extra dimension they add to a garden, Pavlovafowl aka Sue
Dear Sue, thank you for sharing the info. With that said, how is it that you manage to sustain a vegetable forest and all your pets including the chickens when you solely use the chicken for the eggs? I figure that there most be some sort of revenue coming in from these two things. I bring this up because I would very much like to have a mini farm like yours here in Florida, USA
Leonardo that is a really good question. We always looked at what we spent and we cut that right down. However, we still do have bills, though eventually we will need to move to a bigger piece of land to get rid of all but two, viz.local tax (rates) and insurance (which like death are unavoidable) (it is illegal here not to have insurance). The main expense in the Northern climes is usually heating, ours is all free because we use untreated pallet wood which is plentiful but I'm guessing that won't be a problem in Florida. You can sell a few birds now and again and hatching eggs, organically raised ones are quite recherché so are broody hens! The main thing however, is to be so self-sufficient that you don't need to spend much money and there are so many free things in the World, sadly because so many people are so wasteful. A really important thing is to not have debt. We sold up in 2000 and 'down-sized' so no mortgage and we never had credit cards. That way you need very little to live on and the most important item is food and we eat very well, 100% organic, which I guess puts us up there with the billionaires of this planet! If you build into that a good community, where you can do swaps, so like our reciprocal homesteading where we look after neighbours' animals and then they look after ours. I am sure however you can turn even a mini farm into a paying business because the majority of the food sold in most countries is really poor, apart from being picked, raised and transformed hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away and finally people are beginning to understand that this has an impact on health and quality of life. I think you just have to go for it and maybe even see if you can't farm what you already have because even a small piece of land on a food forest system can feed you and others. Good Luck and all the very best, Sue
Hi Sue, I really like your answers and I’m learning some new stuff too.