Learning Chicken Speak and How It Can Help Georgia Farmers

UGA Professor Bruce Webster and research engineer Wayne Daley discussed their study into deciphering the sounds a chicken makes on ''A Closer Look.''

Forget the age-old question about why the chicken crossed the road. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia want to know what the chicken said. 

UGA and Georgia Tech researchers have been studying the different sounds chickens make and if those sounds might indicate whether the birds are happy or sad, or maybe sick or frightened.