That's one uninformed person!! If she knew what happened at commercial chicken farms and how the chickens are treated she'd probably never eat chicken again.
My 2 laying hens wake me up about twice a week hollering " I laid my egg!! I laid my egg!! It's hard for me to differentiate between the "Danger Danger!! sound from the " I layed an egg!!"
Just to be safe I get up and go check on them just to be sure. It seems everyone else sleeps thru it.
What are they? 5?? It amazes me how some families are SO uninformed and they pass this incorrect information down thru the generations. My ex DIL was told by her grandparents, I believe, that roosters sprayed the eggs to make baby chicks...or something along those lines. It was so ridiculous...
The 2 laying hens that I have can get pretty vocal at about the same time every morning..10am. That tells me they are going to lay or already did. They have 8 nesting boxes to chose from but both go into the same one.
It would be like trimming a bird wing..parrot, cockateil or macaw. The flight feathers are trimmed so they can't get air to get off the ground. Being in a residential area I certainly don't want them to go over into our neighbors yards. I Do Not trim my hens wings but if it became necessary I...