AMERAUCANA HENS: QUIET OR NOISY?

[MisfitRanch75]

Hello,

I am wondering if any of you Ameraucana owners can give me feedback on how quiet or noisy your hens are? I am curious about your experiences with how vocal the hens are in general...(I know that no matter how quiet a breed is SUPPOSED to be, there will always be individual chickens that break the "rules"!). I have been unable to find information on how quiet or noisy the hens are compared to other breeds, So I am interested in what other owners have to say about their experience with noise level. I hear they are very sweet, and I love the idea of colored eggs, but my chicken run is in between my bedroom and my neighbor's house, so, noisy wouldn't be a good thing for neighbor-relations no matter how many blue eggs I bribe them with!

Thanks for any thoughts you all may have!

Alys

My little Americauna is noisy, all day. I live in the woods so it's no problem, but I would say she's the noisiest. But she's also my favorite. She's a crazy lil lady

 

[uncalpete]

Hi Alys,

They're pretty quiet for the most part. I'd say quieter than most. Rarely make any noise while they're outside.

When they are upset they'll make sort of a growling noise and they'll make a lay cackle after dropping an egg.

Hope that helps.

God Bless,

god bless is right. CAn you not answer a simple dam question

 

[Biddybot]

My most recent brush with Ameraucanas was in the form of nine 'olive-eggers' I purchased at three months of age and which were created by either crossing an easter egger rooster on orpington hens or the orpington rooster on Ameraucana hens (pretty good quality too--I saw them). Once grown, it was easy to tell which birds were the half-Ameraucanas because of their looks and also because of their much more assertive personalities. And yes, mine are noisy. The hens, if they're upset about something or I'm too slow letting them out of their pens/runs, they start crying loudly...a constant 'awrk awrk ar-ar-ar-ar-ar awrk AWRK AWRK AWRK' repeated ad nauseum until they get their way or get tired of complaining. The roosters are just as bad and they WHINE...a long drawn-out 'eeeeeeeeeeeeee' sound uttered whenever something bugs them or they think they see something concerning. Also the usual crowing and clucking, of course, but the whining is really something else.

I also owned a purebred Ameraucana hen in the past who'd been good enough to be shown and who still had the metal clip in her wing web to prove it, and I remember her dropping an obnoxious AWRK string at times as well. The meanest hen I've ever known too. Even though already middle-aged for a chicken when I brought her home, she instantly took over as Top Hen and lorded it over everyone else until she literally dropped dead one day several years later. She was alone when she dropped too, while marching back to the coop all on her own from a foraging trip at the far end of my backyard. Never hung with a single other bird and always did her own thing whenever she wanted, even if it meant leaving the main flock. Even the roosters were scared of her. So yeah, I think Ameraucanas and their progeny can be a lot more given to expressing their opinions than all the other breeds and mixes I've kept over the decades. They certainly have a lot of character.