Hen song

[newbiechickenfan]

My pullets will are 20 weeks old and haven't started laying yet. But today, one was singing away. Can this mean that they are getting ready to lay or is she just pretending to be a rooster?

 

[JodyJo]

you can tell the difference...mine are now laying 3 weeks...boy do they make a commotion! It's a 'bawk, bawk, bawk, bagawk" sound...funny!
But I heard one of my roos imitating it the other day!

 

[chefchick]

Yeah.. I have a couple of real loudmouths! Eggs are next! congrats!

 

[SteveBaz]

funny!!

 

[gryeyes]

The first stanza of The Egg Song goes like this:

Bok bok bok bok bokbokbokbokbok. Bok bok bok bok BOK BOK BOk Buh-GAWK!!!!

Some keep it up for several minutes..... Some don't sing it at all. Sometimes the whole flock will join in congratulatory chorus. Often a rooster will sing it with her.

 

[jtbrown]

That explains the chorus coming from my older birds, the whole flock ignites into a round.

I was moving feed around in storage area and heard it, came around to see the ruckus and everyone was dancing around "bok bok buhgawking". I really find it funny. One lonely hot brown egg in the nest box, who knows which of the 5 red productions put it there, there are 19 total in that pen and they were all going crazy.