Chick won’t STOP CHIRPING!!

[artbykarenehaley]

Your bird has probably grown out of this by now but it seems like there's always one in the group that shouts it's head off. When I get a chick that likes to shout and chirp I will take our spare tablet, plug it in near thw brooder and play ambient chicken sounds. Especially ones with a content mother hen and chicks.

 

[SuperC]

Your bird has probably grown out of this by now but it seems like there's always one in the group that shouts it's head off. When I get a chick that likes to shout and chirp I will take our spare tablet, plug it in near thw brooder and play ambient chicken sounds. Especially ones with a content mother hen and chicks.

lol…. Yeah…. No. She’s still loud. She’s LESS loud, less often, but boy howdy does she know how to make noise. She just wants me, wants me around and wants me to take her out of the brooder and love on her (though half the time she still chirps as I’m holding her). I have added a ton of enrichment projects and activities for them (outdoor time, running around my kitchen as house chickens, “foraging ” for kale on towels in the kitchen, bird toys, watching undersea documentaries and Pixar movies-
They didn’t like chicken noises I tried). But yeah… Anne is still the loudest.

But I’ve also learned to “hear” the others. Mrs Stacey has a soft double peep, Marilla and Mrs Lynde have these odd raspy buzz trills, and the others just peep like Anne but much softer. It’s fun to know who’s calling for me, but Anne is still on a “most of the day urgent peep fest”

 

[Standoutcheetah]

Glad it’s not just me! I have 15 and one just chirps all the time. Do you have a video of yours?

 

[SuperC]

Glad it’s not just me! I have 15 and one just chirps all the time. Do you have a video of yours?

Not that I can upload easily here. But it’s just an endless peeping.

 

[SuperC]

UPDATE: since a lot of other posts about this never followed up or updated, I want to give a follow up.

Around week 3 Anne started to calm down a bit. She was still loud, she still went for hours a day, but it started to lessen a bit. By week 4-5 she was still doing it, but not in a “I need something” way but more as just noise. By the time she was a full 5 weeks old she was just as noisy (or not noisy as it were) as the other chicks. She is now 6 weeks old, and like any good mama I can tell them all by sound who is calling for me and when, and she still calls for me when I’m standing right there and she wants love, but she no longer is a strobe light of need and volume. She chirps and peeps in a normal volume. She is however one of my biggest love bugs. She wants to be first into my hands/arms when I open the brooder, she loves to sit on me and snuggle when they have fun run around time and in the end, I think it was just a desperate chick calling for mama & couldn’t handle not being apart for awhile. She must have imprinted on me to a degree that she felt the need to always be on me (& couldn’t calm down for a little bit even when I was holding her- just like a distraut toddler would be). So, not sure if this helps anyone else, but take heart- the noise stops… it might take 4 weeks of endless noise and distractions and cuddles, but it did stop!

 

[Standoutcheetah]

UPDATE: since a lot of other posts about this never followed up or updated, I want to give a follow up.

Around week 3 Anne started to calm down a bit. She was still loud, she still went for hours a day, but it started to lessen a bit. By week 4-5 she was still doing it, but not in a “I need something” way but more as just noise. By the time she was a full 5 weeks old she was just as noisy (or not noisy as it were) as the other chicks. She is now 6 weeks old, and like any good mama I can tell them all by sound who is calling for me and when, and she still calls for me when I’m standing right there and she wants love, but she no longer is a strobe light of need and volume. She chirps and peeps in a normal volume. She is however one of my biggest love bugs. She wants to be first into my hands/arms when I open the brooder, she loves to sit on me and snuggle when they have fun run around time and in the end, I think it was just a desperate chick calling for mama & couldn’t handle not being apart for awhile. She must have imprinted on me to a degree that she felt the need to always be on me (& couldn’t calm down for a little bit even when I was holding her- just like a distraut toddler would be). So, not sure if this helps anyone else, but take heart- the noise stops… it might take 4 weeks of endless noise and distractions and cuddles, but it did stop!

Thank you for sharing!

 

[NewChickenMom0711]

I’m trying to not lose my mind with one of my Chicks- she WONT STOP CHIRPING! This isn’t a little peeping like all her brooder mates, this an almost a “help me” peep, but she doesn’t need any kind of help. It’s a “louder than the rest, if a strobe light had a sound it would be this peeping” kind of peep. You know those little plastic chick toys that you hold on your hand that makes an electrical connection and chirps at you? Yeah, sounds almost exactally like that (& just as loud). And she’s been doing it every day since we got her (a week ago). What is wrong? What can I do to make her stop?

A few info bits about her:
-1.5 week old Orpington (as well as her 5 other cage mates )
-she is eating, drinking, snacking, scratching, sleeping and acting just like the others. She’s growing at pace with all the others and getting feathers on schedule and all of them are healthy (no pasty butt or even a sneeze!)
-not being bulled or picked on (she’s actually number 3 in the pecking order, but none of them are actually pushy).
- we have a Brinsea heat plate they sleep under- and we use a dim nightlight in the room for bedtime & we slowly brighten and darken the room with the suns schedule so they have as regular a schedule as we can give them. So she’s not sleep deprived or forced under a 24/7 brooder light (& I also have a night vision baby monitor on them at night and can see they are getting lots of sleep).
- she’s gets just as much love and cuddles as the rest of them, all the attention she wants (we pick her up and hold her when she runs to us, and put her back when she indicates she has had enough). I give them all equal love and one on one time and she’s always happy to be held, but we put her down when she wants it.
- she’s brave- none of them are afraid, but she’s is the first to investigate something new.

So basically, she’s a happy, well cared for chick, but she just won’t stop the noise. And when I’ve taken her to another room for cuddles, it’s amazing how quiet and gentle the brooder sounds with just the other chicks making happy peeps.

I hold her, and give her love thinking she needs extra attention: sometimes that makes her stop, but half the time she keeps peeping the entire time I’m holding her. I’ve tried ignoring it (doesn’t help) I’ve tried giving extra love, that doesn’t help, I’ve even gently reprimanded her in soothing tones and tried shushing her but… she just won’t shut up! I love and adore her, but it’s goes from 7am to 9pm and it’s a lot of non stop strobe light chirping that’s 3 times or more as loud as a normal cheep. I gave them a few mirrors and she likes to stand there, but sometimes it seems to make it worse so I take them away. I give toys and roost bars and she sits on them and plays, but still cheeps. She does it even as she’s eating. She only stops when she’s dead asleep.

Is this normal? And will she grow out of it? Because if she’s going to be like this as an adult, I can’t have that. I’m not keeping any roosters because we can’t have the noise here. Any advice on what to try? I love and adore her, but it’s like having a colicky baby and everyone in the house is going nuts.

I currently have my brooder box inside my house too. I tell my Alexa to play soft music & it’s playing soft rock (the babies like Fleetwood Mac & Jimmy Buffet so far ) on a low volume. It’s helped a lot with the cries, even my rowdy vocal one.

 

[klb25]

I’m trying to not lose my mind with one of my Chicks- she WONT STOP CHIRPING! This isn’t a little peeping like all her brooder mates, this an almost a “help me” peep, but she doesn’t need any kind of help. It’s a “louder than the rest, if a strobe light had a sound it would be this peeping” kind of peep. You know those little plastic chick toys that you hold on your hand that makes an electrical connection and chirps at you? Yeah, sounds almost exactally like that (& just as loud). And she’s been doing it every day since we got her (a week ago). What is wrong? What can I do to make her stop?

A few info bits about her:
-1.5 week old Orpington (as well as her 5 other cage mates )
-she is eating, drinking, snacking, scratching, sleeping and acting just like the others. She’s growing at pace with all the others and getting feathers on schedule and all of them are healthy (no pasty butt or even a sneeze!)
-not being bulled or picked on (she’s actually number 3 in the pecking order, but none of them are actually pushy).
- we have a Brinsea heat plate they sleep under- and we use a dim nightlight in the room for bedtime & we slowly brighten and darken the room with the suns schedule so they have as regular a schedule as we can give them. So she’s not sleep deprived or forced under a 24/7 brooder light (& I also have a night vision baby monitor on them at night and can see they are getting lots of sleep).
- she’s gets just as much love and cuddles as the rest of them, all the attention she wants (we pick her up and hold her when she runs to us, and put her back when she indicates she has had enough). I give them all equal love and one on one time and she’s always happy to be held, but we put her down when she wants it.
- she’s brave- none of them are afraid, but she’s is the first to investigate something new.

So basically, she’s a happy, well cared for chick, but she just won’t stop the noise. And when I’ve taken her to another room for cuddles, it’s amazing how quiet and gentle the brooder sounds with just the other chicks making happy peeps.

I hold her, and give her love thinking she needs extra attention: sometimes that makes her stop, but half the time she keeps peeping the entire time I’m holding her. I’ve tried ignoring it (doesn’t help) I’ve tried giving extra love, that doesn’t help, I’ve even gently reprimanded her in soothing tones and tried shushing her but… she just won’t shut up! I love and adore her, but it’s goes from 7am to 9pm and it’s a lot of non stop strobe light chirping that’s 3 times or more as loud as a normal cheep. I gave them a few mirrors and she likes to stand there, but sometimes it seems to make it worse so I take them away. I give toys and roost bars and she sits on them and plays, but still cheeps. She does it even as she’s eating. She only stops when she’s dead asleep.

Is this normal? And will she grow out of it? Because if she’s going to be like this as an adult, I can’t have that. I’m not keeping any roosters because we can’t have the noise here. Any advice on what to try? I love and adore her, but it’s like having a colicky baby and everyone in the house is going nuts.

I just read this whole thread. She sounds like quite a character! I also just wanted to say that I absolutely love the names. Definitely kindred spirits!

 

[iamjourney]

I've had those chicks, seems to be one in almost every batch.
You might have to just ignore it, holding her to quiet her might be counter productive.
<chuckles> I used to yell SHUTUP and that would work for a bit, scared 'em.

I’m trying to not lose my mind with one of my Chicks- she WONT STOP CHIRPING! This isn’t a little peeping like all her brooder mates, this an almost a “help me” peep, but she doesn’t need any kind of help. It’s a “louder than the rest, if a strobe light had a sound it would be this peeping” kind of peep. You know those little plastic chick toys that you hold on your hand that makes an electrical connection and chirps at you? Yeah, sounds almost exactally like that (& just as loud). And she’s been doing it every day since we got her (a week ago). What is wrong? What can I do to make her stop?

A few info bits about her:
-1.5 week old Orpington (as well as her 5 other cage mates )
-she is eating, drinking, snacking, scratching, sleeping and acting just like the others. She’s growing at pace with all the others and getting feathers on schedule and all of them are healthy (no pasty butt or even a sneeze!)
-not being bulled or picked on (she’s actually number 3 in the pecking order, but none of them are actually pushy).
- we have a Brinsea heat plate they sleep under- and we use a dim nightlight in the room for bedtime & we slowly brighten and darken the room with the suns schedule so they have as regular a schedule as we can give them. So she’s not sleep deprived or forced under a 24/7 brooder light (& I also have a night vision baby monitor on them at night and can see they are getting lots of sleep).
- she’s gets just as much love and cuddles as the rest of them, all the attention she wants (we pick her up and hold her when she runs to us, and put her back when she indicates she has had enough). I give them all equal love and one on one time and she’s always happy to be held, but we put her down when she wants it.
- she’s brave- none of them are afraid, but she’s is the first to investigate something new.

So basically, she’s a happy, well cared for chick, but she just won’t stop the noise. And when I’ve taken her to another room for cuddles, it’s amazing how quiet and gentle the brooder sounds with just the other chicks making happy peeps.

I hold her, and give her love thinking she needs extra attention: sometimes that makes her stop, but half the time she keeps peeping the entire time I’m holding her. I’ve tried ignoring it (doesn’t help) I’ve tried giving extra love, that doesn’t help, I’ve even gently reprimanded her in soothing tones and tried shushing her but… she just won’t shut up! I love and adore her, but it’s goes from 7am to 9pm and it’s a lot of non stop strobe light chirping that’s 3 times or more as loud as a normal cheep. I gave them a few mirrors and she likes to stand there, but sometimes it seems to make it worse so I take them away. I give toys and roost bars and she sits on them and plays, but still cheeps. She does it even as she’s eating. She only stops when she’s dead asleep.

Is this normal? And will she grow out of it? Because if she’s going to be like this as an adult, I can’t have that. I’m not keeping any roosters because we can’t have the noise here. Any advice on what to try? I love and adore her, but it’s like having a colicky baby and everyone in the house is going nuts.

I had one that did that. That chick never shut up until I gave her a stuffed duck. The chick kept trying to get under the other chicks so I figured the chick needed a surrogate mom. Chick got quiet. It’s now 4 weeks old. We named it Banshee.lol the stuffed duck is still in the coop with them .

 

[aart]

We named it Banshee.