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My pullet thinks she is a peacock

post #1 of 24
6/14/12 at 3:04pm
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My 24 week old pullet has been walking around all day today all puffed up. She is holding her wings out, her tail up and all her feathers seem to be standing on end. She is not happy IN the run or outside of the run. She kept coming to the gate wanting out, so I let them out to free range and then she kept trying to get back IN the run, which is strange for her. What is up with this???

 

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Jakk... Homeschooling mom of four kids, two dogs, three cats, 6 Buff Orpingtons hatched on Christmas Day, 16 Hatchery Choice Pullets, 6 TSC Red Pullets all hatched on 2/22, 8 babes hatched 3/21, 9 babies hatched on May 11th. Sixteen Easter Eggers hatched Sept 1, two White Ameraucana hatched Sept 5th...and trying to resist the urge to fill the incubator!

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post #2 of 24
6/14/12 at 3:45pm

bless her heart. What is the temperature there? 

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post #3 of 24
6/14/12 at 3:53pm
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It was about 83 today. I don't think she was overheated.
 

Jakk... Homeschooling mom of four kids, two dogs, three cats, 6 Buff Orpingtons hatched on Christmas Day, 16 Hatchery Choice Pullets, 6 TSC Red Pullets all hatched on 2/22, 8 babes hatched 3/21, 9 babies hatched on May 11th. Sixteen Easter Eggers hatched Sept 1, two White Ameraucana hatched Sept 5th...and trying to resist the urge to fill the incubator!

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Jakk... Homeschooling mom of four kids, two dogs, three cats, 6 Buff Orpingtons hatched on Christmas Day, 16 Hatchery Choice Pullets, 6 TSC Red Pullets all hatched on 2/22, 8 babes hatched 3/21, 9 babies hatched on May 11th. Sixteen Easter Eggers hatched Sept 1, two White Ameraucana hatched Sept 5th...and trying to resist the urge to fill the incubator!

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post #4 of 24
6/14/12 at 4:20pm

Sounds broody to me. Looks broody. She's hormonal. Buff Orps go broody, you know. Is she clucking deep in her throat?
 

 

Here is a link to a short video of my Nugget from the last time she was broody. She's about to hatch babies again, too.

http://s673.photobucket.com/albums/vv95/Mtnviewpoultry/Video%20Clips/?action=view&current=DSCN3492.mp4


Edited by speckledhen - 6/14/12 at 4:23pm

 

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post #5 of 24
6/14/12 at 4:29pm

What a beautiful hen...angry, but beautiful! No idea what she's doing though, haha.

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post #6 of 24
6/14/12 at 5:32pm
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Sounds broody to me. Looks broody. She's hormonal. Buff Orps go broody, you know. Is she clucking deep in her throat?
 

 

Here is a link to a short video of my Nugget from the last time she was broody. She's about to hatch babies again, too.

http://s673.photobucket.com/albums/vv95/Mtnviewpoultry/Video%20Clips/?action=view&current=DSCN3492.mp4

 

She is clucking like that but she keeps her head low to the ground. I will try to get a video of her tomorrow if she is still doing it. Her tail feathers are straight up, her wings are out and she is all puffed up like she gets after picking her up and putting her down. I sure hope she isn't broody. I have 18 one month olds in the baby pen, no room for her to hatch out any babies right now.

Jakk... Homeschooling mom of four kids, two dogs, three cats, 6 Buff Orpingtons hatched on Christmas Day, 16 Hatchery Choice Pullets, 6 TSC Red Pullets all hatched on 2/22, 8 babes hatched 3/21, 9 babies hatched on May 11th. Sixteen Easter Eggers hatched Sept 1, two White Ameraucana hatched Sept 5th...and trying to resist the urge to fill the incubator!

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Jakk... Homeschooling mom of four kids, two dogs, three cats, 6 Buff Orpingtons hatched on Christmas Day, 16 Hatchery Choice Pullets, 6 TSC Red Pullets all hatched on 2/22, 8 babes hatched 3/21, 9 babies hatched on May 11th. Sixteen Easter Eggers hatched Sept 1, two White Ameraucana hatched Sept 5th...and trying to resist the urge to fill the incubator!

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post #7 of 24
6/14/12 at 5:39pm

Broody!

"Why yes, I was raised in a barn."

 

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"Why yes, I was raised in a barn."

 

1 Silver Laced Wyandotte, 2 Naked Necks, 1 Cochin, 1 Easter Egger, 7 barnyard bantams, 3 Rouens, Pheobe the Aussie, Wally - Nermal - Bea - and Sassy the cats....and now a whole 'herd' of new chickens: chantaclers, orloffs, wyandottes, rocks, sussex, new hamps, and brahmas, along with Pippen and Squeak the button quails.

 

 

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post #8 of 24
6/14/12 at 5:41pm

Looks like a classic broody there. Just make her and keep her uncomfortable and she should snap out of it if you do not want her hatching eggs. 

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post #9 of 24
6/14/12 at 8:35pm

Oh, yeah, then she's broody. I call her position the "Weebles Airplane" position. Wings drop down, head down, all flared out like a beachball, like she's going to take off down the runway.

 

My first ever Buff Orp went broody about one month after she began laying eggs, but I had no rooster then. Couldn't break her no matter what we did and she almost died-stayed broody for the entire three weeks, had to take emergency measures to save her. She did brood chicks the following year, when we did have a rooster. Never went broody again and she is now 6 1/2 years old, the last remaining hen of my original flock.
 

 

~A dog on its owner's property is a pet; A dog on someone else's property is a predator~

 

 

Living the Good Life in the North Georgia Mountains~ Cynthia

 

 

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~A dog on its owner's property is a pet; A dog on someone else's property is a predator~

 

 

Living the Good Life in the North Georgia Mountains~ Cynthia

 

 

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post #10 of 24
6/15/12 at 10:50am
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Uggh! I haven't had a rooster for a month now (although I am still getting fertilized eggs!) and I hope I can break her out of this. Should I keep her out of the nestbox? I just checked and she is sitting on her egg, a plastic easter egg and a golf ball. She growled at me, I'm not sticking my hand under that hissing mess of feathers! 

Jakk... Homeschooling mom of four kids, two dogs, three cats, 6 Buff Orpingtons hatched on Christmas Day, 16 Hatchery Choice Pullets, 6 TSC Red Pullets all hatched on 2/22, 8 babes hatched 3/21, 9 babies hatched on May 11th. Sixteen Easter Eggers hatched Sept 1, two White Ameraucana hatched Sept 5th...and trying to resist the urge to fill the incubator!

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Jakk... Homeschooling mom of four kids, two dogs, three cats, 6 Buff Orpingtons hatched on Christmas Day, 16 Hatchery Choice Pullets, 6 TSC Red Pullets all hatched on 2/22, 8 babes hatched 3/21, 9 babies hatched on May 11th. Sixteen Easter Eggers hatched Sept 1, two White Ameraucana hatched Sept 5th...and trying to resist the urge to fill the incubator!

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