Any way to stop the egg song?

[STACEYH]

Yes. Get a rooster.

WHAT?

 

[Shadrach]

WHAT?

A rooster will respond to what the OP is calling the egg song and the hen will stop calling.

 

[3KillerBs]

A rooster will respond to what the OP is calling the egg song and the hen will stop calling.

Is that why the hens have become less noisy as Ludwig has matured?

Not that they're submitting to mating yet.

 

[Deezchix]

WHAT?

that's what I said

 

[Deezchix]

A rooster will respond to what the OP is calling the egg song and the hen will stop calling.

Ahhh, I understand. For a second I thought you were being sarcastic.

 

[Shadrach]

Is that why the hens have become less noisy as Ludwig has matured?

Not that they're submitting to mating yet.

I don't know enough about your setup to say.
The so called egg song is a hen calling her rooster to let him know she has laid an egg and the rooster, wanting to make sure his genes are carrried foreward will locate the hen and mate with her before any competing roosters can.
The hen may also call for the rooster to escort her to the nest site where she wants to lay her egg.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

A rooster will respond to what the OP is calling the egg song and the hen will stop calling.

Not in my hen house, lol! The hen and rooster rejoice together over the magnificent egg, and often more than one auntie hen will join in the happy song. I've clocked the celebration at anywhere from ten minutes to half an hour. When it calms down, oftentimes another hen will deliver another egg, and the celebrations begin all over again. I've gotten as many as 16 eggs a day. I happen to love the happy noises, but if one doesn't, they might do well to consider buying their eggs rather than producing their own.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

The so called egg song is a hen calling her rooster to let him know she has laid an egg and the rooster, wanting to make sure his genes are carrried foreward will locate the hen and mate with her before any competing roosters can

It's terribly presumptuous of me to disagree with you, Shad, but I'm going to do it. The rooster knows nothing of genetics. I think it's more likely that the hen's calling is stimulating to the rooster, causing him to respond to her, with the net result being as you said: that his genes do get passed on.

Having said that, I'm going to pre-empt your possible response and admit that MY post above was nothing but a bunch of sentimental anthropomorphizing! Shrug. I know. But at least I don't have to pay tax in this thread, lol. Forgive me?

 

[STACEYH]

A rooster will respond to what the OP is calling the egg song and the hen will stop calling.

Yes, but you should have read what he was saying. He want quiet not a loud roo.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Yes, but you should have read what he was saying. He want quiet not a loud roo.

@Shadrach answered the OP. A rooster will quiet the egg song. How to quiet the roo is a subject for another thread, n'est-ce pas?
Kidding!