The Hens Rejoice

Have you ever done something that you were proud of?  Perhaps you reached a goal that you had set.  Upon achieving that milestone, you naturally want to crow about it a little bit.  It's the human condition that we like to poke out our chests and strut around like we're something special.  The King of the World, the Cock of the Walk.  What if I told you that things are not any different in the animal kingdom?  When animals do something they're proud of, they like to boast, and crow, and strut around.

I witnessed this on Resurrection Sunday morning.  I was out feeding the chickens and opening up the henhouse so that the girls could run inside and lay their eggs.  Upon laying their eggs, the hens launch into a song they've created to tell the world they laid an egg.  It is a song of hope, of exuberance.  It's a song of victory and pride.  Click on the arrow in the photo below if you'd like to hear the hens' song I captured on my cell phone while listening to the hens hymn:

What did you think about that?  Hens don't make that noise at any other time than after laying an egg.  What a cacophony of clucking!  If I could lay an egg, I'd probably sing a song, too!