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Alohacayo
Songster
Hmmm, so another noisy one that’s a good layer… that’s really interesting.I've got a talker, too. She's the best layer I have so I ignore her. She talks all the time. Talks to the ground, talks to my feet, talks to the nest box, talks to her egg, talks to the other chickens. And sometimes she talks to nothing at all, or maybe she's chatting to the wind, sun, stars...
Mine don’t go any louder when they get “extras”. But Carla is similar to yours, the mouth is going at just about everything, if no people are around. If people nearby she just stalks the fence watching you. That’s why I never connected her going silent with having a pile of greens. She’d already go silent if you went out there, and we’re out there a lot. Yard is small & I’m in process of removing the grass (dead anyway, grass is stupid in the desert & I’m not paying to water it), building raised beds, planting etc.
@ChickenMumAbi & @aart - lol, yes, it was so weird I’ve spent many hours trying to figure out if her weird noises were normal…there’s been a few people on here that ask about barking, but I can’t find anything else for info. Bc she never acted ill, grew normally, laid early, I just chalked it up to that’s her voice. I didn’t mention it to the fam bc I thought I was nuts. Over the course of a few months, they’d hear her on the camera, or be sitting in the house and hear it… seeing all the dogs in the house, eyes would go funny & they’d ask “is that the chicken?”
It’s been a trip.