Help my neighbor said my chickens are being loud :(

[Melky]

Given your situation, you may want to consider switching from chickens to quail.
Quail are very quiet and only need a fraction of the space a hen would require, they lay lots of beautiful egg starting at about 8 weeks old.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=quail+eggs&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

Celadon quail lay greenish eggs with spots. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=celadon+quail+eggs&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

Beautiful.

 

[MIgardengal]

@LaFleche You know I actually would love quail, but the local feed mill only offered chickens. I recently got a McMurry magazine and was looking at the quail in the future I might consider ordering some from there.

 

[MIgardengal]

@Brenda Jones thats a sweet set up! I will tell the hubby about that. On occasion I drive through Sualt Ste Marie because the flights from Canada are cheaper!!! I live in between Marquette and Munising so about a 2.5 hr drive from you I think.

 

[Kholts]

I definitely feel that because chickens or ducks for that matter aren’t something that people are used to seeing everyday (because they live in a city,town, hamlet) or they haven’t grown up with...they tend to complain more...

A dog barking or cats meowing people are kind of desensitized too because dogs/cats are everywhere & have been for ages. Where a chicken sings a song that persons ear catches it because it’s different...

Your going to have to address the issue. I would definitely let her know that you are working on it & let her know how you plan on working towards a solution.

Sound barriers would be great & rehoming the ring leader may be a necessity.

 

[RiverOtter]

@LaFleche You know I actually would love quail, but the local feed mill only offered chickens. I recently got a McMurry magazine and was looking at the quail in the future I might consider ordering some from there.

Most people who get into quail get a small incubator and start by buying hatching eggs online. There are quail farms that specialize in that and quail eggs have a much better hatch rate when shipped than chicken eggs do.

 

[Brenda Jones]

@Brenda Jones thats a sweet set up! I will tell the hubby about that. On occasion I drive through Sualt Ste Marie because the flights from Canada are cheaper!!! I live in between Marquette and Munising so about a 2.5 hr drive from you I think.

@MIgardengal, That's awesome that you are so close. I go up to Marquette every so often. We have some friends in Houghton too. I would like to give the girls a larger roost and nesting area, but we had to get something quick as we got them in late summer, so we just got a coop from Tractor Supply... they REALLY over estimated how many standard sized hens the coop could hold or I have giant chickens

 

[JacinLarkwell]

@MIgardengal, That's awesome that you are so close. I go up to Marquette every so often. We have some friends in Houghton too. I would like to give the girls a larger roost and nesting area, but we had to get something quick as we got them in late summer, so we just got a coop from Tractor Supply... they REALLY over estimated how many standard sized hens the coop could hold or I have giant chickens

They use industrial mesurments, which are between 18 and 24 inches per bird

 

[Kevin_87]

Get a really loud rooster and show her the difference for a few days.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Rehome the choir leader.

Yep. I just had to re-home two RIR’s, one I hatched, because they were aggressive and LOUD. Not just the egg song, just loud chatter all day long. I got an automatic door on the coop to open early because if they woke up and couldn’t get out they were insane. Everything has settled down. My re-home traded me two Easter pullets for the RIR’s.

 

[Xouie]

@LaFleche You know I actually would love quail, but the local feed mill only offered chickens. I recently got a McMurry magazine and was looking at the quail in the future I might consider ordering some from there.

There are always bunches of coturnix quail on my local Craigslist. You could try that. The boys have a fairly quiet infrequent crow (provided you don’t have a bunch of them) — they stand up tall and yell “Look-at-meee!”. The hens are almost silent. They make a cricket chirp noise when distressed. But oh, their egg song — it’s such a soft, beautiful, almost mournful sound. I could listen to that all day.