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[Alis girls]

I have been leaving the door to run open so girls can get up and wander. However 5.45am this am there was a loud egg call. OMG - i sleep at front and could hear her! Edwina is a noisey Sussex - a real cutie but what a voice. I rushed out and shushed her. I am now waiting for EH to contact me about my cockerel In 2 years this is the first time the girls have made a racket. I am ready thou - a dog across the way barks non stop sometimes day and night and next door but ones kids are noisey

- do i complain - no. However a lot of people dont understand chucks. Needless to say they will be shut in from now on till I get up.

[Jenthelibrarian]

We have been leaving the door open during the week and trying to remember to shut it on Friday and Saturday nights so the neighbours are not woken by the 'chicken dawn chorus' on weekend mornings.

 

Sometimes it's the 'egg announcement song' and sometimes it's our cat who cannot resist challenging the chooks to a staring contest which ends in loud shouting on their part

[Mrs_B]

I know how you feel. My White Star has such a 'cockerel' voice and is so so loud! Half the time she sounds like a seagull!

 

I am lucky in that one of my neighbours had chickens (a fox got them a few weeks ago ) and my closest neighbour keeps pigeons and loves the sounds of the girls!

 

At 5am in the morning it is very worrying though! I have to be as quiet as possible in the morning when I let them out otherwise they get excited to see me and they all start!! I think three of my girls are laying now, and they are doing so before 8am at the moment...and are very vocal when they strut out of their house

 

x

[Salop Chuck]

My Light Sussex girl, Connie, is very loud and brash, having the most awful loud scheeching call. In the morning between 5am and 7.45am (when I open the coop door) I can hear her demanding to be let out. I sleep in the front bedroom and their eglucube is at the bottom of the back garden so her voice carries quite a way . Fortunately my neighbours either side are very tolerant (softened up with free eggs) but I don't take that for granted.

[chestnutmare]

Sometimes the noisiest neighbours are first to complain. Rather self-centered.

 

Also, because chickens are 'different' they get moaned about more than a dog or building work...

 

[Alis girls]

Woken at 3.30am by screeching women going home outside in street, normally would have annoyed me but was pleased that neigbours might feel my girls arent so bad. .Popped out at 7.15am and could hear them (the hens) chuntering about being inside - traffic over the way could be heard so felt it ok to let them out.

[patsylabrador]

When I let them out in the morning one of mine has started flying up onto the coop and making a sound as though she's imitating a cockeral. She stands tall and puffs out her neck and let's rip. It sounds like a cockeral with a sore throat. It's odd.

[scarlettohara]

I have a CLB that does this every now and again - normal apparently

[Heidi-Hi]

My chickens are noisy too - so much so that hubbie put in an automatic door in the big run so that they can get out into their free ranging area. Opening time at the moment? 04:15 And if the door is stuck for whatever reason the noise is unbelievable!!

 

It is one of the few things that would make me give up the girls - early morning noise And the other thing at the moment is MUD

[clucker1]

Well, we had the same NOISY problem a couple of weeks ago, and it did my head in!!!! What about starting a noiseometer on the noisy chickens? By doing this, for us who suffer noisy chickens, it might help us to choose quieter chickens next time. So far, my Bluebelle is the noisiest girl!!! Though it is early days, pur isa brown (only had her since May) is the quietest.

[Alis girls]

They will be going on hen holiday next week so if EH is called it will be soooo quiet generally apart from egg calls and the odd "OMG theres a strange cat in the garden - muuuuuum mummmmm" they arent bad. However knowing how ignorant the Great British public are I fully expect a complaint.

[nannyhenny]

Just watch a possible reason for their alarm calls - my girls aren't usually noisy in the mornings (or anytime really) but one morning I heard the most awful row coming from the run at about 5 a.m. Rushed out to see why and then heard a fox bark just up the road! I guess they'd heard it too and hence the racket. My neighbour had a similar row from her girls one dawn and actually saw a dark shape making over the garden fence! Obviously fooled by the fox proof run and no sign since- but be aware the hens may be trying to tell you something!

[clucker1]

Our Bluebelle, Primrose (or Dimrose as she is so THICK!!!) makes a noise just for the sake of it. She was doing it last night in the evening....there was nothing for her to make a racket about, but she kept going! The other girls will make a noise when laying an egg as an announcement sometimes (fair enough) and if there is a fox or dog in the surrounding area. But making a racket just for the sake of it does drive me bonkers!!! She does lay a beautiful egg 6 days out of 7 with a HUGE yolk which rather lovely though!

[Alis girls]

Thanks I will watch for Monsieur Fox.