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lol I haven't heard of the no-crow collar being used on a hen but that does make sense. Will be interested to hear how your experiment goes, if you let us know sometime. Best wishes.

Yep, they're training you to come out and do what they want. It's natural enough and not necessarily malicious, but obviously in suburbia can be a serious issue. Once they start making noise to get what they want, and succeed with getting what they want from you, it's a very strong lesson...

If you rush out there with treats to distract them they will rapidly learn to scream to get treats. That's one big no-no. Whatever you do, try to keep your stress levels as low as possible or it's counterproductive. Noisy animals will somehow pick up on your stress levels amazingly well and...

You're welcome and I hope it works. They are indeed pretty smart on average and will continue to ignore you if you are not able to reinforce your command. Positive and negative reinforcement works on them too; if one chicken stopped doing something I told it to stop and then busied itself doing...

Quote: That's more or less it --- do something to stop them making the sound, and break the pattern. It becomes a habit, so it takes a little bit to break it. When I was in the vicinity and one or more chooks started the panic song, I'd do something along the lines of loudly say "ah-ah!"...

Quote: Good bet that she is laying elsewhere, I reckon. Best wishes with your illicit nest hunt. ;)

Some of my roosters were the same too, it never escalated until I brought in those spare-brained chickens. I didn't used to cull for any chicken's fondness for singing the 'egg song' and after culling the 'panic-maestros' I don't cull offhand for it, because it's within reason. But I do...

Quote: Yes. It's actually their natural predator/warning-alarm call, modified from centuries of domesticity into something that no longer represents panic or predator's presences, but is often combined with an obsessive/compulsive mindset devoid of logic or the ability to stop, in some cases...

There are a few meanings behind both sounds. People have already stated some but here's my experiences. The 'egg song' (or 'bok-bagark' as we call it), is often also used as an alarm call. This is not an issue, until you have a spacky neurotic chook who makes it when there is no issue at all...