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[Space Chick]

For the last 3 days when we have been doing combined free-ranging I have laid out meal worms. Rose eats these very quickly and makes a noise that sounds like a hiccup. She doesn't do this any other time.

 

Can Chickens have hiccups when they eat treats too fast or is it a weird response noise to free-ranging with the newbies?

[Jane_uk]

One of mine burps after wolfing her treats down, (usually it's just one burp, but it's a 'builders burp' so to speak, and not very ladylike).

 

I don't know what I'd do if I saw a hiccup! My motherly urge would want to try and get her a drink, the rest of me would probably think it was cute and get a fit of the giggles!

 

Hope Rose is okay with her hiccups and they're not causing her any problems! x

[Space Chick]

How un-ladylike Jane

 

Glad your ex-batts are having a fun life.

 

Rose is her usual self, hiccups are not bothering her, its just I'm a panicky mum

[*mummy_hen*]

Florence doesn't hiccup but when she has lots of food infront of her or we give her treats she sort of clucks under her breath...the first time she did it i thought she couldn't breathe properly!!

 

They get over excited i think

[Gallina]

One of my cockerels hiccup'd for a few minutes just like a human if he was suddenly grabbed. It was so funny.

[Budgies]

Are the mealworms live? My girls used to do a hiccupy/sneezy noise when they ate anything that wriggled! Moths, worms etc, big hiccupy noise right after!!

[Space Chick]

No Budgies they are the dried mealworms

 

Everyones answers have put my mind at rest though, thanks

 

I don't know whether its having new girls again, but I have gone back to being a panicky chicken mummy!

[simon_blackwell1]

Given they have lungs they presumably have a diaghram and therefore could get hiccups......?

[eggalp]

My Chalkie hiccups!! Im sure its a hiccup! She does it after treats, but she sometimes also does it whilst she's having a dust bath - it sounds very much like a hiccup. She is the only one of my four that does it, i dont know if its a coincidence that she is the greediest one

[Henhathnofury]

I want a chicken that hiccups now! My girls have never done one...

 

Not so sure about the builder's belch though..that made me giggle.