How can I shut her up??

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One of my girls has recently started to make a racket every morning. I can't seem to work out what's wrong. There's always plenty of food and water but she spends well over an hour just crowing. We've recently started to let the girls out into the garden when we're home so I wonder if she could be making a fuss to be let out...? Ordinarily, the girls stay in a protected pen when we're at work.

Any ideas on how I can keep her quiet without spoiling her with treats would be great, otherwise I will need to look at re-homing her. It just isn't fair on the neighbours.

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Hi Helen ----- if 'SHE' is crowing you wont be able to shut 'HIM' up!!!!!!!!!!!! How old is this chicken , has it laid eggs yet ? Ros
 
yeah first things first is she a he??! if its a girl she may be shouting out the fact that she has just laid an egg. most hens will shout about for a little while after they come out of the nest box just to let everyone else know they have produced! its just a chicken thing but an hour sounds a bit excessive, if its just in the mornings i would say its that. not much you can do to keep animals of any type quiet its just natural for them to make noises. i have 2 donkeys and the boy is also very noisy when he wants to be!
 
We have 5 polands in an ark in the garden at the moment- four hens and a cockerel and every single morning as well as the cockerel crowing :roll: the hens make an awful noise wanting to be let out into the garden to have a wander :D
They get noisier if we are late letting them out for any reason- it could be that your girl is getting cross and wanting to be let loose - Impatient creatures aren't they! :lol:
 
One of my Pekins is a naturally noisy girl and very vocal. Mine also make a fuss to be let out but that is usually when they hear the back door open. As long as all this is happening at a reasonable time in the morning I'm sure the neighbours will not mind.
 
As others have posted, spring is laying time! and hens about to lay will 'sing' or more accurately in some cases ' scream'!!. there is nothing you can do to stop them I'm afraid! neither can you prevent the post laying ' Puck-egging' that most hens do.
Crowing hens are not uncommon. Dominant females, particularly in the absence of a cockerel will often crow. It's usually a short, slightly hoarse affair, and nothing like as loud or as long as the melodious crow of an adult male.
 
Thanks everyone for your replies.

She's definitely female and thankfully this morning she didn't start until around 7am and gave up just before 7:45am. I feel more guilty when she starts earlier than that and then keeps going!!

I have noticed that her eggs are quite wrinkly, and she doesn't lay every day like the other two, so I am wondering now if perhaps as she's getting older (approx 2 years - she's an ex-batt) it might be more painful for her laying. Could that be a possibility?

A very kind friend has offered to have her if the neighbours start to complain, so I guess I'll see how it goes. Fingers crossed it's just a blip and she'll quieten down again soon.
 
I have a marsh daisy bantam and she drives me mad waking me at 6.30am every day becasue she wants to be let out of her coup. But she has to wait until 9.15am before they come out. LOL
 
often a hen crowing is due to a hormonal inblance in the body, sometimes caused by an external injury which heals and puts pressure on a gland, or in old hens , like mine, they develope internal lumps again applying pressure to a hormonal gland

they seldom lay well and produce miss\shaped eggs,my hen is old but does go broody and makes a great mum, so i hang on to her

rupert
 
This might help. It's by Tim and speaks for itself :-)17

This FAQ provides some information about hens that start to crow

A crowing hen is quite a well known phenomenon that leaves a few poultry keepers scratching their heads. Sometimes out of a group of hens, one may start to crow. This is usually due to a hormonal change within the bird which can occur for a number of possible reasons:

* She is trying to change her position within the pecking order of the flock, there is no cockerel in the flock to take charge so she assumes his position trying to crow from time to time. As she matures a little more she will usually settle down and stop crowing but you should keep a close eye on her in case it is a more serious problem than this.
* She has an infected ovary. The crowing will often get worse as the infection gets worse and she will usually need a trip to the vets in order that she can be examined and placed on a course of antibiotics to clear this infection.
* She has a tumour in or near her ovaries. Whilst this is fairly uncommon in hens, this has been found to cause the same symptoms as having an infected ovary. Unfortunately there is not a lot you can do if she has a tumour.
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