If parrots can talk then why can't chickens

[Bryce Thomas]

Birds don't have a voice box, but they do have something that we have, but they have 2, a syrinx. These 2 syrinxes are just above their 2 lungs, not at the top of the trachea, at the upper part of the lungs. They talk by flexing their syrinxes and muscles to force air out then say what they wanna get out by flexing their syrinxes. Parrots have it. Chickens do it. So I need a smart guy to tell me why chickens can't talk

Just so it is known, ALL birds have 2 sirynxes! So why cant ALL birds talk?

This explains more in detail, it just explains how they talk though, not why other birds cant

 

[DobieLover]

Chickens don't have the same level of control over the muscles of the syrinxes as the parrots do.
You have a voice and can sing. So does Ed Sheeran. Why can't you sing like him?

 

[sourland]

But they do.

 

[CalBickieMomma]

I can‘t help you with the whys of parrot speech, but other birds are good at mimicking sound (check out the lyre bird - so cool!).
Ravens and other corvids can also mimic human speech, so parrots aren’t the only ones. Might have something to do with their intellect (parrots are smart and corvids are REALLY smart).
I know chickens aren’t dummies (like the vast majority of the world believes), but maybe they aren’t quite at that level to know how to mimic well (or they just don’t care to copy what we say because they have better things to do ).

 

[Bryce Thomas]

Chickens don't have the same level of control over the muscles of the syrinxes as the parrots do.
You have a voice and can sing. So does Ed Sheeran. Why can't you sing like him?

I could sing until puberty hit

 

[Brooks_]

Ed Sheeran

Who dat?