Female taking male Duties

[JacinLarkwell]

I assume you mean 5-8 years old?
So, she's an 'old bird'.
Have had hens stop laying for molt and winter and crow and preform some 'rooster' duties.
She stopped that nonsense and went back to laying after a few months.

Yeah, sorry forgot to clarify years. She is a rather old bird. I'm just puzzled by the tidbitting, nonsense patrol with other hens and that she stopped laying in March after laying most of that month. She has yet to start molting, but most of my birds in this coop have just started to stop laying to molt

 

[aart]

Yeah, sorry forgot to clarify years. She is a rather old bird. I'm just puzzled by the tidbitting, nonsense patrol with other hens and that she stopped laying in March after laying most of that month. She has yet to start molting, but most of my birds in this coop have just started to stop laying to molt

Eh, just another interesting behavior to observe.
Have you had her for the 8 years or.....IIRC(which is rare) you just started with chickens recently?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've had them their whole life. If she'd the aunt,she was ordered, if she is the sibling, we hatched her out ourselves. I do my best not to buy birds this old