LOVE this!! So spot on! I’ve been taking notice of the various sounds my chickens make. There are so many variations with body postures but if one spends enough time among them you can start to understand and even try to ‘communicate’ with them. I got such a chuckle out of your little hens saying ‘’hello, where is my breakfast!”. As soon as mine hear me open the door, they sound like a flock of seagulls yacking off.

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there and thank you so much for sharing your observations. I am so interested in communication and the way birds express themselves both vocally and through body language. I love Squee, she makes that noise every morning and it gives me such a great start to the day. All the very best, Sue xx

Beautiful 👍

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Aawww Thank you so much Edge Sam - as always your comments are appreciated. Andy has retired (since 1st Feb) and we are free to do much more on our other platforms - so I'll be uploading most of my new material to those but will still answer comments on here. I do hope you will stay with me - the details of where I will be posting are below this film and I'm also going to make The Holistic Hen into a 'proper website'. It's all exciting stuff and I'm looking forward to the challenge, also of getting more of this down on 'paper' and getting a book finished. All the very best, love from Normandie, Sue xx

@edgesam4958

2 жыл бұрын

Now you have a time to make more 👍🙏.have a great time guys. Cheers

Thank you. I miss my chicken friends. My Roos crowed for several reasons: calling the girls to make a head count when they wandered too far. Calling the new girls to follow him so he could show them the field. Normally very patient; Sometimes my buddy "Roo" would come to the front door, face the door square on and crow especially loud to get me off my bum and feed them when I have been far too late. That boy could make the door vibrate. They would also shout at the windows for food or attention. Discussing with his brother and friend "Brooster" who's going to get "Mama" the one hen they would fight over. The rest belonged to "Roo" undisputed. I agree, that crowing serves more than to "show off". Oh yes and chatting with the neighbor roo. Be blessed.

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there and thank you for your great comments sharing your conversations with poultry. Brothers have always been a problem in our garden when it comes to hen friends - they always chose the same mate to bond with and then and only then have I had fights that involve actual physical contact to deal with. It got so bad with my Ardenner triplets some years ago that I actually had to give one away to my neighbour - although they continued to shout loudly at each other from across the fields! Actually for me its the quail that make the loudest noises when they want food, they 'bark' at me like a pack of ravenous dogs! I do hope you get some more birds soon - they need people who love, care and understand them and they give us so much joy! Thank you for your kind wishes, they are appreciated. I'm able because Andy has now officially retired (not really as we never do on the land) to be able to devote myself to my other platforms and not be reliant on this one, so I hope you will stay with me - the details for where to find me are below this film. All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

@yeshuas5172

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pavlovafowl Thank you. I did end up finding Brooster a home and was sad to see him go. Roo was happy to finally be king. He took his duties seriously and was also a friendly rooster. My white Faverolle named Vanilla Bean barked at the window. SO CUTE. I do hope to have chickens again someday but until then, I love to see all your feathered friends and your bird sanctuary garden when ever you are able. Thanks for sharing.

So interesting!!

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there and thank you so much - your comments are appreciated! I will be moving to upload more on my other platforms, you can find details below this film, I do hope you will stay with me and I will still reply to comments on here, I just won't be uploading much new work. All the very best from a sunny afternoon in Normandie, Sue xx

Great video learned a lot 😁

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! All the very best Sue xx

It’s amazing how complex the chicken flocks are…they have quite the fowlish society 😉😁. It’s unusually cold here in Maryland US, lots of snow. And we’re waiting on our truckers to start their convoy from California to DC in protest of the mandates. I’m stocking up today!! God bless!

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Gina, so complex that I doubt several life times are enough to 'scratch the surface' but I try. I'm so envious of the snow - I want to make a whole flock of snow chickens yt3.ggpht.com/7BIzhajWXTDOUcv5ir04RUgwU5sgIT9cke1NKCRleFemmPCKHrqKQLw_Jpm7gzZxN6M8nwNKDpat6To=s640-c-fcrop64=1,20000000dfffffff-nd-v1 That was 2010! We've been watching the truckers - wow what an amazing group and all the well-wishers along the way and out in -27 and their home-made signs and their home-cooked food parcels and such a diversity of people and ages (yes I cried). I think it has had a great effect here too, as for once an event is simultaneously translated into French, all my neighbours know about the 'camionneurs'. There is supposed to be a European convoy going to Bruxelles on the 9th I believe from all over Europe. I am celebrating our freedom too from this platform actually, Andy just became retired (not really, only according to the government), so it frees us up from depending on this, I have to say it, exceedingly meager revenue for the amount of effort put in by all the creators on here. I'm going to concentrate on uploading to my other platforms - (details below this film), However, I will still answer comments on here, I just feel, to quote Shakespeare 'Tis better playing with a lion's welp. Than with an old one dying' that and the fact that the baby lions actually like creators - which is a big plus and are so helpful. They actually send out mails too - I have 20 subs on BitChute and 20 views almost immediately on publishing. Here I have over 15,000 and you can see by my figures how many views I get from that. I'm going to make The Holistic Hen into a proper website too and I'm going to get more time to write my real physical books - so that will be wonderful. Any road up, as we say up North, you keep warm and well fed. Much love from Normandie, Sue xx

@GinaSiska

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pavlovafowl XOXO 😘

Hi Sue, you're looking very well as always, along with your lovely chooks. Some of our ninjas like to jump straight into the washing up bowl I use to concoct food lol, as well as peck my wellies a lot! All our boys do cluckuy sounds towards the girls, it's especially endearing, and comical when our big adopted Wynadotte "fluffy" does this ... don't know how he manages to squeeze into some of the nesting areas lol! We've just adopted 12 in total, cross brahma (including, I think, 4 pure breeds by the looks of them ... some I feel give off good vibes lol, as when checking everyone's present, one cross breed was happily snuggled with the ninjas on the first night of her stay (not with her mates in a shed) ... extremely brave lol! I think her demeanor is very much like yours, calm, serene, relaxed! 😊 Best wishes, Kirsty xx

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kirsty good to hear from you! Thank you so much for your lovely comments, they are appreciated as always! It's sounds like you've got a lot of feathered friends to take care of and observe there. I so love just going out in the garden and watching them. It is so important to see them as individuals, as you obviously do and to understand that there are no rules when it comes to chickens. That squeezing into nest boxes behaviour is amazing,: at one time, I've seen one cockerel trying to show eight hens how to make a nest - then they went off and did their own thing, not as well I have to admit! All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue xx

A very delightful thing that you would cover such an interesting subject that relates to the life of hens and roosters. I myself have noticed how subtle the signaling calls can be between different hens and it leads me to believe that they are communicating with each other far more than most people realize. As weird as it might sound, I honestly believe that chickens actually socialize with each other similar to how humans do, and they can even talk to each other about their personal experiences, what they 'saw' earlier that day, and so forth. Also, the way that the mother hen speaks to her chicks is quite fascinating in my opinion; a lot of subtle noises and gestures can be deciphered by the sounds they make. Hopefully you might continue to cover this idea in future videos! Thanks, and have a wonderful (and hopefully warm) rest of your week 😊

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Charles and thank you so much for your lovely comments - they are appreciated. I have so far, as you can see, made three previous films in this series and it is on-going. I do have the written articles to accompany the first two films in and am about to publish the third - holistic-hen.blogspot.com/p/behaviour.html. I so agree that chickens spend quite a lot of the day socialising and that includes sun and dust bathing together, as well as preening but also importantly talking to each other. I was first made fully aware of this some years ago when one group of my birds decided to roost outside in a large bay tree rather than in the coop. This was a 'splinter' group with what was then a young dominant cockerel. They would all gather in the early evening when they would preen and chat together on the lower branches and then as night began to fall, the cockerel would chase any stragglers into the tree from the garden and then move the others up to the higher levels. I actually recorded this in the film 'Going to roost' kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZaqestGadc_IaJM.html . Just to let you know, it was Andy's Birthday on the 1st and he became (not really but in governmental terms) a retired pensioner. This makes it possible for me to have much more freedom of choice and thus I am probably going to be uploading films (including in this series) to my other platforms. I've loved all the comments from all the wonderful people on here and I will continue to reply but I'm going to share my work where I feel happier as a creator and have more chance to succeed. I hope you will stay with us both and you can find the links in the details below this film. I am also going to change my blog from Blogger to a self-hosting actual website and I will have more time to work on my book but more of that later. Thanks for your good wishes - it is actually even colder today but I am inside near the woodstove, ever in hope it is going to snow - more in hope than certainty! Sue xx

It's funny, I have a little Silkie rooster who will go into the hay barn and pull choicest straw bits for a certain nest box. He only puts straw in that one box. Unfortunately if he sees the camera he will drop everything and stand there posing. He's such a ham for the camera. As for crowing and my observations, I feel that while some is a territorial thing, most is information. Take care and keep warm Sue . - Marcie

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Marcie, Yes that s typical, our Silkie rooster is the same, he does the most interesting things until we get the camera out. When he first came he was not like that and I made a whole film about him but he has learned too well from the other divas in the garden. Also he is the World's worst at getting covered in mud, particularly on his crest. My neighbour got him from an expensive pet store and garden centre, so he was super shiny and fluffed up when he came and has ever since enjoyed poking around in the soil and under bushes and getting thoroughly messy, so I can't blame him! I totally agree birds are much more into communication and this includes with wild birds too, who often are the first to see danger on the horizon. All the very best from your friend in Normandie, Love Sue xx

Do you have the chicken breed houdan?

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jan, No but I have Polish/Padoue which are the root from which the Houdan were bred, it is thought they were crossed with the old Normandie fowl which were five-toed and dated from the time of the Romans - the Romans were apparently obsessed with five-toed fowl! I see a lot written about Houdans being Polish crossed with Dorkings these latter were actually created from the Ardenners, which I also have - now just crosses but you will see my pure Ardenners in my early quail films. These Ardenners were known in Roman times and again had five toes originally. Although obviously from the Ardennes, Ardenners were bred all over Northern France as well. Here is an article and film about my Polish if you are interested: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2012/05/choosing-chickens-polish-crested-beauty.html#.VBLmhtZDu5k All the very best from Normandie, Sue

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