Who Needs a Rooster When You have 3 Adolescent Pullets???

[carlf]

6:21 am this morning, the only morning I can sleep in, all three of my 15 week old pullets decided it was a good time to practice their Egg Song for the first time.
Needless to say, they wont be starring in Pitch Perfect III.
Cant decide if it was beautiful music or the most gosh awful noise I have ever heard.

 

[Pork Pie]

Its always the latter, for me

 

[EggSighted4Life]

It HAS to happen on your only day to sleep in.

That's nice and young to start practicing. I have 3 layers right now that don't even sing.

 

[carlf]

My older hens dont sing anymore either.

 

[donrae]

And so many folks think hens are just nice, quiet creatures

 

[EggSighted4Life]

And so many folks think hens are just nice, quiet creatures

Oh my..... you should hear my White Crested Black Polish, the loudest chick I have ever had and NEVER shuts up! Her regular peeps are so loud she always sounds distressed. With time I can tell the difference.

Glad my LFS guy demonstrated a guinea hen call before I ended up with that nightmare.

One of my goats sounds like a 5 year old throwing a fit at the top of his lungs occasionally. And the other sounds like a two year old calling out "mommm". They are around 3 months. They seem fine all week and all day.... until I feel a nap coming on! Just like kids. Took a while for them and my neighbors to settle down. They initially did that for long periods of time after separating from their original mom/heard. Now, ONLY if I wanna nap!

I never thought about hens annoying people. But boy mine are always chatting. And sometimes they join in egg songs even though they didn't lay.

 

[aart]

Am suffering the pullet chorus these last couple days.....GEEEZZZZZ!!!

YAK!YAK!YAK!YAK!YAK!YAK!YAK!YAK!YAK!YAK!YAK!!!!!

Trying to dig right thru the bottom of the nests!

First one started laying about 10 days ago.
Think 2 more started yesterday...GAWD what a cacophony !!!

I tell them SHUT UP, Sit Down, and Put Out!!
They don't listen to me tho....SMH.

 

[speckledhen]

6:21 am this morning, the only morning I can sleep in, all three of my 15 week old pullets decided it was a good time to practice their Egg Song for the first time.
Needless to say, they wont be starring in Pitch Perfect III.
Cant decide if it was beautiful music or the most gosh awful noise I have ever heard.

That's why I got my first rooster all those years ago, though originally, I had not intended to have one. I figured if the girls were going to caterwaul like that, advertising they were up here, might as well add another voice. Now, I couldn't live without my boys.

 

[speckledhen]

And so many folks think hens are just nice, quiet creatures

HAHAHA! Yeah, right. They make more noise than any rooster I've ever owned. In fact, even with 8 roosters, the hens still out wail them.

 

[freepebs2016]

Is there anyway to tell whether a rooster is fertile or not?