Change in behavior.

[FatherRoo]

Okay, so its dinner time for me and my hen discko. She was acting fine all day today and then suddenly, she starts screaming like theres a predator in the room. It freaked me out and no matter what I did, she wouldn't stop screaming. So I had to put her in the coop outside with my other girls. I'm afraid, she'd calm down when having away from any pet in general, she even screams at my parakeets, ans when I took her outside, she just scrunched up in a corner. She's only freaked out one other time, and that was because she jumped off the perch and landed kinda hard, making an empty cat food can spring up at her. All she did was bounce about cheeping tell I was about to hold her, rub her head and take the can out. Please, someone help me! I'm afraid of whats wrong with her.

 

[Duckopolis]

Does she have a stressful environment. This can sometimes make chickens go kookoo.

 

[FatherRoo]

No, thats my problem. My two dogs are scared of her, and cause she's mostly black, all four of my cats think she's a cat too. It was just out of the blue. One moment,she was eating, the next she was screaming and bouncing everywhere like something was chasing her. My cats tried to calm her down, but she pecked and clawed at them. She was acting like there was a opossium or a huge dog in her indoor coop.

 

[Duckopolis]

They may have been trying to be nice, but chickens usually won't take it that way. Anything that moves (Is larger than them) they think is a predator out to get them. Is this the first time that she just got scared of them or has she been scared of them before?

 

[FatherRoo]

This is literally the first time. When I brought her home as a little chick, are biggest black cat named star actually carried her about like she was a kitten. She's only in her coop at night after she's had dinner. She is even kinda, bathroom trained. And she knows what time to go to bed. It wasn't untell she took two tiny pecks of noodles did she flip her beak and all.

 

[realsis]

Is she getting ready to lay or has she laid yet? My silkie started screaming just about two weeks before she laid. She acted real nervous and would pace and scream. She stopped right after she started to lay. Now she only sings after she lays. But those couple weeks before she was screaming and acting very strongly nervous. Maybe that's what's going on?

 

[Duckopolis]

Could she be molting? When they molt, they try to hide and cover up, sometimes getting self conscious. At least with my chickens...

 

[FatherRoo]

She hasn't molted, she's still a month younger tell she gets old enough to lay.

But today, I went to get her, and her heads all bloody, you can see skull. I can't get her to a vet at all! I don't know what to do right now.

 

[cafarmgirl]

If you put her in the coop with the other birds and she is not normally housed with them then they have attacked her. Bring her in, wash the wound with saline, then you can put normal Neosporin on it to help prevent infection. Do NOT use the kind with pain reliever in it. After you do that keep her warm and quiet and just let her recover in case she's a little shocky from her injuries. Do not put her back out with the other birds until she has healed completely and then not until she's had an integration period with a fence between them for a couple weeks.

I agree with realsis that her previous screaming behavior might just be a lead up to her laying her first egg.

 

[FatherRoo]

This is a picture of her head: http://s816.photobucket.com/user/as...4-03-26155225_zps6570aab1.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

would that still work?