Marla announcing her egg laying

[Goodwillwin1]

Do they lay a lot of eggs year round? I am searching for chickens to breed & lay eggs for eating? Do you recommend this breed?



[MkMartin05]

Sounds like my wife whenever she is on the phone with her friends.

[1608HH]

this made me laugh, sounded just like one of mine who was very loud and proud when she laid an egg!! Its just a shame the neighbours weren't as thrilled as in the summer it was about 7am she would start her 5 minute "i've laid, oi human I've laid you an egg, quick come get it, it's here" scream every morning!! God love chickens they have such a personality!!

[voiceofelijah2012]

If I pushed out something the size of a ping pong ball out of an opening the size of a button, I'd be clucking and whooping it up too.

[Megashovelman]

Anorexic Chicken, my favorite!

[giratinarceus]

I had a white leghorn, and every time a chicken was sitting down going to lay an egg, then it would do that song. When it's laying and egg and a chicken gets too close to it, it would screech even though the eggs aren't fertilized.

[Leonkenndyfan1]

chickens are funny how they are make the baking noises lol XD

[ZeldaMario5]

that's exactly what our chickens do when they lay eggs! :) they are very proud.

[ralbiruni]

Un grand baiser à votre poule de la part de Julie, Blanchette, Vulture, qui sont les trois poules de mon jardin! J'ai planté mes salades dans le poulaier et mis mes poules au jardin. Julie a douze ans, elle ponds encore des oeufs énormes de temps en temps. Félicitation pour votre respect des galinacés!

[79drumstick]

Is she a leghorn?



[njj1978]

@recruitmentch I've kept chickens for years and still do, and some of them do make this call when they have laid an egg. Its certainly not distress, the noises made when a chook is in distress are totally different; if you've had chickens for as long as you say perhaps you should try listening to them?

[Liuhuayue]

Do chickens always cluck after they lay eggs?

[SammyisKINGlol]

It looks like she has scaly leg mites I hope you treated them :(

[catnipmouse]

@SammyisKINGlol yes, she had leg mites when I rescued her from abusive home. Sadly once it deforms the legs they never look normal again.

[BiohazardBunney]

All birds are so cool.

[recruitmentch]

mate that chicken is in distress. you can clearly see she is trying to jump off, but feels she is too high up. mine do the same. i have had chickens since i was 8 and i have never witnessed them doing them after laying eggs. they usually make these sounds when in distress.

[TheMuffinBurgler]

@recruitmentch I've had chickens my whole life as well, and mine DO make this call after laying eggs. It has nothing to do with being distressed, she's just proud she popped one out.

[omgwat100]

My three chicken always do that right by my window

[mark01318]

My chickens do this at 6 in the morning :S luckly no one complained

[N6600]

Marla: "Friends, hens, roosters, and all! May I have your undivided attention, please! The long wait is over! Let it be known that on this day, I HAVE LAID AN EGG!!! Let the jubilation begin!!"

:) Just my thought on what she may have announced.

[hugh705]

thats a male though you can tell by the waddle

[catnipmouse]

@hugh705 no it is not a rooster, that is a hen, some breeds of chickens have different style of combs.

[GenericOverusedName]

Sounds like hiccuping to me, haha. (Can birds even hiccup?)

[dorourke105]

She needs a lozenge

[tall32guy]

@dorourke105 That is her noise, that is just how chickens are. But yes if maybe there a lozenge she can be given that would help her lay more eggs! hehe

[Sassasinger]

yay she has a bad case of curly toes. you must help her it is very painful!!!!one way i heard of fixing it is if you tie popsicle sticks to her toes so they straighten or just take her to the vet.

[wallie356]

lol my chicken Did that i dont know why... o_O

[narukofan2]

"Why did the chicken cross the road?"

Because the chicken wanted to kick you're ass.

[Lisarata]

"That's right! Mama just got it done!"

[BloodyBay]

You mentioned that Marla was a rescue, though. Did something happen to her feet? Her toes look like they've been pretty bent up or mangled by something. Or is it just the viewing angle? :-/

[SaberCattleya]

@BloodyBay It looks like scaly leg mite, I had a rescue rooster years ago with the same problem. It get really gnarly in advanced stages and the toes can curl or even fall off. :(

[BloodyBay]

Yeah, I love it when my hens make this noise. It means I'll be grabbing my egg basket when I head out to the chicken run that evening. :)

It's even funnier listening to a hen chatter back and forth with our Alpha rooster BEFORE she goes to the nesting boxes. "Okay, I'm going to lay an egg now. Is that all right?" "Yeah, go ahead." "You're sure?" "I said yes! I'm on guard duty." "You promise it's okay?" "Look, nothing's going to eat you while you're laying your egg! Just do it!"

[idiotindisguise]

fake

[NoobsAreUsh]

I bet it's just screaming "OW MY BUTT OW MY BUTT OW MY BUTT"

[Lotus201877]

i had a pet rooster named Rocky....everytime i yelled his name, he would come running while beating his wings 2gether. He would also let me pet him, hug him, and pick him up. Man, i miss my baby rooster :'(

[wildcaza21]

I know this was ages ago but that hen looks like she has scale mites in her legs.

[Michaela7071]

10 people are roosters that dont understand the pain of laying

[FiestyCat86]

DUDE!! COME CHECK THIS CRAP OUT...I just laid a doosey!!

[leela194]

Chickens are my favorite animals and I would never eat them. They make really good pets.

[Duvmasta]

My mom's name is Marla!

[MrFuckMetal]

she's hot!

[Arckra]

Judging by her color, she was a great layer. There's hardly any yellow in her shanks at all. Wonderful.

[wildwagon]

you should be proud of the lovly eggs shes giving! she is a beutiful hen! thank you for putting up this video!

[angeldoxie1]

Her feet and shanks look odd. Does she have scaly leg mites?

[1HorseStar1]

@angeldoxie1 Yes, she did. She was a rescue and came that way, the poor thing.

[angeldoxie1]

@1HorseStar1 Ah ok. My silkie had scaly leg mites, we bought her from an animal auction.

[unt214diva]

aww I miss my Tweety, she used to lay eggs in the most random of places.

[mattz456]

And the egg was like "I just got laid bitches!"

[cirstyaace]

p.s

chickens are well shit.

[cirstyaace]

HAHA :')

[jessmjfan989]

chicken's like : LISTEN UP EVERYONE!!!! I HAZ AN EGG!!!! 

[13GTC]

My chicken (Zebra) dose that all the time, ROFL!

[cluckyxlog]

Your lucky our white chickens just sit around and go coo... waiting for the food to roll in,not productive at all!We need to get some brown chickens.

[cowcreamer]

In my experience of tending chickens, this chicken is clucking in defense of her brood. The mother hens that I have seen that lay eggs sit quietly. Her feathers only get ruffled when there is an intruder in the coop.

[chickensandwich79]

The codfish lays 10,000 eggs

The homely hen lays one

But the hen cackles

To tell you what she's done

And so we scorn the codfish

But the homely hen we prize

That just goes to show you

It pays to advertise

(poem I learned in the 4th grade...)

[ilovelibertyTYC]

@chickensandwich79 Hehehe luv it

[MissSashaFierce1982]

do they always make that noise when they lay an egg? how long does that go on for? thinkin of gettin some!

[catnipmouse]

@MissSashaFierce1982 Not all of mine make an announcement but they do quite frequently. It never lasts more than 5 minutes so it's not too annoying to your neighbors. We love the sound!

[CowsAndCrows]

@catnipmouse kinda likea microwave which beeps telling you food is ready hehe, considering getting some egg layers myself, I am tired of eating the crap from the supermarket. never know where the eggs are from.

[tomsmith100]

@MissSashaFierce1982 We even have one Cream Legbar who will go in after another Hen has layed an egg, sit and warm that egg for a period of time, then come out and cluck cluck to the world she has layed it. Stealing the other birds thunder.

[supernotreallyme]

@MissSashaFierce1982 ive had chikens since march but ive only heard them do that 4 or 5 times and if you go out to see whats wrong they usally stop because you are more interresting than there egg

[LPSgirlSHK]

Ohhh, so that's why our hens do that sometimes! xD I thought soo.. I'm not a noob but I thought that's what it meant but I wasn't sure. :P

I always worry the dogs have got them when they do that. And yes, we have a good wire fence around them but I'm always afraid our dogs will dig under but aparently they can't because some of the wires are under and they're being good anyways. [: I wonder when our baby chicks that are almost chickens will be grown.

[lilblueguy]

Is that a California white? Oh by the way, she's beautiful, I can tell you take great care of her.

[zymmyiscool]

do chickens get hiccups?

[kfg70]

i hate it when our chickens do that

[MaxiBoOoY]

LMAO, OWNED.

[SirithHeruwen]

Gotta love those chickens :D

[mandolinslinger37]

Thanks for posting...she reminds me of one of my favorite hens (her name was Obedient) who also was a good layer!

[bcdude126]

omg i want to cuddle it

[Klottelitsch]

hehe shes nice!

[dragonlovergirl13]

She's adorable!!!! :D

[rocketman63]

It may be dumb, but I love chickens. I'm glad to see your hen has a nice, free life. My family only buys Nellie's Nest eggs because the hens roam freely and are only fed foods that are good for them.

[happymimi16]

This video makes me smile every time!

[henrytakeover]

LOL when my chicken lays an egg they say nothing, but one of my other chicken screams when another chicken lays an egg why?

[GWIvid]

same here.

[RocaWeaR4]

@henrytakeover Imma piss my pants that made me LOL

[emilytodd28]

I love how they do this, ours were the same and went on about it for hours. Althoughwith the size of the eggs, I supose its abit like giving birth everyday so they deserve to crow off abit.

[hokkyokukoukid]

hic, hic, hic, hic, hic, HICCUP!!!

[Jeeper1540]

My chickens make that sound when they lay eggs too!

[Stormclouds777]

I love this sound. My chickens do this too. Chicken sounds are very soothing...and sometimes comical! I love them!

[Machin396]

When my chickens lay eggs they do the same sound, it's similar to the alarm sound.

[Pyromaniac510]

That looks like a happy chicken.

[jjpeterson1]

I don't have anything against eating meat, it is the cruelty and confinement of the factory farms that make me mad.

[meghannn713]

Yes, CAFO animals are treated extremely creully. I think it is all right to butcher your own free range chickens, as long as they had a happy chicken life, not a life where their stomachs always hurt cause theyre fed only grain and no grass and bugs, and they are crowded and unhappy and standing in two iches of their own shit. I hate CAFO. and... whats up with that chicken's toes??

[bbphnix]

@jjpeterson1 well said;

persoanlly I'd like it if all the meat was grown by genetically engineered muscle cells: they would divide and grow in the lab enough to make food; that's how GM foods should really be like;

[TwinkleSpaceGirl]

Ya gooood chicken!!

[abba149]

Good chicken

[whaddat4]

What kind of hen is she? I've got some with curled toes like that and they're Sussex. Is it an anomaly??

[0999001]

chickens are funny

P.S

I like KFC

[cloudberry121]

She's just saying her cloacae really hurts after squeezing one through.

[rabidusuniversum]

I like her curly toes.

[beerasaurus]

SO that's what buck buck bagock means!

[supressorgrid]

"My ass hurts"?

[Zebrafinch18]

How long does she do that cause my hens do that for around ten minutes then they come out of the coop and then ill look inside and there will be an egg lol

[Star3Light]

My cockerel likes to make that sound on occasion, I think he's gender confused.

[johnnybam902]

what a show-off

[tinnay]

Wow look at those croaked toes

[saturninenight]

She's "amping" on the endorphins from pushing that dang egg out!

[verticalsmurf]

Why do chickens announce when they lay an egg? Is it a pride think like ' hey, I just laid an egg!'? or is it more of a territory think like 'hey, I just laid an egg, so back off'?

[Blakblastoise]

@verticalsmeurf: Chickens make that sound when they lay eggs to ward off other chickens from going close to there. That noise is similar to their alarm when they get scared or they see danger. They try to fool other chickens into thinking there is something bad there, so they will avoid her nest. I can't say i'v read that in a book, or learned it in a class, but i have been raising chickens for about 80% of my life and i have observed a few things.

[verticalsmurf]

Cheers for the info. She is gorgeous.

[antionidept]

I've had that thought too, but this is a different call. I believe its a different call than the alarm call. When a chicken gives an alarm call usually the entire flock will follow and also start giving the call. This call however is usually only answered by the rooster. I think chickens are left behind from the flock when they lay an egg, and they give this call, to which the rooster replies, which would probably mean "here we are!" so she finds them...

[Blakblastoise]

I can't say you're wrong, since I've never had only one rooster, usually we have about 50+

However If the "where are you at" or "I am here" call is anything like the sound they make when trying to find their chicks, it's probably not the case. They might be totally different, as you seem to believe, since the hens are not addressing their chicks.

[antionidept]

I used to have 1 rooster with 12 hens and whenever they would lay an egg and make this sound ONLY the rooster would respond however when there was danger all of them would respond. I don't know for sure either. I may be wrong. They are amazing creatures though, probably the most abused and misunderstood too (sadly). I find them quite smart to be honest. =)

[spikeyfuentez]

@verticalsmurf : you know what, that question comes to my mind a lot of times whenever I hear them make that sound. maybe they are just happy or in a releif that they laid an egg. lol. i dunno,

[BloodyBay]

@verticalsmurf I think it's the latter. Sometimes the roosters talk back when the hens do this, and the roosters are responsible for guarding the flock. So it might be the hen's way of saying "I just laid an egg, so please help me protect it".

Their distress call sounds similar to that, just louder and faster. I get to hear the distress call everytime I grab my net to help me catch the chickens and trim their wings. My chickens HATE my net. :(

[UP9390]

I have a hen that lays eggs but does not sit on them

[TheCODss]

lol ur chicken vids r rly funny

[Chippendale]

It's a tranny

[babyg8878]

lolololol

[playmate334]

toes!?

[sarahky88]

She looks kind of like a rooster.

Do all hens also have the red things on their faces and under their beaks?

I'm sorry to sound so ignorant but I've never had any experience with chickens before.

[catnipmouse]

Depends on the breed. Some don't have it at all or a small one. Some have big floppy ones, even the hens. Just depends on the breed they are.

[abisheridee]

All chickens have a comb (the bit on their head) and wattles (the bits on their chin), but some have really tiny weeny ones. Some have gigantic ones. The ones you see in battery cages have huge combs, but when you take them out of the battery and keep them free range they shrink right down. I think it's something to do with the chemicals they give them in the battery- so only eat free range eggs! :)

[GrandmasSilverWater]

@sarahky88 The legs look like a case of mites. Look at the way they are

puffy like scales lifting up. They should be smooth.

[TheUnNerved]

@sarahky88 It's called a comb and a waddle. And most hens have something. As catnipmouse pointed out, some breeds have larger combs and waddles than others. I have barred rocks, white rocks and austrolorps, and they all have very large combs and waddles. And they are all quite noisy after laying or if they get spooked by something they see in the yard.

[Toonrocker77]

@TheUnNerved We have Australorps and barred rocks as well. Barred rocks are beautiful

[TheUnNerved]

@Toonrocker77 My barred rocks are my sweeties. They love to be held. The rest couldn't care less.

[TechnoTime1]

One of my chickens did that when a goat butted it and gave it a fright, but it sounded more like a kind of protest.

[typennrules]

i used to have at least 40 chickens. 1 was very special to me. She would come to me when I called her name. She let me pick her up. She was the best. I miss her. My hens never did that. All of my chickens were properly cared for. What type is that chicken? I never seen one like that at a feed store before.

[catnipmouse]

Since she was a rescue we aren't 100% sure but my best guess is she is a White Rock, her feathers were extra soft when you pet her!

[typennrules]

cool! Minw was a silky. Her name was Raven. such a sweetie. I had to get rid of her because a bot cat or something killed 2 of my chickens. Sandy and Rose died. I miss all 40 of them.

[Molemanmike1]

@typennrules @catnipmouse Looks like a white Leghorn to me.

[heribert37]

eating animals should be forbidden..

i mean i eat chickens too but look at that bird :(

[TechnoTime1]

That bird eats animals too (or would if it could at least). I think of the need to eat meat as an unavoidable weakness of meat eaters. Some people have serious health problems if they don't eat meat, no matter what substitute they avoid, and besides, expecting humans to abandon such a food source, especially since so much money has been invested in the meat industry would be like making governments run countries without using the letter e.

[coreyoubeauty]

haha one of my chickens does that whilst she is laying.. the naibours love it :-P

[cbrun67176]

dinner

[Chimokko]

Look at her, she's so proud of herself!

[Christoppher1994]

hehehe, not as loud as my chickens though, they are LOUD!

[goodyfun]

What a cute fluffy chicken! I love how they sound. My sister worked at a garden when it was warm and got to see chickens all the time. Chickens are such wonderful birds.

[geffrod]

What a stereotype! Stop giving other egg laying hens a bad name!

[jonnathan907]

my chickens do that all the time when they lay an egg BAK BAK BAKOOK!!!lol XD lol

[JellyBeanBubbles]

You can get rid of scaly leg mite - check it out on a chicken forum.

I love the Egg Call, sounds like they're yelling 'big Big BIG EGG!!!'

[coyote778]

Your hen seems very happy laying that egg.

[Christoppher1994]

they arn't usually as happy as they seem

[Pumanic]

Does she not have a disease on her legs?

It makes the scales all fucked up, and after a while it might be painfull for the hens. Our hens had it, and we had to put them down after several attempts to make it go away.

Hope your's did'nt have it.

[catnipmouse]

You are correct. She did have leg mites. She was rescued from horrible living conditions, so little of her history is known. She and the other hens all from the same seller had the leg mites. Thankfully none of our new hens have that.

[Pumanic]

If you put a sick hen with healthy ones, the new ones will get it also.

For us it all started with one sick hen, but soon all the hens had it, and it was rapidly getting worse.

It was such a shame, because even if my hens were crossbreeds, they were very pretty and many people wanted chicks from them,

But once you gett this illness, they have to be isolated completely and eventeliy put down...it's sad really.

[catnipmouse]

I no longer have any of our three original hens that had this. The three new ones (also rescues) do not, thankfully and have not gotten it. I was concerned the coop was infected but it's been over a year with the new ones and so far so good.

[Pumanic]

That's good :)

In most cases with this, the buggs that create the problem will excist in the walls, in the eggboxes, and on the sticks wich they sitt on while they sleep. It can go over a year since you had sick hens there, and the new ones can still get it.

It is a pain :S

And it IS possible to cure the hens, god knows we tried, but it takes so much time doing it, and we didn't have the time needed...so we had to put my darlings to sleep :(

[Thomas55Pham]

gok gok gogogoook! xD

[Mercury1600]

you need to trim her nails, or put a few pavers around in their run

[geckodelta]

yeah i have two pet chickens from omlet

[dsbassoon]

Love it! She is so proud of Her egg.

[Lepliz]

we were thinking about getting chickens but we do have neighbors....would they be able to hear that and how long will a chicken cluck for?

[catnipmouse]

How close are the neighbors? The hens can get pretty loud, but they are far less annoying (to me) than a dog who constantly barks. I would say they do that announcing their egg noise for less than 5 minutes. It's pretty cute, to me anyway.

[weeeblfan1]

chicken licken and funny theu do do this but I thought it ment go away but I have four and they don't seam happy when they do this!

[purpleblah2]

Its incredibly annoying when they do that, because not only hare they loud, but soon joined in by the roosters.

[CheesyPanda1]

Our rooster would compete with the neigbors ostrich. So 4:30am every day crowing and booming. Nonstop.

[PinkParez10]

i wish i was a country girl taking care of a million animals it seems soo FUN plus im a animal LUVER!

[tarazod]

We just recently completed filming a feature-length documentary entitle Mad City Chickens. And one of the birds we met is a rescued hen. It's amazing how fast they recover their true nature once they're allowed to live in a stress-free environment.

[antionidept]

Speaking in terms of the chicken she is calling out to her fellow chickens. Most likely, the rooster of the pack will shout back to her. This can be translated as "we are here!" and then she joins up with them.

[Yadiluv81]

Just darlign. I have four pet chickens myself..I hope they do not do this. But just sweet.

[catnipmouse]

Some of them are far more noisy than others. Marla in particular was a show-off about her egg laying!

[Thepinkninja2]

Chickens are cool animals.

[Kaberf]

That's great you rescued the hen. It seems like so many people don't care for their chickens properly. My wife and I own Buff Orpingtons which make that sound not when they're laying, but when a cat, hawk, or something scary is around. I think it's a "warning" call, because once one hen does it, they all start up!

However when we had Rhode Isle Reds they'd do this call just before laying an egg - so maybe our buff orps are just silly :)

[tacosrtasty]

ours did this at 6 in the morning at like full volume!

[DrSlippers]

well done on rehabilitating this lovely hen.

[Hawise1]

I think she's lovely! I am proud of my girls and love when they announce to the world about their newly laid egg. Sometimes the whole barn (roosters included) get into the announcement and it turns into quite the party! :) Congratulations and thank you for rescuing her from that place, good job!

[tacosrtasty]

our chicken did this to but at 6 in the morning it is so anoing

[sapphiresanchez]

lol! bet you enjoyed that, I have 2 roosters and they start singing at 3 in the morning!

[teebo69]

your chicken has a bad case of scaley leg mites

[catnipmouse]

Yes, she did. She was a rescued chicken who came from a very neglectful neighbor, who bought her at auction.  We got the mites cleared up but the damage remains on birds who were once infected.

[folkfox]

lol! My chickens do exactly the same, its really stupid!

[Insanlyinsane]

lmao.. it sounds like she has a case of "deadly hiccups".. beautiful animal! =D

[theperfectone121212]

(applauds)bravo!

[brittanypeck]

that looks more like a rooster than hen ha

[catnipmouse]

She was a rescued hen who came from horrible living conditions. Two weeks after we got her she started laying the most perfect brown eggs =). So we don't know what breed she is, guessing White Rock.