Loud chicks around 9pm

[Deerpeer]

Just wondering if it’s normal behaviour for chicks to be very loud just before they go to sleep around 9pm.
They have water and food, clean coop, and have been outside almost all day.
We take them inside the living room around 5pm. We have a small cage where they sleep in since we’ve got them.

Is it possible that they need to be in the dark around 7pm? The sun goes down at 8pm. I live in the Netherlands.

They do this every day. They are 5 weeks old.

Does anyone recognise this?

 

[SamuelMcF]

Mine have been doing this but in the early morning. My family keeps saying they must all be roosters

 

[50-45-1]

Im thinking it has something to do with settling down for the night.
Is the light allowed to naturaly fade out or is it abruptly turned off?
If chicks are in a lighted room and a light switch is turned off, it is not a natural gradual way of chickens going to bed, and will leave them startled and disoriented.
Maybe you have a light on them all night?
How old are these chicks?

 

[50-45-1]

Loudness in chicks can be caused also if they are hungry, thirsty or cold any time of day or night.

 

[AppleMomma65]

Mine are 4 weeks and are in a large brooder in our heated basement - they do the same as yours. I make sure they have clean water and food before I stop seeing them for the night - mostly so they have it ready in the a.m. An hour before I go to bed, I turn on a heat lamp pointed into the brooder and I turn the main light off in their room so it's just the heat lamp. When I go and unplug the heat lamp before I go to bed (they have a heat table-thingy that they can go under if cold, plus the floor of the basement is heated), they all chirp loudly but only for a few minutes. When I come down in a.m., they are usually under the heat table-thingy or already walking around. I know they are safe so using my mother instincts, I just walk away after I turn out the last light for the night. Figure they'll figure it out when they get outside.

 

[Deerpeer]

Im thinking it has something to do with settling down for the night.
Is the light allowed to naturaly fade out or is it abruptly turned off?
If chicks are in a lighted room and a light switch is turned off, it is not a natural gradual way of chickens going to bed, and will leave them startled and disoriented.
Maybe you have a light on them all night?
How old are these chicks?

They are 5 weeks old. They are in a lighted room, at 9pm there are still some lights on. We turn the lights of at 11pm. But they are mostly asleep by then.
The loud trjirping is useally from 8:30 till 9:30.

 

[ColoradoPip]

I found if I let the light darken naturally as the sun went down with no artificial light, then the chicks were quiet.

Anything else and they were pretty loud, especially when I turned the light out. Once they taught me what they liked, I let the light expire with the sun and everyone was happy.

 

[Deerpeer]

Loudness in chicks can be caused also if they are hungry, thirsty or cold any time of day or night.

They have food, water and a clean warm spot to sleep. I’m guessing it’s just chick behaviour. Throwing a tantrum because they don’t want to go to sleep

 

[Deerpeer]

I found if I let the light darken naturally as the sun went down with no artificial light, then the chicks were quiet.

Anything else and they were pretty loud, especially when I turned the light out. Once they taught me what they liked, I let the light expire with the sun and everyone was happy.

Thanks! I’m trying this tonight! It’s 7:45pm so I will dimm some lights already