Chicken Sound Effects

Hens clucking and raising the alarm: soft clucks that build to an excited burst, two startled squawks, a cartoon cluck and a bright little chick chirp.

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Style

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  • Alarm Cackle

    Natural130 KB

  • Gathering Clucks

    Natural144 KB

  • Hen Cluck

    Stylized115 KB

  • Chick Chirp

    Stylized122 KB

  • Hen Alarm

    Natural121 KB

About chicken sound effects

A hen talks for most of the day. The everyday sound is the cluck, a short, low note repeated as she walks and feeds, which English writes as cluck, bawk or bok bok. When something startles her, the clucks turn into a cackle, a loud, broken run of squawks that often sets off the rest of the flock. Hens also cackle after laying an egg, a burst that poultry keepers call the egg song. Chicks have their own sound, a high peep or cheep that gets louder and more insistent when they are cold or lost. The rooster's crow is a separate call with a page of its own.

How to write it in Korean

LanguageSound
한국어꼬꼬댁, 꼬꼬, 삐악삐악

Which one to pick

Clucking

Gathering Clucks starts soft and grows more excited, a natural build for a scene that is about to get busy. Hen Cluck is a single cluck with a cartoon edge.

Alarm

Alarm Cackle is one startled burst, and Hen Alarm swells sharply and falls away. Both are loud and harsh, so they work as a sudden reaction or a moment of panic.

Chick

Chick Chirp is the only young bird, small and bright with a cartoon feel that fits children's content.

Uses

  • Comedy and memesAlarm Cackle when someone panics or gets called chicken.
  • Children's videos and picture booksChick Chirp and Hen Cluck for farmyard stories.
  • Homestead and backyard flock vlogsGathering Clucks under feeding time footage.
  • GamesHen Alarm when the player runs through a coop and scatters the birds.

File details

  • −1 dBFS
  • MP3 320 kbps stereo

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