Egg song

[Esc_Quaily]

Sandy has been laying eggs every day since Friday 15th. The eggs look like traditional cream and brown spotty eggs. Her song is not beautiful though she is very noisy before and after laying and she is incredibly high-pitched. Ear shattering!!! Will she always have this "song" or will it change as she ages?

My other guaranteed hen started laying on Sunday 17th and her song is beautiful, she chirps and is not high-pitched. Sandy's song drives me mad. She sounds like she's being murdered.

 

[z3lda3]

Sandy has been laying eggs every day since Friday 15th. The eggs look like traditional cream and brown spotty eggs. Her song is not beautiful though she is very noisy before and after laying and she is incredibly high-pitched. Ear shattering!!! Will she always have this "song" or will it change as she ages?

My other guaranteed hen started laying on Sunday 17th and her song is beautiful, she chirps and is not high-pitched. Sandy's song drives me mad. She sounds like she's being murdered.

Why it’s called an egg song I have no idea, it should the egg scream. I’ve got some hens that screech, some that kind of loudly growl, and others bawk bawk bawk. What’s great (not) is when one hens starts “singing” all the others join in. It sounds like a predator HAS to be in the coop freaking the girls out! Nope just laying. It’s gotten so loud my rooster went in there screaming at the hens. I imagine he was saying “SHUTUP! SHUTUP SHUUUUTUUUUP!”

 

[Esc_Quaily]

Absolutely, far more like an egg scream than a song. Yes, when Sandy starts her screech Phillippa will join in with her song too. The first time it happened I thought there was a predator too! What a racket!!! Every day is a school day as a new quail-keeper

 

[farmer90]

My child named also one of my quails Sandy. She's from my first hatch and one of his favourites. But talking about the egg song, I find quails much more pleasant than chicken. I haven't encountered a screeching quail so far. I liked how someone once described this sound in an old post here (that I'm unable to find) like a 'bomb in a cartoon is falling down."

 

[Esc_Quaily]

My child named also one of my quails Sandy. She's from my first hatch and one of his favourites. But talking about the egg song, I find quails much more pleasant than chicken. I haven't encountered a screeching quail so far. I liked how someone once described this sound in an old post here (that I'm unable to find) like a 'bomb in a cartoon is falling down."

Yep child number 3 named Sandy. I wouldnt describe Sandy like a 'bomb in a cartoon falling' I will record Sandy and post it so you can hear a screeching quail, honestly her "song" is very eh.. painful to hear and she loves to sing during the laying process.

 

[z3lda3]

Yep child number 3 named Sandy. I wouldnt describe Sandy like a 'bomb in a cartoon falling' I will record Sandy and post it so you can hear a screeching quail, honestly her "song" is very eh.. painful to hear and she loves to sing during the laying process.

I never understood that. If I was laying eggs, and predators ate the eggs (and myself) I’d lay quietly. Why do they announce it to the world?!

 

[farmer90]

I would love to hear that annoying screeching sound as I've never heard it from my quails

 

[Susan Skylark]

Mine sound like whistling fireworks, the only weirder sound they make is an adolescent male trying to crow, sounds like a stepped on frog!

 

[Nabiki]

I never understood that. If I was laying eggs, and predators ate the eggs (and myself) I’d lay quietly. Why do they announce it to the world?!

Quail egg song is a LOT quieter than chickens. To me it sounds more like a whine of pain rather than a proud announcement. It's a high pitched sound that doesn't carry far.

 

[z3lda3]

Quail egg song is a LOT quieter than chickens. To me it sounds more like a whine of pain rather than a proud announcement. It's a high pitched sound that doesn't carry far.

Awww the poor babies! I wouldn’t know, but I bet quail eggs are tiny!