Noisy Hens, - their last chance....

[mkeawsh]

Sounds like mine. When one hen lays an egg and starts the process of sqwauking they all join in and it can last a loooooong time. I can sympathize with you. When I was a kid we lived in a suburb of St. Louis and we just had one Bantam rooster and two hens and the neighbors couldn't handle that single rooster crowing in the morning. I have not answers. My mom and dad who both grew up on farms tell me that this is normal for chickens.

 

[FlyingCircusFarms]

Our Americauna pullet gets noisy near egg-laying time so her bawking is a moving target. Mabel would bawk to announce her egg and then progeessively more and more after. We would run out and tell her to shut up and give her some scratch or treats to break things up. But soon she started bawking for the reward. What appears to work is a gentle squirt of the hose. Now, when she starts getting bawky, we come out and cool her off a bit (just a little bit). It has largely solved our noise problem. She's still nice to me so I don't see any permanent psychological damage.