what time do your chickens get up?

[Doormantnt]

My six ladies are all waiting "patiently" LOL...at 6:00 am when I let them out (wife is not happy with alarm clock on weekend LOL). All off roost, and 12 beady little eyes looking thru a 12"x16" door....And all down the ramp, and "inspecting" run for treats before I can get back the the door 16' away. It is pretty comical.
They all have also been putting them self to bed since day one in the coop. like clockwork at 8:15, they all file back up the ramp, and right onto the roosts. I usually close and latch the door between 9:30 and 10, but they are just cackeling on the roost like a bunch of school girls. I don't know if they ever actually sleep.

TNT

 

[annie3001]

so funny ! all your cute stories about getting up in the am with the chickens and all! most seem to be about 6am wow early at my household!

 

[Karrie13]

My girls are waiting for me to let them out at 6:15 in the morning when I take the dogs out for a walk. They are lined up on the lower roost looking out the window and the first one that sees me “talks” to the others then they all start talking. I think they are telling me to HURRY UP! They all look forward to their fresh grass I give them each morning.

At night they put themselves to bed about dusk and I will go anytime after that and lock them up.

 

[2DogsFarm]

My girls are up at 6A when I go out to start feeding animals.
goldfish in the pond first, then the girls in the coop.
Usually at least 3 of the 5 are already up & waiting for me to let them out. sometimes I have to provide "limo service" to the sleepyheads and carry them from the roost where they sit complaining until I do.

They turn in early too.
I go to close up the coop for the night around 8 or 9P and they are all roosting by then, making sleepy chicken "You Woke Me!" noises.

I'm wondering if the shorter days of Fall & Winter will affect their patterns.
I am learning chickens are truly creatures of habit!

 

[startingaflock]

I have 5 hens and 1 rooster. I usually hear the rooster about 6am but my mother in law (who is here every other weekend) tells me they wake her up earlier than that!!

 

[crazyhen]

I wake early and its not light yet so I hear the roo crow and flap his wings first at 5:30 or 6am. When I go to let them out at daylight they are still slow to come out of the coop. Lazy bones some times. they don't go in at night until dark. My Moms hens on the coast of NC. go to the coop to roost early in the evening around 5 pm but get up much earlier too. go figure. Gloria Jean

 

[joedie]

I have absolutely no idea when they get up because I don't go out to let them out until I get up around 7:30-8:00. They are all crowded around the door waiting to get out. I'll let you know tomorrow when I have to go back to work!

 

[mrbstephens]

I let mine out at 8:00 am because the rooster crowing is somewhat muffled when he's in the hen house. I don't want my neighbors to get mad.

 

[M To The Maxx]

I let my chickens out at 8 a.m. every morning.

 

[fordmommy]

I let mine out about 8am-9:30am. They have a big coop and they have been wake. But no one's in a hurry to get out. I look in the window and they are all chilling on the ground, resting. But mine aren't laying yet. Hatched in March. Maybe that will all change once they start to lay.