What the CLUCK!!!!!!!....My hen is acting like a rooster.

[Chickmama74]

One of my original chickens, who is a hens, I know because she laid her first egg right in front of me, is acting like the rooster. I have seen her mount the other hens and go through the motions of what the rooster does. She is an Astralorp and she is not the dominate hen. I also have four barred rocks and a cornish x. I have no clue as to what is going through that brain of hers. The one that she does mount is the cornish x because she sits all day. (Cornish X is not a bird I would ever get again. I was not told that they are meat birds and now I have 2 of them that barely move. I do not have the heart to stick them in a soup pot.)

But as for the rooster...ummm....hen??? Is this a behavior that I should be worried about? She does not do it to all of the hens....Just Miss Oreo.....(my son named her.) Or could this be a monkey see monkey do? Or a hen see rooster do?

I have to laugh about this because my house is filled with unusual animals.....So why not get a hen that is acting like a rooster!!!!!

 

[RoosterAddict99]

Ummm... interesting. Never had this happen to me but, I've heard this sometimes happens. Usually it occurs when there isn't a rooster in the flock.The "hen" starts crowing and stops laying. Is she laying any eggs that you know of?

 

[Chickmama74]

She is still laying. She is one of my best layers. Everyday since she started. I have not heard any crowing from her. She is kinda quite compared to my barred rocks. I have 2 rooster also....one is the "man" of the coop and the other it very sweet.

 

[Chickmama74]

She is still laying. She is one of my best layers. Everyday since she started. I have not heard any crowing from her. She is kinda quite compared to my barred rocks. I have 2 rooster also....one is the "man" of the coop and the other it very sweet.

 

[lrayle]

I have been reading these post on the hens acting like roosters. I have a black A hen who went broody and now she has quit laying and is acting like a rooster to the younger hens. I see where they are a lot of opinions but no answers. My question is Is there anything out there that can make her a hen again so she can lay or she going to stay like this. Again I say this did not start until she went broody She is ten months and I know she is a hen because she was laying daily