TheYLWFlock
Crowing
Dont get me wrong, I love my chickens a lot, but lately they’ve been screaming their heads off all day everyday, like an egg call except louder and lasts longer. The leader and starter of this activity is my Barred Rock... she’ll scream until I go outside and let them out to free range. So basically they blackmail me into letting them out. Now normally this would only be a matter of annoyance, but our bylaws state that the coop must be 50 feet away from all property lines and 50 feet away from our house... impossible for our property or anyone else’s in my neighbourhood. So we are worried that someone will get fed up with this constant screaming and report to the bylaw officers. So I mentioned that they stop when they get let out... well they have 80 square feet of space in the run for THREE chickens, they have fresh food and water, and a nice coop. So I don’t know what their problem is! Anything I should do to make them quite? Should I add something to their run to make it more fun? Please help!