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[jamak1]

Hi there i need some advice, i had 3 goldlines. Great layers but they were squaking and screaching all of the time ususally at 5 am. I tried to do everything to keep them quiet but they were very clever and screached louder despite my following the various guides out there.

 

Are there any breeds out there that are quiet, docile and would not awake my neighbourhood at 5am? I was thinking of bantums but have been told they are just as noisy.

 

Advice would be great?

[Old Speckled Hen]

Nope.

Most breeds can be noisy at one time or another I'm afraid.

AND it's worse in the summer when it's beginning to get light at 3am.

You could try to lightproof their coop but if you exclude all light you compromise the ventilation.

My cockerel starts crowing at 4am even though he overnights in our undercroft which is pitch black

[jamak1]

Hi there thanks for that. I did lightproof the coop but no avail they just screached louder. How do you cope at 4 am?

[Old Speckled Hen]

He sleeps in a large dog crate in our undercroft which is a part of the house buried in the ground...a sort of basement, if you like.

We can still hear him in the house although muted but it doesn't bother me, I just roll over and go back to sleep if I hear him at all.

I let him out at seven and he treads a couple of hens then has a good feed

[donald]

Hi

 

I had a problem with my hybrid chickens and alwasy put it down to a fox or them spotting my dog at the window early hours?? But in their older age they are much more quiet. I got some bantams and although they can be sqawky I dont find them as loud! They sound like witches cackling but I dont find them so loud!

 

not sure what anyone else thinks Donald

[sparkysmum]

My sablepoots are as quiet as mice but my pekin makes more noise than anything else I can think of. Even I'm quite taken a back sometimes

[Maureen Lamb]

My sablepoots are a lot quiter than my Serama's. Pekins well my boy has a crow .

[sadietoo]

Apart from egg announcements there isn't too much noise from my two, the hybrid can be a bit whingey from time to time, but the Sussex doesn't seem to make much noise at all. I feed them Mash though so that seems to keep them busy for a lot of the time

[fluffy chick]

My pekins are generally quiet but I have one hen that crows like a cockerel since we introduced some new girls. I'm hoping it's just a phase till things settle down but she is very loud.

 

My hybrids on the other hand were as quiet as mice , so no help at all sorry!

[cliveb]

Not a great help, I just get up at 5AM and let them out!!

[hennyjenny]

Mine were noisy very early so I now leave the eglu/cube doors open and just fasten the run up at night. I know it is a risk but I want to keep my hens and neighbours happy. Since this regime was implemented (recently due to the increased light in the morning) the hens have been much quieter and are only noisy when announcing their egg laying or there is a cat in the garden.

I have LF and bantams and the bantams are quieter but I have heard it isn't necessarily so!

 

Good luck.

[Venus]

If it's really a problem, maybe invest in an automatic pophole opener?