PLEASE HELP!

[Chickenlovers6]

My chickens recently laid their first eggs (yesterday) and just now they started clucking VERY loudly. I'm scared the neighbors will get annoyed so I need answers FAST. Is this normal? Why are they doing it? Can I help them in any way?

 

[GitaBooks]

It is very loud!! I find it as loud as a rooster crow!

Its called the egg song, the hens make it before or after laying an egg. There isn't really any way to stop it.

 

[Chickenlovers6]

Oh my goodness! Thank you soooo much! When will they stop a session of loud clucking before starting their next after laying another egg? Is a session like, five minutes long? Or 10? Or 2? And so on.

 

[Chickenlovers6]

Sorry, that was confusing. Nvrmnd. Thank you so much!!!

 

[GitaBooks]

Some do it for less then a minute, others for a few minutes, but usually they don't do it more then that.

 

[Chickenlovers6]

Ok. Thanks again! They stopped now. I thought they were sick or something. THANK YOU!!!

 

[ChickenMammX4]

Yes, hens can be very loud. Our coop is probably 700' from our house and we can sometimes hear them "singing" the egg song. Our nearest neighbor is our daughter & son-in-law, so no worries but I can understand your worry. Maybe offer your neightbor free eggs, then they may come to appreciate the "song".

 

[aart]

Hens can be very loud, sometimes just around the time they are laying, sometimes for hours at a time.
I have a couple screamers, yakyakyakyak!