Broody hen or just pissy that we are disturbing her when she’s on the nest laying?

[Skyleen13]

Most my hens will screech when another hen comes near nest,
pretty typical no matter the breed.

Here's my go-to signs of a broody:
Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?

If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.

When I picked her up off her nest she wouldn’t even straighten out her legs. Just flattened back down to the ground. Growling & fluffed up to twice her size. I left her alone for 30 minutes to let her calm down. When I checked on her again she’d left the nesting boxes & was munching away on blackberries. I think she just hates being interrupted while nesting.

 

[aart]

When I picked her up off her nest she wouldn’t even straighten out her legs. Just flattened back down to the ground. Growling & fluffed up to twice her size. I left her alone for 30 minutes to let her calm down. When I checked on her again she’d left the nesting boxes & was munching away on blackberries. I think she just hates being interrupted while nesting.

Sounds like she may be broody, but she didn't go back to nest.
Some birds are loungers, resting in est before and/or after laying.
I'd just leave her be and see where she sleeps.

 

[Skyleen13]

Sounds like she may be broody, but she didn't go back to nest.
Some birds are loungers, resting in est before and/or after laying.
I'd just leave her be and see where she sleeps.

Thank you. I’ve watched her closely & she goes into lay her egg & is a total pissy pants to anyone or anything who bugs her until after she’s done. Then she leaves all proud of herself.

 

[RevlisRemmah]

When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?

Thanks for the laugh! This is hilarious!