Egg songs are changing my mind nabout getting hens

[kaybats]

OP...I hope you are 'really' changing your mind.

 

[Zonoma]

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That's because they're planning to eat you....

Nom. Nom. Nom.

 

[lcammack]

We have 8 hens 3 BR's, 3 EE's, and 2 BLR's (not laying yet). We only have one that does the egg song and it is one of the EE's named Owlie (because she looked like a owl as a chick). Other than her we never know when someone has layed so it just depends on each individual. Good luck!

 

[Sore Thumb Suburbanite]

ok, so I'll order several species and weed out the loudest. I am within the ordinances-which are extremely vague-keeping my birds, I'm just relatively new to my neighborhood-husband bought our house 2 years ago- and I don't want my neighbors to hate me.

As far as noise goes, I got poultry knowing that they didn't stand a chance competing against the giant-scale all night permitted hospital addition constuction, the two neighbors on the block who work with machinery in their garages all day every day, the 2-3 dogs to a yard that bark incessantly all day and sometimes all night, the mocking birds, wild parrots, crows, 3 major freeways within 1/2 mile and the fire station down the road, and the trashy nighbors across the way who fight outside on their lawn and the macaw two doors down.

I guess I want quieter birds because I already have a goose.

Kaybats: One day, when My husband and I retire: 25years or so from now, we'll have a nice farm property & poutlry will be just the begginning...& noise won't matter at all, but we were lucky to buy a home at all (we're in our 20s) and we live where my husband has a job, pets/poultry take a back seat to our income.

 

[debid]

My BA was quiet as a church mouse right up until she was ready to start laying. And then she got LOUD. Every little thing was cause for boisterous conversation. BUT, she was also the only loud girl out of 9 in my assorted pullet mix.

 

[TheSpiceGirls]

I have a JG and a BO and both sing the egg song and the other will chime in. It's kind of loud but they usually sing for 3-5 minutes and then they are done.

The neighbor's dogs bark all day long.

So it used to bother me and now I rather enjoy it.

 

[pgpoultry]

We have deafening egg songs here (thankfully no close neighbours).

My bunch split into 2 or 3 groups on leaving the coops, one by the house, one by the ag. shed (about 200 yards away) and the other midway. They egg song back and forth whenever an egg is laid, they are startled, or when there is an R in the month. One starts and EVERYBODY (50 plus chickens) joins in, hens, pullets, roos. and even the chicks try. Oh man!

 

[TheSpiceGirls]

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[superchemicalgirl]

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I'll just chime in with my two cents... go tell them you're getting chickens. I think it will be easier for them knowing this is the noise they hear than wondering what it is and what you're up to.

That being said, my girls are INCREDIBLY loud in the early morning when laying. My neighbors on both sides claim to not be able to hear them unless they're outside. True to form, I can't hear them if my windows are closed. I also just put 6 roosters to freezer camp - I couldn't hear them either through closed windows, but they drove me nuts with the windows open. I'd rather hear that though than any urban noise.

Also interestingly, my speckled sussex is the loudest of the bunch (and my favorite, so full of personality) - she will scream at the top of her lungs if she's in the run and I'm outside in her line of vision. If I let her out of the run she will follow me around loudly chatting to me until I go inside. She's also tried to follow me into the house on more than one occasion.

 

[clucksbc]

I have a black austrolp
overall she is quite regal...and quiet...
if she is upset about something she can be quite vocal...
gets the whole hen house in an uproar...
I just got a light susex...
and a birchin...which is crossed light susex and sexlink black star...
so far they seem really quiet...but at 15 weeks i haven't heard there egg laying song so can't say 4 sure...