We have 28 hens, all of which are laying right now. We hear that call LOUDLY all the time. I've rushed into the hen house to catch one of them laying since we really don't know who's laying which egg, and often it will be a big stinker hen standing on a perch yelling her head off. I've yet to find a correlation between the Bawk bawk bawk and laying an actual egg. Mine seem to yell their heads off before they lay, and then stay quiet after that.
Also, if your nest boxes are nice and quiet, I don't think you need to worry about finding eggs all over the property. We get an egg under the hen house every once in a great while, and one or so a week on the floor near the nest boxes, but almost every egg is laid in the nest boxes and we have over 8 acres for them to roam around (of course, they really just want to poop on my back porch, little beasties).
Erika
Also, if your nest boxes are nice and quiet, I don't think you need to worry about finding eggs all over the property. We get an egg under the hen house every once in a great while, and one or so a week on the floor near the nest boxes, but almost every egg is laid in the nest boxes and we have over 8 acres for them to roam around (of course, they really just want to poop on my back porch, little beasties).
Erika