traffic jam in the nest... loudly complaining hen/s and possibly, soon, the neighbhors

[nok13]

i have a red hen, probably a leghorn mix with something, she's a rescue that someone litterly dumped at the botanical gardens here, and daughter brought her home. the other hen, i tried to rescue, didnt make it... anyhow, this hen has been a decent layer of creamy beigish eggs... lately she seems to be a bit 'broody'... growliing a lot under her beak, but mostly either screeching for hours while standing on their coop rock, and/or in the nest box 'setting'... i throw her out of the box but every morning at 6 a/m (today we moved to summer time), for the past week, i hear all the hens screeching/complaining.

today iwent out to see if its an invader. its not. its the redish (cinnaomon sort of ) hen, setting in the community nest. and all the leghorns and the RIR standing in line. complaiining very very vocally.
\ just like our clients at the hotel who hate to stand in line quietly and always make a ruckus... they all want to lay also. but she's in there. after several times that i fling her out, she stays out... now, i dont shut the coop door; they have their very small yard but lots of 'furniture' and food stations/water stations, so its not bordom... but even my downstairs neighbhor mentioned that she is very noisy, and the pot should maybe have a chicken in it for second pesach dinner this sunday.

ive tried to make a second nest. noone wants it. they are kibbutz inspired i guess, so community box it is. any suggestions? ive got to stop the screeching. i will probably be turning the two shnitzels to shnitzel tomorrow, since theya re getting bigger fatter heavier and eating a ton, but no eggs. id rather introduce two more layers in place, preferably something quiet.

oop... there she goes again. tis the late evening, the sun is setting, and she is screeching... its really raucous like a crow/raven , not a cockadoodledoo type crow... its grating on the nerves... i could even try taping it.... it certainly got me out of bed this morning in spite of my cell phone alarm not going off due to time switch....

 

[chfite]

Are you sure that the racket you are hearing is not the egg song? My chickens can raise quite a fuss when one lays an egg. The first time that I heard them all together, I thought something was wrong, too.

Chris

 

[nok13]

not the egg song... she doesnt stop.... the others also grumble and complain but she is the main noise maker... its a constant screechy sound... not the danger squawk or the fighting about food squawk but just a general complaining screechy squawk, today i caught her complaining even when they were settling down for the night... she patrols and squawks and talks with her beak full also.... the other red hen also complains a bit more noisily then the leghorns, and there is one major 'head' leghorn hen that also speaks loudly but nothing like this, its really really annoying.

she's a pretty hen, and a rescue but im worried that now that the weather has heated up and we all have open windows, someone is going to hear her and complain, egg bribes or not.

... seeing as how there is a meat chicken coop behind the living areas of our kibbutz, at the moment noone is paying attention, but once folks are outdoors more, they will hear its from MY small, backyard coop and not from the battery coop (which is no longer owned by the kibbutz but rented out, his feeder makes a racket at 4 a/m. and when they catch the chickens or bring in chicks also a racket).
i thought it was because they were all waiting in line to lay, but its not that.
im considering donating her to my garage guy (for a discount he gave me, if i give him some layers), and finding a quieter hen. could be thats the reason why she was dumped in the first place? would pekin/cuchin bantam size hens get along with my leghorns? are they quieter? or is this just a personality problem?

 

[EweSheep]

She is a noise maker, better give her away to a good home very soon! Hens like that won't last long in my backyard either.