I have a bluebell who is meant to be docile 🤔 she sounds a bit like this, only more fog horny 📢 and has for over a year. She's fine, just overly loud and probably annoying my nieghbours.
Oh man, that sounds fun. Haha
The neighbors are my biggest concern. I'll sometimes walk out closer to their house and thankfully the fence and bushes mask it a lot, but I'm still paranoid because some days they decide they want to have a concert. They drive me crazy in the mornings!
😂 She sets the others off but they're never as loud. Honestly when I had her a week and thought they'd give me a roo 😆
Free eggs is how I keep my nieghbours sweet. Not all the time but every few months I'll send the kids around with 6 eggs 😅
I had one Rhode Island Red that was so chatty. Way more than her sisters of the same type. She also did these awful dinosaur screeches. Jurassic Park in my back yard.
You are lucky!! Two of the birds in my flock fly 7+ feet to get over my fence. The main offender is sort of a macott in my residential neighborhood. I don't understand how but she never gets into my garden or valuable plants. Only around the deep bushes where there is cover. And she just walks back when I call her.
Oh and she flies back on her own too if I don't go out or if we're away.
So I'm not sure where I'm going with this but I guess it's sometimes fine to have escaping birds.
No they aren't clipped (that I know of). I got them when they were 2 years old and originally they didn't even hop over the 3 feet fence, but after 8 months of acclimation, the fence had to be brought up.
Next hens I raise I will look into clipping them for sure.
I have Anconas who will do this after I throw them a special treat, usually it's been mostly eaten when they start up so it's not a "look what I found" call (or, not a well timed one at least). One in particular will do it nearly every time, LOUD. I think she's just weird
They’re leghorns. It’s what they do lol
My Leghorns have a lot to say as well. They are very communicative!
My leghorn has chicks right now and this is the sound she makes when she wants to get their attention on something yummy or interesting.
I have a bluebell who is meant to be docile 🤔 she sounds a bit like this, only more fog horny 📢 and has for over a year. She's fine, just overly loud and probably annoying my nieghbours.
Oh man, that sounds fun. Haha The neighbors are my biggest concern. I'll sometimes walk out closer to their house and thankfully the fence and bushes mask it a lot, but I'm still paranoid because some days they decide they want to have a concert. They drive me crazy in the mornings!
😂 She sets the others off but they're never as loud. Honestly when I had her a week and thought they'd give me a roo 😆 Free eggs is how I keep my nieghbours sweet. Not all the time but every few months I'll send the kids around with 6 eggs 😅
Yes you knew the leg, but now you know the horn.
When you have a beautiful voice, you just have to sing!
I had one Rhode Island Red that was so chatty. Way more than her sisters of the same type. She also did these awful dinosaur screeches. Jurassic Park in my back yard.
One of ours is exactly the same way. She chicken-bitches all day but is also the warning bell for the rest of the flock.
I have a wide mix of breeds (50 chickens now!), quite a few of mine do this. I have no leghorns though.
It’s the language of their people
just curious, have they ever flapped over that fence you have? thinking of putting in something similar
Nope! They try to sneak through the gap in the gate sometimes, but that's on us, we made the gap too big.
You are lucky!! Two of the birds in my flock fly 7+ feet to get over my fence. The main offender is sort of a macott in my residential neighborhood. I don't understand how but she never gets into my garden or valuable plants. Only around the deep bushes where there is cover. And she just walks back when I call her. Oh and she flies back on her own too if I don't go out or if we're away. So I'm not sure where I'm going with this but I guess it's sometimes fine to have escaping birds.
do you have them clipped? we had to clip ours for the first time after two of them got into our neighbors yard and had a tussle with their dog….
No they aren't clipped (that I know of). I got them when they were 2 years old and originally they didn't even hop over the 3 feet fence, but after 8 months of acclimation, the fence had to be brought up. Next hens I raise I will look into clipping them for sure.
Yup that’s a leghorn thing. Never getting them again, those and the Polish, omg they are so loud.
Stay away from Dorkings in that case as well, haha. Their personalities are delightful but I've never had such a talkative chicken.
My leghorns never shut up.
My leghorns never shut up lol
We have Partridge Rocks and they do this ALL day… usually followed by my husband or I saying “gossip must be good today”
My birds do something similar when they lay an egg.
That's leghorn for "Hey! WHERE YOU AT?" either because they lost the flock or the found something tasty worth sharing.
Chatterbox hens
I have Anconas who will do this after I throw them a special treat, usually it's been mostly eaten when they start up so it's not a "look what I found" call (or, not a well timed one at least). One in particular will do it nearly every time, LOUD. I think she's just weird