How did your flock annoy you today?

[Beau plus penny]

Poor Penny!

Ik she's sweet and innocent but she will titoe out the coop door if you aren't watching her she's like Cinderella

 

[ChickenChick46]

Ik she's sweet and innocent but she will titoe out the coop door if you aren't watching her she's like Cinderella

Little escape artist.

 

[thecatumbrella]

Scrambling around under my feet screaming that they're STARVING!!! while I'm trying to carry 50 lb bags of feed.

AHHH! YES! Dogs and cats (mostly) seem to learn to get out of the way. Chickens? Never. My husband could easily kill bantams with a misstep, yet they run between his legs while he's walking. We have to shuffle around in there like we our pants.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Although upon further research (and by that I mean watching youtube videos of d'Uccles crowing), it appears it won't change much.

I call the little boys squeaky toys.

 

[ChickenChick46]

I call the little boys squeaky toys.

That's a great comparison! Freaked my cat right out.

 

[Ext 918]

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.

I hadn't thought to isolate her. In reality, I could not bring myself to take her head. This morning, I clapped my hands when she began to screech hysterically, then she stopped for about 10 minutes. Each clap resulted in longer periods between the blood curdling screams. We will see if that corrects the behavior. If not a cardboard box is possibly in her future.

 

[Ext 918]

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 )

A few of mine laugh. I find it adorable.

 

[SkyAJK]

Yesterday afternoon as per usual I let my flock into the general garden and 3 of the hens gang up on the oldest hen in my flock. I picked up my oldest hen to safety.

She was ruling them all, but I moved her into another flock to manage my troublemaker barred rock hen which was very successful, but she is now lost her position in the other flock.

Just when I thought that the bullying is over even just temporary, here arrived a new issue. I read somewhere that to combat this I need put the oldest hen on my lap and feed her while the other look on, this is showing to the rest of the flock that she is Queen. I don't know what else to do so I will give this a try for the rest of this week.

 

[BDutch]

Although upon further research (and by that I mean watching youtube videos of d'Uccles crowing), it appears it won't change much.

Is this a kind of crow that won’t wake my neighbours at 5-am in spring? If so , I do know what my next chicken-math purchase will be.

 

[ChickenChick46]

Is this a kind of crow that won’t wake my neighbours at 5-am in spring? If so , I do know what my next chicken-math purchase will be.

I mean, I guess it depends on how close they are? But really, you could play it off like someone's screen door is squeaking. Lol.

Check this video of an adult out:

Also, if I'm not supposed to post outside links to content that isn't mine, I apologize!