Very LOUD Hen!

[4 luv of eggs]

I have a Partridge Rock who doesn't know when to shut up. She sounds like a laughing seagull and she's always in your face and business. The minute I go in the coop, she's there blathering about whatever. She cracked me up yesterday. I brought some leftover roast beef and the usual keep away began. Everyone was in a frenzy but she got herself so worked up. She just stood there and bawked and bawked....each one louder than the last until she was louder than I've ever heard her. Then out of nowhere she sticks her right foot in her mouth and stops. Huh? I guess she realized that she said too much and had to stifle herself.

 

[HeritageHens]

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They have you well trained, don't they?

 

[maurerwerks]

Hi - I have 11 fourteen week old girls (and 1 rooster). This weekend I clearly (and loudly) heard the egg song being sung. I ran out and stood there while she continued to strut around and bawk, bawk, bawk, bawk, gaBAWKed. She is a SLW. This is way too early to expect anything other than noise - right?

 

[stonykill]

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They have you well trained, don't they?

yup, all my hens and roosters are spoiled.

 

[kla37]

The way it should be!

 

[DomesticGoddess]

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Mine do this too, it's hilarious! Mind you, I have 24 hens and it can get pretty noisy around the hen house. I think your little hen is thinking about laying, I bet you'll have an egg soon! Good luck

 

[HHandbasket]

I am so happy I found this thread because the reason I got online this morning was to post and ask if everybody's hen was this loud when they start laying! My leghorn started laying last week, and boy oh boy, if my neighbors didn't know I had chickens previously, they sure do know it now! I think people in Minnesota can hear her, she's so loud.

Here is my question for you more experienced chickeneers: Do some breeds have a tendency to be noisier than others? As a general rule of thumb, my EE has a quiet, subdued cluck & I *think* she's making the egg song because it's the same vocal pattern that the leghorn made; but it's quieter, almost under-her-breath. She's also been going into the henhouse and rearranging the nesting material lately, so I know she's getting ready to lay (she's only 26 weeks so it's about bloody time).

 

[chick4chix]

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As someone else said on this thread earlier- they tend to settle in and get a little quieter as time goes on - but my loudmouth continued cackling for months- for any reason or no reason whatsoever. Now she is molting (and so are all the rest) and she and the rest are sooooo quiet I seriously would not know even I had chickens. I guess they realize they are vulnerable during a molt- or maybe they just dont' have the energy to strut and chat- they are too busy growing feathers.

As far as breeds go- it is my EE who is the loudest and the other 3 EE's are not. I have a SLW who lays her eggs in complete silence- before, during and after ( I wouldn't even know she had done so, if I hadn't watched her). and another Wyandotte who does a small "song" right after while she is still on the nest, but NOTHING like the serenade the EE does! They are all individuals - and isn't it fun observing their behaviors?

 

[4 luv of eggs]

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My leghorns don't have a word to say. Neither do my Production Reds, White Rocks nor my Buff Orpingtons. These girls are all lower on the totem pole. My Partridge Rocks are the loudest, followed by my Black Australorps and my Silver Laced Wyandotte. Maybe it has to do with the pecking order since that's pretty much my flock's dynamics.

 

[allieloveschickens]

Well there was no egg last night, and this morning the girls were quiet again. Maybe Dottie was just feeling noisy yesterday- still hoping for an egg soon though!!