what time do your chickens get up?

[jwchicklady]

I let mine out around 8:00 or 9:00am, they are quiet until they hear me coming and then they start clucking.

 

[cmom]

I have an electric fence around my coop, run and chicken yard. I don't shut my birds in at night. I leave their pop door open 24/7 they go out in the mornings when it first starts to get light out and go in onto to their roosts in the eventings before dark.

 

[Kat'sChicks]

My silkie roo, Blarney, starts his song at 5:15 every morning. Within another 15 minutes everyone is standing at the door to the coop waiting to go out to explore. They don't always get turned out that early, but there's feed in the coop as well as water, and enough space so they don't pick on each other.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I have no idea what time my chickens get up because I am sleeping. During the week, I open the coop doors at 6am. On the weekend, they're lucky if I open the coop doors at 7am. By 7am they are fussing and fighting to get out of their coops to free range. When I open the coop door, it's like the old movie "The Birds" when those birds were attacking that lady ( i forgot her name). It's chickens flying EVERYWHERE and I have to run and duck for cover. It's a funny sight to see. lol

 

[Junkmanme]

My chickens "come and go" in or out of their Coop at their own pleasure. (Or, perhaps, I should say: at the Rooster's pleasure.)

For decades, I've become "accustomed" to awakening at about 4 AM (bad habit from "working days"). I'm always "up" before my Rooster.

When my Rooster crows, I know that daylight is starting. That's when I decide about breakfast. (I've already had the first of my coffee..might make another pot.......)

When my rooster crows for about the third time, the Sun is peeking over the Eastern Horizon and the coffee has stimulated my system well enough that I can make "scrambled eggs" in about 5 seconds of "shaking".

I sit down, relax, and then decide IF my body can tolerate MORE COFFEE. Ii AaLlWwAaYySs DeCiDe Yyyeessss.

Then the hens come out..and the darn radio starts a NEWS program that doesn't have any NEWS on it.

So, I go outside with the dogs and smell the FRESH MORNING AIR.

TTHHEnn I ggo hhave ssomemmore COFFEEE!

 

[annie3001]

funny thing about coffee too!!!! its so addicting!!!!!!!

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

We usually let ours out around 7:30 - 8 but sometimes it's closer to 9, especially lately with so much fog and cold weather.

Coffee comes first; then chickens!

 

[Monk]

My birds are generally up at the crack of dawn, just like me!
Evenings, sometimes early, other times not til nearly dark???

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'd say mine used to get up around 6:30. But I'd let them out at 7:00 and they were all ready to come out. (like the movie here too)

Now I have an automatic door, so I have no idea when they get up. I think it's about 6:00, maybe a little before.

 

[English Chick]

6.30am ..... and they are wide awake and waiting... in the winter it's 9.00am