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morning till dusk. i technically supervise them all the time, because my desk is in front of the yard and I can monitor what they're doing.

No, they sleep in the dog cage. I let both of them out during the day into the yard. They're rhode island reds and the cage is 48 inches x 29 inches x 32 inches

I keep them in a dog cage thing that is quite large (I use the largest type, 48") It's lined with hardware cloth and I use blue tarp to cover them up at night. But wouldn't fabric suffocate them?

i'm just asking. also, it seems like they're just singing the egg song in order to be let out into the yard. and one chicken, the one that lays at around 8-9, is the main "screamer". i'm starting to wonder if she's 'lonely' or just wants to use the nest box at the same time as the other hen...

Haha I told my mom, and she was all like "Why would they want EGGS?" "??????"

I'm also confused as to why they started to lay so much earlier all of a sudden - the first week it was around noon, and after my parents started letting them out the whole day they started laying a lot earlier (6:30 - 8 AMish)

excuse me... romance?

oh cRAp i just realized my mistake - it's LEGAL to keep chickens here not illegal sorry my bad

thanks for the replies guys!! Could I possibly put a mirror in their coop for them to occupy themselves with?

Every day, my chickens start singing the egg song at 6:30 AM. My mom lets them out, they shut up, and one of them goes to lay an egg - but when the other one needs to lay, the start screaming again. My parents won't let me keep them if they continue to be this loud; how do I get them to stop...