VERY Vocal Chickens

[LI chickie]

I've only had my chickens since April and I'm still learning their language! Most of the time it's soft cooing or clucking. I laugh when I try to imitate them they get quiet and look at me like huh?

 

[Cuccismith]

You will fall in love with your chickens! But, If you spoil them they will beg! And how can we not spoil them? ha! Mine are about two years and I have a song that I too imitated from their "talk" and they come running every time I sing it! So be silly and talk the chicken way! : ) Happy day to you

 

[Cackleking]

My chickens have become very vocal recently, i do not have a rooster just 3 RIR's and 1 Mille Fleur bantam. It seems like they make a crazy amount of noise when they want to come out of the coop. Like yesterday, it was raining crazy so i put them in their coop just really because i didnt want them tearing up the yard more than they normally do. they just stood at the door skwaking like i had murdered someone!

Do they skwawk when they want something? are they just beligerant? I have heard people on here claiming that their chickens "talk" i am wondering if others have stupigly loud chickens with no apparent reason? Can i stop them being noisy? Are they like dogs inasmuch that if you give them what they want when they are misbehaving it reinforces the "bad" behaviour?

Help, i dont want to annoy the neighbours!

They just want to get out and not be caged up - just like you wouldn’t want to be stuck in a cage. Chickens make lots of noise, just like humans..,,,