Chicken noise and neighbors

[All about the EGG]

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I am trying to picture that....

 

[Churkenduse]

With regards to noise at night I would assume they are quietly asleep

They are very quiet at night. They go in the coop automatically at sundown, sometimes earlier.
I am in the same boat you are in I worry about noise. My girls sometimes make alot of noise mostly when they are about to lay, but the dogs in my area make ten times more noise.

But I must tell you if you are really, really going to be upset about it and you have nasty neighbors you might want to reconsider raising them at your home. I was making myself sick when I had 3 roos and thought I was going to have the police at my door. That never happened but i had to get rid of them.

I went to my neighbor to say how sorry I was that my birds were so noisy and he looked at me like I was nuts. He said that his house was so hectic in the morning he had no time to worry about my chickens, now that is a nice neighbor. He just told me not to worry. You have to weigh all you options only you know your neighbors.

Good luck I hope this works out because it is so worth it.

 

[Nichole77]

I have 4 girls in the burbs. They free range in the yard all day and go into the coop at night. The only problem I have is that they poop on the porch a lot. I use straw for bedding they seem to like it. I don't have to mow the grass and they scratch an pick in the yard. They do dig holes but no big deal,

 

[tororider]

Nichole,
How big a yard do you have and I assume you have it fenced in to keep them in your yard?

 

[Scrambled Egg]

I did get rid of my crowing roo but my 12 hens are extremely noisey from about 7 - 11 during the hours they are laying. So far no one has complained, but I have some real pain in the buttcus neighbors so I expect it anytime...and if that happens, I will go out and find myself the most annoying, yappy, loud barking dog I can find to live in the backyard with my chickens........bark, bark, bark and bark some more LOL!!

 

[Nichole77]

OK I 've got 70' wide and about 45' from the house to the back fence. I have a 6' privacy fence all around. All my girls are full sized. I sweep the porch every dayish. And I sound so bad that I don't clean up all the time but I live in Az. and I have more of a tractor type housing. The straw gets raked out every week and I just move it around my trees. They built a nest inside so they really don't poop there. One time my RIR jumped into the neighbors yard but she used a play gym to get over. We moved that and they don't get out. We had 5 chicks but someone ooopsed and we got a roo. He had to go due to city ordinances. My girls can be loud but only durring the day. They go to be on their own so I don't have to herd them. And it's neat to watch them roost on the kids swing set.

 

[Pelican49]

herechickchick wrote:
he throws a Frisbee to himself? Strange cookie!

Really really long arms?

 

[tororider]

Well sounds like noise and smell shouldn't be a problem, now I just need to convince my dw. Wish me luck.

 

[herechickchick]

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I am trying to picture that....

He is very tall and lanky. He wears 1980's short gym shorts and a t-shirt with very dated tennis shoes and socks pulled up. Then he will toss the Frisbee across the yard, not hard just hard enough to give it some flight. The he will run across the yard and catch it. It is very strange.

 

[sleepless]

Chickens should be kept in a coop at night. I am in my 7th decade and my health and happiness have been ruined by chickens squawking from 7 - 11. I asked my neighbors to put them in the coop at night. There is something very sad in several of the comments here rather much lacking in compassion. I want to add I am very supportive of Food Freedom. Caesar Chavez was our hero at home as kids. I have belonged to food cooperatives for 40 years. I helped the neighbors' chickens back over the fence three dozen times. We live in little houses on little lots here. When I explained that my health and happiness were being destroyed and asked if they could put their chickens into the coop at not, I was told "they are noisy; we can't go anything about it!" I quit working my second job because with the chickens up so early from spring to fall equinox, I could not sleep enough. Sad bit of injustice and hugely lacking in kindness. This matter will hasten my demise.