PRoblem with whining chickens

[csaylorchickens]

I have two that just jabber all dang day. The rest are quiet as heck. One only makes one loud squak when I go outside to say hi, it's like she is saying hi lol adorable. Luckily my neighbors are tolerant. They have a huge run and I let them free range early am and late evening. Some are just loud and that's it.

 

[cmycook]

I have noticed a high pitch whiNE from several of my chickens, intermittently throughout the day. Once one chick does it, a few more join in. Doesn't matter if they're in the coop or out in the yard. I'm not sure if they're communicating with each other or trying to tell me something. They all appear healthy. All are approximately 7 months old, a few have just began to lay.

 

[mmwv]

I do not let my chickens out until they have had time to lay their eggs in their nest boxes. And that’s usually not till well after noon.

But they wake up and get out of their coop at zero dark thirty and squawk their stupid heads off. They are not bored, they are pissed.

Sometimes I give them something to scratch around at in their pen to shut him up for a while but mostly, I just ignore them.

I’m all like, “Ladies aren’t going anywhere until the job is done. Squawk all you like. My heart bleeds for you. Really.”

Sick and tired of roaming all around my property trying to find my eggs because the girls thought it would be neato to make a super sneaky, way cool, secret nest spot at some random place on my property that my dog finds first and then devours the eggs.

 

[Goldenlaced_keeper]

I do have tree branches in the run...
I am a little worried about letting them out to forage unsupervised, since I found that the bantam Mille Fleurs are able to fly pretty high, and I found one sitting on top of the 6 ft fence,...she could have gone into an adjacent yard and disappeared. I also have had trouble with unsupervised chickens pulling up new plants. And I don't have time to stay out there and supervise them for an hour a day while they are out. But, if it appeases the whining, I suppose I could try to let them out in the late afternoon more often.

You won't have to worry about one chicken wandering off. If she does she won't go far. They don't want to be apart from the flock.