Leghorn Hen EXTREMELY Vocal - Help!

[allieloveschickens]

Congrats on your first egg! My girls can be noisy in the morning and we worried about the neighbors complaining, but so far no one has- they are quiet the rest of the day so I guess everyone is okay a little early morning squawking. Hope your girl settles down for you!

 

[donrae]

FIND OUT if your chickens are legal! You can call anonymously if you want. But why stress yourself being worried if you are, in fact, okay? Who needs more stress?

 

[bakerjw]

We have a White Rock hen who is like that. She'll sit at the edge of the coop and squawk incessantly. She usually does go in and lay an egg but for a while she is a chatterbox.

 

[MaKettle]

My brown leghorn is like that but my Golden Comet is way worse. She's like a freaking opera singer

Usually, one girl works the others up & they all start singing. Sometimes I can hear them in my bedroom (the furthest room away from my coop) with all of the windows closed in my house. They are THAT loud.

I did so much research before I got my illegal chickens but one thing I never picked up on was exactly how loud chickens are! Luckily, I live on a wooded lot near a busy street. I've had illegal chickens for 1 year & have (fingers crossed) never been reported.

Good luck!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Congrats on your first egg. Yeah, my girls were really vocal prior to starting to lay. Now it's only for an hour in morning. About 9 am to 10 am then almost all the eggs are in. Have one quiet RIR, one that's noisy, both leghorns sing a loud egg song and the black star is a bit vocal too. It's up to the chicken and don't think it's a breed thing. It will settle down to hour prior to laying and my neighbors are more amazed at the ruckus that can occur than upset. You'd think a fox was in the run having tea by all the hubabalu going on some mornings.

 

[sharonmmarshall]

This is our first experience with chickens, and our 2 girls are going to be laying any day now (we have no roo). Our Leghorn has a bright red comb and has started squatting.
However, she has also started vocalizing loudly, for a large part of the day. Our chickens free-range, and I have a hunch that our city does not exactly allow backyard chickens. With all the noise, I'm worried the neighbors will complain, and I'll have to give them up.
Will she stop making so much noise once she starts laying? Or will she always be this loud?

 

[sharonmmarshall]

My leghorn sounds like a dinosaur. So I named her, Dino. And when she is laying and another chicken comes in her territory, she really makes a sound from Jurasic Park! But she is the sweetest chicken. The other one has a nice come over and I call her Trump. No need to explain.

 

[Peppercorngal]

I have 25 hens and 3 roosters. In the mornings when most of the laying occurs it's just a pandemonium of egg songs. My loudest hen is my smallest Buff Orpington named Buffy! She sings so loud and gets everyone else involved with her, even the roosters! My friend came over one morning and even though she has 20 hens herself she told me I have the noisiest chickens she's ever heard! This is just until noon. After the laying activity is over you would never know that I have chickens at all. They get so quiet I sometimes get worried! I love all my chickens and wouldn't have it any other way. I live on 20 acres and neighbors are acres and acres away. I don't have a photo of Buffy singing.

 

[DelphiniumBlue]

We have a particularly noisy Black Australorp, and our coop and run is built right along the fence line that separates our backyard from our neighbor's. We give our neighbors some fresh eggs from time to time, and so far no complaints!

 

[featherhead007]

My hen Beetov-Hen, has an egg song that defies reason: sounds like Judy Garlands, "some where over the rainbow" then magically, an egg appears in her nesting box. But she doesn't stop until a human notices and checks for eggs.
For being a chicken, she sure is a ham!