Chicken making new balking sounds!

[azygous]

Took her long enough!

 

[AZ Chicken Mama]

Took her long enough!

Seriously!! Hopefully she will now chill out. She didn't even sing the egg song ! I just went out and their it was. One tiny egg....!

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Congratulations on Daisy's egg.

Yes, as others have said, a new hen will often become a drama queen with the first eggs.
Some of them become very dramatic. In my experience, RIR's can be noisy.

Sheesh...I have one olive egger now that I am about to paint with a spray can to tell her apart from her black sisters so I can pull her from the roost at night and put her in the soup pot if she doesn't settle down.

Hopefully your girl will settle in a bit. It takes a couple of weeks for them to really settle into laying, so you may have more noise yet.

Just check to make sure she isn't being hazed from the nests by other hens which can make for an awful protest....but usually they are just being dramatic.

LofMc

 

[TexasSam]

She finally did it!! Daisy layed her first egg! They are all laying now! It's sure a small one, but the first ones usually are ! Happy Chicken Mamma!!

Awesome

 

[Hensndoes]

She's an extremely noisy RIR ! She use to be so quiet and timid and wouldn't come near anyone. Lately every time anyone goes outside she runs right up and baulks in your face til you go inside. I told her today "would you go lay an egg so you will shut up"! She use to be the quietest chicken we had that was scared of everything and now she's in everyone's business making sure we all know she's there !

I had a pullet do just like you say. She carried on for hours going back and forth between me and the nesting box. Normally she was a very shy girl who preferred her distance and yet here she was hopping up on the bench beside me over and over. I decided she needed shagged, gave her a very welcomed ruffle on the back, and she quite her fuss and went back to the nest immediately. laid her first egg before she strutted out.

 

[chicklets81]

One of my Ameraucanas did this. She was squaking really loudly, so I went to see what was the matter. She would strut around the coop, jumping onto the roost, going "bawk bawk" and then jump back down. Saw her in a few nesting boxes, but no egg. A week later, I found my first olive egg!

 

[Suzi18]

My Olive Egger acted like a nut when she first started laying. She would run around the yard bawking, under bushes, bawklng, in my flower pots, bawking under my giant hostas before she would finally go into a nest box and lay her egg. Thank goodness she has settled down a bit. She still carries on but doesn't act so crazy about it

 

[TexasSam]

My Olive Egger acted like a nut when she first started laying. She would run around the yard bawking, under bushes, bawklng, in my flower pots, bawking under my giant hostas before she would finally go into a nest box and lay her egg. Thank goodness she has settled down a bit. She still carries on but doesn't act so crazy about it

She telling everyone she needs some privacy