If you heard the cackling in the dream, such dream symbolizes the sorrow and grief one will suffer.
Dream dictionary: Cackle dream meanings
To hear the cackling of hens denotes a sudden shock produced by the news of an unexpected death in your neighborhood, Sickness will cause poverty.
If you dream you hear hens cackle, or that you catch them, it denotes joy, and an increase of property, and success in business. Dreaming you see a hen with her chickens, means loss and damage. If you see a hen lay eggs, it denotes gain. See Chicken.
If you dream you hear hens cackle or that you catch them, denotes joy, to dream you see a hen with chickens means loss and damage; to see a hen lay eggs is gain.