Do you sing to your incubating eggs?
Do you sing to your incubating eggs?
This article was on the BBC website today...
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37116728
Interesting study about different songs the parent birds sing to their incubating chicks.
Really neat, wonder of domestic poultry do anything similar?
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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37116728
Interesting study about different songs the parent birds sing to their incubating chicks.
Really neat, wonder of domestic poultry do anything similar?
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Brebis: oh that's just great, as if Sandy and Kathy and Jan (and many others) weren't wacky enough, now we'll start testing birdsong or music to play to our incubators. I was playing tunes from John Williams music from the first Star Wars music this morn, we have some Wagner we'll have to test as well. I know a chicken guy that plays local radio to his caged laying hens. Classical music also has been tested on milking cows with great benefits including stress reduction. (Nothing beats Darth Vader's march....dum dum dum, dumdee dum dumdee dum...
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I think someone should try this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYBIsLFbKo
No, we don't volunteer for that one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYBIsLFbKo
No, we don't volunteer for that one!
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Ben known to play music. Hubby chats to them sometimes to introduce himself.
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Ummm, I don't talk to eggs, no incubator. But I talk to my chickens and ducks. And when they've annoyed me they get a mouthful. Pretty sure THAT is common practice. :)
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I seem to remember Al had some bad experience whistling to his incubator???
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I talk to the incubating eggs all the time. Don't know if it helps the chicks but it makes me feel good.
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I did whistle to the incubator after a chick had pipped.... well he/she rapidly zipped and popped out. but the poor chick wasnt ready to enter the world yet as the yolksac wasnt absorbed at all. I tried to save it and thought I did, but I didnt. so yes singing/whistling to incubating eggs really does effect them. I no longer whistle to the chicks until after they have hatched.
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does playing country music in the house loud enough that it can be heard inside the incubator count? That's pretty much every evening and weekend around here....and poultry_admin the incubator IS running right now....go for it....we will "reform" you eventually!
baron, as long as you teach them how to responsibly use the little lightsabers they will pop out of the eggs with after hearing star wars movies....you might be on the road to self-protective chickens LOL yes, i have had too much caffeine this morning. LOL
i can honestly say i have never talked to the incubating eggs (other than the odd censored word if i find a cracked one....)...but i do talk to the fuzzybutts when they hatch....and i swear i can have conversations with the grown ups in the barn. not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but we don't seem to fight all that often so it can't be all bad ;-P besides, they listen unconditionally....
baron, as long as you teach them how to responsibly use the little lightsabers they will pop out of the eggs with after hearing star wars movies....you might be on the road to self-protective chickens LOL yes, i have had too much caffeine this morning. LOL
i can honestly say i have never talked to the incubating eggs (other than the odd censored word if i find a cracked one....)...but i do talk to the fuzzybutts when they hatch....and i swear i can have conversations with the grown ups in the barn. not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but we don't seem to fight all that often so it can't be all bad ;-P besides, they listen unconditionally....
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Onliest when I'm have in a shower . Luck
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