No, haha! We have a young pullet blue Ameraucana who was named piyo because she would nonstop make noise but not scream. She's mellowed out a lot on the noise!
With Worldie, she was adopted at two and a half months old, as some of our flock is. She immediately got her name from my list of possible names. You'd know by now if she was an alert chicken like mine is. She isn't unnecessarily loud and doesn't respond to planes or non-dangerous wild bird calls like some other chickens might. Some chickens make the "panic call" in response to needing to lay their egg, but usually it sounds like a song or can even be very quiet.
Either way, zero noise complaints from the neighbors! I've apologized for if they hear noises, but neither say they have heard her. Frankly, I can hear her just fine indoors, but she doesn't do it more than two times a day. One for her egg and one for a cat on the roam.
(take the noise complaints with a grain of salt, one house has two dogs and the other has three elementary-school kids, I wonder if their eardrums have popped yet!)
He was telling me they'd lay any day now when it was a few weeks before any started doing what I call the "potty dance." Due to my set up, I had to move them to the laying box. Australorps have similar laying periods to my birds, and should be laying around 22-24 weeks. It could be as early as 18 weeks, but I highly doubt it! Again, one of my girls was super early and laid on 20 weeks. Also, some eggs might not be edible. The first egg out of my current problem (screamer) child was shell-less/soft-shelled and popped in the bedding.
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