Need advice on loud chicken!

[apc1mkc]

You could try distracting your squawker something tasty while her friend is laying.

GREAT idea! tks!

 

[DesertBird]

My Barred Rock pullets are extremely loud, too. They each have their own nesting box, fresh bedding, no bugs, private place, etc. but they desperately want to lay in this one nest they made themselves. Whenever one girl is in it laying an egg, suddenly the 5 others need to lay at that exact moment, too, so it's just extremely loud in my yard from about 5 AM to whenever the girls decide they want to quiet down. They're louder than my 3 cockerel's! Maybe just go out and see your loud girl while she's squawking, spend a bit of time with her, etc. - mine quiet down when I go out to see them or when I open the blinds.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Hens gonna squawk. IMO the only thing you can do is sound proof the coop as much as you can.

 

[DesertBird]

Maybe you can look into those pads people use to soundproof their own homes? The little black ones I've seen YouTubers use with like the ridges. Not sure if they're expensive, and they might make the coop hotter, too.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Maybe you can look into those pads people use to soundproof their own homes? The little black ones I've seen YouTubers use with like the ridges. Not sure if they're expensive, and they might make the coop hotter, too.

That exposed stuff wouldn't last long with chickens. Soundproofing would have to be protected. Insulation covered with siding would probably be the best.

 

[JedJackson]

It's odd that it's the non-laying hen that's doing the squawking. Normally, after a hen lays an egg she will squawk and of course the rest of the flock has to join in. This hen seems to be disturbed by her buddy laying an egg. Probably the best advice is from the person who suggested distracting her with a treat.

 

[andreanar]

My girls used to all stand around the nests and scream and sing everytime one laid an egg.

 

[aart]

All chickens can be loud, not just cock/erels.

Especially pullets just coming into lay, but even full grown hens can create quite the chaotic cacophonous concert when one or more is laying.....
.... or about to lay.... or just finished laying.

Last summer I had 10 pullets coming into lay,
have never heard so much bird racket in my life,
they are still bunch of yakkers on some days.

 

[andreanar]

Its Not the one laying that is making the noise.

I know, I meant, in my experience, even the ones not laying the egg, seem to stand around and "cheer" on the one laying.

 

[Isaac 0]

I know, I meant, in my experience, even the ones not laying the egg, seem to stand around and "cheer" on the one laying.

^ Exactly.

If one of my hens get in the nesting box all the others make a big kerfuffle about it.I really dont thinks it because she is lonley.Thats just what hens do nothing you can do to stop it.Is she singing the egg song or just squawking?