4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[bigmommasally]

Our nearly 3 year old Silky has become really squawky, she's begining to sound a bit like a cockerel at times She's always been chatty when she is in lay but it use to be a sweet little non stop chatter, this time she's just really screeching from just before it gets light for most of the day. I'm worried the neighbours will get fed up with the noise, especially if she's like this come summer when everyone has their doors and windows open

 

Anyone else had this happen with their Silky?

 

My other girls (an Orp and 3 hybrids) are really quiet at the moment (she says touching wood), but they are moulting and not laying.

[chickyhazel]

Chickens are always noisier when they are worried or upset, could she have been frightened by something? Has she seen a fox? Is she being picked on? Is she bored?

[mollyripkim]

I have five silkies, all this years and one is very noisy and demanding. We have just been away for a few days, my daughter chicken sat but was worried about letting them freerange and by day three Henrietta was driving her mad. In the end she let them out and she was fine then so maybe yours is bored. However henritta sqwawkes her head off at all sorts, when pigeons are around, when she lays an egg, if she sees me at the kitchen window! So it's quite normal for her, the others are chatty so not sure what would have made yours change in behaviour.

[Valkyrie]

Ours does it when she can't get in the nesting box when she's broody (which she is at the moment). She will continue to complain loudly until she can get back in there - and with a queue of other birds wanting to lay and hogging the box (not that's a problem at the moment) she can go on and on and on.

[Space Chick]

My Silkie who's no longer with us was a mouthy girl I didn't mind though, I found her constant shouting endearing

[Chortle Chook]

My most dominant Silkie, Doodle, is certainly a lot louder than the others and the one who is at the bottom of the pecking order, Delia, is the quietest. Could you perhaps take your noisy girl away from the others for a day to lower her status?

[Space Chick]

My silkie that made a racket was bottom of the pecking order.

[daxigirl]

Lisa-Marie who's only a bit silkie has just discovered her voice and egg laying (Xmas day) having been a silent menace since I got her in August.

 

She now shouts about and at anything. I keep telling her she'll get an asbo or that the neighbours will eat her for dinner.

[Valkyrie]

Yep our silkie's the bottom of the order too. I wonder if it's "I may be the lowest rank here but I'm loudest!"

[madchickenlady]

I had two gobby silkies. They would start up before light even if shut in the coop They were unbelievably loud. I tried everything to get them to behave but to no avail. I had to rehome them in the end

[daxigirl]

Lisa's no.1 bird in the flock.

[coco]

I have three Silkie crosses. Pipa can be really noisy and Fey who has just started laying can be fairly vocal with her egg annoucements. My silkie Frizzle cross is silent at the moment but not sure how long it will last.

I had a Silkie cross Coco and she would screech for about 15 - 20 mins at the same time everyday, she was PTS a few months ago, the garden has been a much quieter place without her.