Noisy chickens

[Snadger]

I have EIGHT cockerels so never hear the noise of the hens!

Cockerels and ducks are noisy but I couldn't see anyone objecting to the odd quaint noise a hen makes during the daytime hours proclaiming she's the worlds best egg layer.............priceless!

[BUFFS]

If you listen to a hen that has just laid an egg it sounds as though she is singing 'big egg, big big egg! Enjoy!

when ours lay it sounds more like ,"i say ,i said ,i say,i have laid this fantastic egg,are you listening? i said are you listening?" and they strut out of the coop looking like they have just won the lottery,dont you just love them.....

[Flummery]

Mine say, "I've laid an EGGGG! I've laid and EGGGG!"

[SMS6]

mine don't seem to announce the arrival of their eggs any more - it's a shame because it always makes me smile when they do

[Flummery]

I think they sort of grow out of it. Only my young ones do it now. The older one is more blase about it!

[VirginVegGrower]

I have a Cotswold Legbar and three Marans; the former is mad and a right screamer!

[chris]

Old thread, but if mine are noisy I lob some greens at them

[baldrick]

I have a Cotswold Legbar and three Marans; the former is mad and a right screamer!

our cream legbar is horribly noisy and known to a friend 6 houses away as psychochicken. The white leghorn does an egg celebration that lasts ages and sounds like a rain forest. Our Welsumer is not too bad, but what little noise she makes is very early on. Id say warrens are the quietest, doesnt seem to matter if they aare ex batt or shiny and new! They also seem to be more docile than other kinds IMO. Our Silkie is quiet unless she spots psychochicken, then we have a yell off of sqwawk skwawk sqwawk chick chick chick chiceeeeeen! repeated until you put something to block the view.

[Mikey]

My Cotswold legbar is also very noisy, on the plus side she's had me up at 5.30 three times this last week, giving me the opportunity to go to the allotment before going to work.

I go outside and tell them to shut up, and clap my hands a few times, they scarper round the back of the greenhouse and peer at me through the tomatoes.

[VirginVegGrower]

our cream legbar is horribly noisy and known to a friend 6 houses away as psychochicken. The white leghorn does an egg celebration that lasts ages and sounds like a rain forest. Our Welsumer is not too bad, but what little noise she makes is very early on. Id say warrens are the quietest, doesnt seem to matter if they aare ex batt or shiny and new! They also seem to be more docile than other kinds IMO. Our Silkie is quiet unless she spots psychochicken, then we have a yell off of sqwawk skwawk sqwawk chick chick chick chiceeeeeen! repeated until you put something to block the view.

Sorry I meant Cream Legbar - thinking of the eggs in Waitrose. Yeah, we had the orchestral warm up this morning " I'm a legbar!" "I'm a Marans!"" I'm a legbar!" "I'm a Marans!"
"Shut up or I'm coming with a meat cleaver!" They all looked at me as though I was the psycho;-)

[VirginVegGrower]

My Cotswold legbar is also very noisy, on the plus side she's had me up at 5.30 three times this last week, giving me the opportunity to go to the allotment before going to work.

I go outside and tell them to shut up, and clap my hands a few times, they scarper round the back of the greenhouse and peer at me through the tomatoes.

And here was I thinking of getting another two...hmmmmm!

[chris]

I find my light sussex very noisey... she usually starts the others off. I've since found out it's either a) a cat, b) a seagull, or c) something that she's not happy about (i.e. can't see the others).

Erp, VVG - I forgot to let you know I was going back up to Derby n/m next time I'll pop in for a cuppa It'd better be Yorkshire tea though!

[VirginVegGrower]

Ooh yes - give me a shout - be pleased to meet you. I have a Yorkshireman in the house so could it be anything else?

[tlck9]

I would speak with your neighbour although I think they would be more worried about vermin than noise, explain your not getting a cockerel and that there is no smell or vermin if they are looked after. We used to have a beach buggy, very noisy at 6.30 when hubby went to work, I told them if they found it too noisey to come tell and no one did as we have ran it past them before hand

[browngazelle]

Noisy Neighbours

I am replying to this thread as the neighbour of what I think are noisy chickens. There are only hens, kept over the fence from us approx 8m from our house. They arrived this time last year and for a while we had no problems, they just made very cute and quiet clucking noises. It was all very nice. This year though things have been different and I am fed-up at being woken up nearly every morning at least an hour earlier than I need or want to be! The earliest they started squawking was 5.30am but generally I start to notice them around 7am. The squawking goes on for 5 mins at a time, sometimes just once but that's enough to wake me, and other times it can keep going, on and off, for over an hour. All our bedrooms face this way and all four of us are being affected. My girls are not happy!!!!

I'm plucking up the courage to speak to the owner but what can they do other than get rid of the chickens? I don't like to spoil someone's enjoyment but on the other hand I feel they are having no consideration for their neighbours. If I don't tell them we're having problems then they'll never know. I have started keeping a noise diary in case it helps to prove the point.

When they arrived I had no idea how noisy hens can be. Chickens are now sold in our local garden centre and I wonder if they give any information to buyers on the possible issues with noise.

Do any of you have any thoughts on my best approach to this problem?