Does every flock have a complainer?

[ekavi]

Boy i hope you don't live in a close neighborhood

. Chickens are a ball of fun and poop.

 

[NjoyNjoy]

Yay, I had concluded that my Isa Brown was just this sort of personality - a complainer more than an alarmist. Quite laid back really. But oh when she starts complaining about something it is either full volume or escalates to full volume. And if she really wants ME to do something about it, she will go from the front of the house to the back of the house where ever she can hear me pottering inside UNTIL I got outside. But I never know WHAT I am suppose to be DOING!!!!

I check the food scraps, or water or essentials to make sure they are intact. I see she is alright in the process. If it is passed 8am I know it is not about her preparing to lay her daily, and feeling miserable about that push and lay business. So then i try and understand. Sometimes she just seems to want to play e.g. me to dig some soil for her, or move some pot plants from the ground to reveal the worms and critters underneath hiding on the surface safe under the saucer of the pot plant -until I come along with a complaining chicken!!!

But even then she will forage for the obvious and if I move away to come back inside, she immediately follows and starts her complaining again. It is like "C'mon lets have some fun, like when you have those gardening stints for hours on end, please, lets lets lets."

She might have a full crop, and have laid the daily and have foraged and had a rest and then she starts, as if..... IM BORED, can we do something PLEASSSSSSSE.

I used to think she was just plain dissatisfied with 'breakfast' - obvious because she did not eat any - but it happens during any time any day not just in the mornings. But mornings is a more reliable pattern of complaining with a deep ?hawk cry.

So thanks for starting this thread, I am so glad this was posted. I don't feel cruel or so confused now.

 

[blackswamp]

We have a Barred Rock that complain about EVERYTHING all day long. Just so happens her name is Little Berta named after my wife Berta. Go figure.

Jeff

 

[birdlady79]

Oh yes, my Easter Egger is the resident chatterbox in our little flock of four. She starts talking the moment she's awake and doesn't stop until they settle in for the night. It's mostly quiet muttering, not nearly as loud as our two dogs. The neighbors haven't complained yet! It's funny to hear her, though. She complains if she's not let out, she complains if she's chased back into the run, she mutters insults when the other girls get too close to her treats or don't follow her when she calls, and she trills/purrs for a good half hour straight in the evenings as everyone goes to bed. It's adorable and I wouldn't trade her for anything!

1 of my BA's was purring or something like that at bed time..... Never heard it before.

 

[lularat]

1 of my BA's was purring or something like that at bed time..... Never heard it before.

Love hearing my girls purr. When they go into their coop for the night, I'll go stand at the window just to hear them.

 

[memphis]

I do the same thing! I'll stand outside the coop & listen to them. They do it real early in the morning right before dawn too.

 

[Nofowlplay]

I do the same thing! I'll stand outside the coop & listen to them. They do it real early in the morning right before dawn too.

What does that sound like? Like a cat purrs? I have been really astonished at the sheer number of different sounds my chickens make. My BO sings quite musically.

 

[memphis]

Not exactly like a cat. Sort of a soft murmuring.

 

[ekavi]

purr but chicken like. A must see movie is Chicken Run. claymation movie but even more hilarious cause now we have chickens. I love the coo coo coo I hear from the coop.

 

[Mah1Mah1]

purr but chicken like. A must see movie is Chicken Run. claymation movie but even more hilarious cause now we have chickens. I love the coo coo coo I hear from the coop.

I hear that sound every night when they sleep