Chicken bald back

[AndyRoo]

Hello all,

 

In the next month or so we will be moving to Bristol (UK), and I wanted to know if anyone else here is from the area and if anyone has had any problems with neighbours etc.?

 

I'm kind of worried about the noise: we'll only be keeping hens, and we'll be doing everything to soundproof them: installing a sound-reducing fence around the part of the garden they will be in, planting some screening trees etc. We also have a 100ft garden, and the girls will be going right to the back. We also happen to be on a main road - albeit one that is fairly quiet in the back garden.

 

Any tips? I know it will ultimately all come down to the personality of the individual hens, but any tips on the area and on how to keep the chooks a little quiet would be appreciated!

 

Cheers,

Andy

[Beantree]

Having been to Bristol several times recently I noticed how friendly and polite people there are, so perhaps you won't have any problems at all AndyRoo.

 

Noisy hens is down to their individual character which is in part their breed. Some of ours make a little noise before they lay and a little afterwards. The biggest problem we have is when they squabble over nest boxes. It seems that the box occupied is the one the next hen wants to lay in, even though the 4 hens have 4 nest boxes and use them all at different times they still all lay in the same box. We haven't been able to sort that out yet and they are 6 years old now so I guess we never will.

[sjp]

I keep a couple of cockerels with my hens and to be honest some of the girls can and do make more noise than the boys at times normally over laying rights trouble with my girls is they don't no when to stop they boys get bored quickly the girls carry on until they go ho"Ooops, word censored!" they boys just crow every hour or so for a few seconds

but don't let that put you off as I find the sound doesn't travel as far in built up areas. the family just at the back of me only has hens who do egg announce and complain about the nest been in use (you get to know the call after a while) but their only at most 20ft away and less than 8ft at the closest to my garden and they aren't as loud as been next to mine when they kick off I think the 6ft fence and the row of conifers help just don't tell the neighbors in advance that there might be a bit extra noise as if you've got a busy body in the area then they will be listening for noise.

[AndyRoo]

Thanks all.

 

I am quietly hoping that I am going to learn that someone else in my area keeps them and I can go and ask them some questions.

 

We are on a main road and as I said: I am going to do everything I can to keep them quiet. I just really don't want to nark the neighbours off!

 

How good are the Eglus at soundproofing? Versus a wooden coop that is?

[Beantree]

Most of the noise comes out of the ventilation areas and the open pop-hole AndyRoo, so I don't think the type of coop makes that much difference.

[AndyRoo]

Most of the noise comes out of the ventilation areas and the open pop-hole AndyRoo, so I don't think the type of coop makes that much difference.

 

Okey dokey. Thank you.

[BridieLou]

We've got hens in London, in a little garden and plenty of neighbours around. We haven't done anything to soundproof them, but the neighbours don't mind in the slightest. They make very little noise unless they are frightened (Ailsa crows at the Magpies and wood pigeons), but otherwise you wouldn't know. Quieter than kids, I'd say! x

[AndyRoo]

I think I have been talked into it. I am just going to go for it. Worst case scenario we will have to re-home them.

 

Now I just have to get some of the little cuties.

[Alis girls]

Andy - Bristol as you know is a uni town - so a lot of housing is student lets and they make a lot of noise as any one on forum can tell you. If you are next door to an 8 bedroomed flat it might be my son and his cronies . I dont think your neighbours will complain as the parties and muzak are much noiser than hens.

[AndyRoo]

Andy - Bristol as you know is a uni town - so a lot of housing is student lets and they make a lot of noise as any one on forum can tell you. If you are next door to an 8 bedroomed flat it might be my son and his cronies . I dont think your neighbours will complain as the parties and muzak are much noiser than hens.

 

I'd better not be living next to an 8 bedroom flat! lol

 

I've assumed most of the students will be somewhere closer to the centre... at least, that's what it used to be like when I lived there in my early twenties.

[Alis girls]

Sorry Andy thought you were youngish many do live in town. I think your worries are unfounded. Humans make much more noise.

[AndyRoo]

Sorry Andy thought you were youngish many do live in town. I think your worries are unfounded. Humans make much more noise.

 

Well... I am young... ish. lol

 

Put it this way: I'm old enough that I can no longer use the phrase "I'm old enough to be your father!" as a joke...