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[redfrock]

Following on from ANH's thread .... this is a link to the racket two of my girls were making this morning. By the time I had got the camera out they had been going for a good thirty minutes. I think I shall try and avoid the neighbours for a while

 

http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa16/redfrock/?action=view&current=DSCF0396.flv

 

This is actually quite quiet as normally Carmen joins in too, but I think she had already worn her voice out earlier in the morning. Bron (white star & top chook) is the one in the nest box. Agatha, who looms into view is the least tuneful of the bunch and is the one who had been really going for it for sometime even though she has absolutely no intention of laying an egg (we've had one this week already, which is about her lot ). Strangely they suddenly get camera shy.....

[Laura & CTB]

Wonderful - just what you need on a weekend morning

[Stevie]

awwwwww! She really sounds happy sitting there! I like the way another comes in to see what all the fuss is about.

[Snowy]

But it is such a lovely sound isn't it!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I think we'd better be careful with all these noisy chicken videos - we might be putting off potential chicken keepers . "Chickens are quiet" indeed .

[redfrock]

I think we'd better be careful with all these noisy chicken videos - we might be putting off potential chicken keepers . "Chickens are quiet" indeed .

 

I quite agree (as she hangs her head in shame listening to the racket that is working its way through the double glazing ).

 

Seriously, out of my 10, I would say that 3 of them have the 'habit'. So I guess 70% of chickens are quiet

[cluckbok]

Love the footage! Our Speckledy does that too but the minute we go out there she stops! then doesn't do it anymore all day!

[surferdog]

How funny! Two out of my three do this (apart from last Sunday's debaucle when they were all going for it) Hyacinth even does it with her head in the grub which muffles it a bit but must be deafening for her - doesn't stop her though

[Hen Watch]

I think we'd better be careful with all these noisy chicken videos - we might be putting off potential chicken keepers . "Chickens are quiet" indeed .

 

I had this same thought. Mine are quiet 99% of the time, but occasionally they all go for it just like the clip in this post and I immediately think of the neighbours. I think it is a nice, natural sound but then my neighbours might disagree (except my sister who lives next door and is not allowed to... ).

 

Mine have been free ranging all day today from 7.30am till 8pm. Not a peep except...... for 7.15am ....... on a Sunday....... so I let them out of the run going against all I ever said about keeping them in the run to eat their pellets like good girls until at least 10am. I never take my own advice

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Spoke to my (nice) neighbours today. They made a point of telling me that they like hearing the girls' little chickeny noises - makes them feel like they're in the countryside . I said could they not hear them squarking loudly and they said no .