How did your flock annoy you today?

[Ext 918]

A hen has decided to randomly start screaming...from 6 to 9 in the morning. It's not an egg song. No one else is doing it. They have food, scratch, treat block, toys, tent, cool water, etc. I've gone ever her and nothing seems amiss. She's laying fine.

I've decided her name shall be Anne Boleyn, as she is coming close to losing her pretty head. With the weather cooling and the neighbors beginning to open their windows, I'm sure a complaint will be coming in the near future.

 

[BDutch]

That was my hope! That one time that I tossed them some extra bucatini (like hollow fat spaghetti), the chases were legendary! Giant white worms, oh boy!!

My chickens love spaghetti (long white worms), boiled rice (maggots) , and other basic food that reminds them of the real thing.

 

[ChickenChick46]

I'm convinced my bantam EE has it out for me. It's really sweet and is fine with me picking it up. It'll settle into my hand and act like it wants to nap there and be all cute. Then it poops. Every. Time.

 

[SkyAJK]

A hen has decided to randomly start screaming...from 6 to 9 in the morning. It's not an egg song. No one else is doing it. They have food, scratch, treat block, toys, tent, cool water, etc. I've gone ever her and nothing seems amiss. She's laying fine.

I've decided her name shall be Anne Boleyn, as she is coming close to losing her pretty head. With the weather cooling and the neighbors beginning to open their windows, I'm sure a complaint will be coming in the near future.

I have a hen like your, we changed her name from Princess to Big Mouth. She screams for hours on end before her egg laying. Her egg song is short.

A few years back I went down repeatedly to attended to her screaming and I got a fall while I was holding her in my hands, this fall resulted in a knee operation.....her head still intact because I can not bring myself to "Off with the Head" part. ...

The solution we have been using to combat her screaming is put her in a cardboard box for an hour. The box has holes for her to breath. Once she is out and started screaming again, we put her back in for another hour and 2 hours if she screams after she was let out. She does not scream while she is in that box. She eventually learned, once she is out of the box she does not scream again. After she poops breakfast, her egg song is short so we can live with that.

At the moment, we have a new issue, one scream the rest of the flock follow, the nightmare of screaming noise pollution. I put 1 loudest screamer in the box, the rest goes quiet. Pain and just pure pain.

 

[BDutch]

Tonight I counted the arrivals after spreading the evening treats. I always do so before locking the chickens up in the run. 1 chicken was missing.

Walked around, calling Kraai. Checked again. Still missing. Walked around a second time after 10 minutes. Finally I went inside for dinner, worried. Bc the neighbours saw a marten or a polecat a week ago and I knew it wasn’t very safe out to let the chickens free range.

After dinner when it was almost dark I found Kraai inside the playhouse coop. Very strange. She never slept in there and now she roosted in there with 3 other hens.

Kraai definitely wasn’t visible before I closed the run. I still wonder how I could have missed her. She probably stole the invisible mantle from Harry Potter.

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

I have a hen like your, we changed her name from Princess to Big Mouth. She screams for hours on end before her egg laying. Her egg song is short.

A few years back I went down repeatedly to attended to her screaming and I got a fall while I was holding her in my hands, this fall resulted in a knee operation.....her head still intact because I can not bring myself to "Off with the Head" part. ...

The solution we have been using to combat her screaming is put her in a cardboard box for an hour. The box has holes for her to breath. Once she is out and started screaming again, we put her back in for another hour and 2 hours if she screams after she was let out. She does not scream while she is in that box. She eventually learned, once she is out of the box she does not scream again. After she poops breakfast, her egg song is short so we can live with that.

At the moment, we have a new issue, one scream the rest of the flock follow, the nightmare of screaming noise pollution. I put 1 loudest screamer in the box, the rest goes quiet. Pain and just pure pain.

Only one of my chickens has the laughing chicken gene. Unfortunately, the others are mimicking her and now I got a group of half laughing chickens. Sometimes they laugh, sometimes they don't. I don't mind because they only do it while screaming their fluffy butts off, but now I can't tell which one is screaming! ( I can tell, but I'm often not paying enough attention to which is doing a slowed knock-off )