A BWACK after dark???

[Suzi18]

Last night about 10:30 I was laying in bed and thought I heard a chicken bwaack. Just one single bwaack every 45 seconds or so. Not an alarming clucking but it continued on for 5 minutes or so. I decided to go check. It was my Orpington and nothing in the coop seemed out of place. Her coop mates were fine and didn't seemed alarmed by her noise in the middle of the night. I watched her for a while and she jumped off the roost and went over and stared at the wall, still making this noise every minute or so. She didn't seem upset or freaked out so I eventually went back to bed and she continued for about half an hour. I expected to maybe wake up to an egg ( she just started laying a week ago) or a sick chicken but she was 100% perfectly fine this morning. Any ideas??

 

[theuglychick]

Orpingtons, lol! Mine is little nutty too.

 

[Lamaremybabies]

Maybe she heard something outside and it freaked her out. Or if she just recently started laying was freaked out by the hormones and fact that this big thing keeps coming out of her rere end almost everyday..

 

[WVduckchick]

A mouse in the coop? Maybe a spider climbed on her?

 

[theuglychick]

Do you keep a light in there?

 

[Lamaremybabies]

A mouse in the coop? Maybe a spider climbed on her?

I'd be screaming too...

 

[Suzi18]

Maybe she heard something outside and it freaked her out. Or if she just recently started laying was freaked out by the hormones and fact that this big thing keeps coming out of her rere end almost everyday..

Good point!!

 

[Suzi18]

Do you keep a light in there?

No.

 

[Suzi18]

A mouse in the coop? Maybe a spider climbed on her?

That was my first thought that maybe a mouse or something. But i took a flashlight and checked. She didn't seem alarmed just a little single bwaack every minute or so and none of the other girls seemed bothered