Kevin Bacon Serenades His Chickens With a Fitting Billie Eilish Song
If you follow Kevin Bacon on social media (if you don't you should!), you know that he and his wife actress Kyra Sedgwick live on a 40-acre farm in Sharon, Connecticut and have many animals. They share lots of videos of their interactions with their animals and spend a lot of time trying to get their moody and standoffish alpacas to pay attention to them. Kevin shared a video at the beginning of June of him serenading his chickens and it will make you smile!
Kevin decides to play the guitar and sing Billie Eilish's hit song Birds of a Feather to his birds with feathers. In the video, Kevin is sitting in the chicken coop on a stool strumming his guitar. The chickens don't sound very happy about it! But by the end of the video, they're all standing around him listening. Kevin got some new fans!
I guess the chickens like him more than the alpacas do! I love watching Kevin's videos! He always looks like he's having so much fun, and I love when his family joins in, too. Fans also enjoyed the video. @JessG pointed out, "They quieted down when he started playing. How sweet!!" @Auntie Miss Carrie-beary swooned, "Awww! They were singing back up!" @Shelley Ladd agreed, "Oh my heart! I love how they all gathered round, quieted down and softly sang along. Thank you!"
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Do Chickens Like Music?
The Footloose Farmer has all kinds of farm animals like goats, alpacas, horses, and pigs, and he sings to them all often. The alpacas normally don't pay any attention to him, but it's super entertaining to watch; check out what happens when the whole family sings to them!
It was clear that the chickens seemed to enjoy hearing Kevin sing and play. But do chickens really like music? According to Pet Educate, they sure do, "Chickens do like music as long as it’s not too loud, or the beat is too fast. Chickens respond to music, especially if they are kept in coops or runs. Free-range chickens may or may not show an interest in music. Evidence from studies and research suggests that certain classical music songs help improve egg production and increase chick growth rate."
This was not surprising to hear since I've learned since writing about other birds that they have an affinity towards music. Birds can't understand the lyrics to songs, but they do react to music like we do. Researchers at Emory University found that when birds hear birdsongs, they respond to the music similarly to how humans do. Pathways that the human brain employs when it listens to music are the same ones that a bird brain employs. I'm not sure that this also applies to chickens, but based on Kevin's chickens, it certainly seems to be true.
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