Egg songs are changing my mind nabout getting hens

[mom22alcorns]

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[kaybats]

I'm just curious....if anyone has an adversity to 'noise' or lives in an area where that might be a problem, WHY in the world would they be looking to keep 'farm' animals?

If you love it enough, move somewhere it is 'acceptable'.

I DID.

 

[Yay Chicks!]

Ya' know, when my birds first started laying I was mortified by how loud they were. I thought for sure the neighbors were going to have a fit. Then I got used to it so I would guess the neighbors did too. (No one ever mentioned it and my neighbors are close by). Now I just love to hear it.

 

[yellowirenut]

neighbors dogs are louder than my hens egg song.

 

[pipsmom]

I think there is a difference between noise and what some neighbors will accept for noise. I personally would love to hear a chicken singing an egg song as opposed to the construction noise that my neighbors behind me have had for the last 4 months every day. Or a dog barking nonstop throughout the day. But some people in suburban neighborhoods don't like the sound of a chicken? I certainly hear lots of noise but worry about neighbors not accepting the noise of a chicken. I am allowed to have them but have some neighbors that would prefer the sound of chain saws or bulldozers over the sound of a chicken. I am sure I could have a bulldozer in my backyard for months without worrying about a neighbor but the sound of a chicken might send one off.

 

[kaybats]

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[pipsmom]

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Exactly!! And they go on all day!

 

[kaybats]

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Exactly!! And they go on all day!

My neighbor, too! She leaves at 4:30 a.m. I can almost set my watch by that. And the one dog, out of three, that she keeps outside, BARKS from the time she leaves, til the time she comes home. It surprises me that the dog has any vocal cords left.

 

[mommissan]

I live on a highway and the day is filled with the roar of logging trucks and tractor trailers at times. Benefits? The road noise drowns out the sounds of the flock and the monstrous trucks whizzing by scare the bugeezus out of the birds when they free-range and they run away from the road.

 

[pipsmom]