Hen will not stop trumpeting all day

[Jane Jane]

My hen will not stop calling out loudly all day long. NOT THE EGG SONG! This hen raised a brood this spring and came back into laying, normally. Now, a few months later, she won't stop with this loud squawking. She strolls around the whole range (1/2 acre) trumpeting like this: long, long, long, long, long, long, short-louder x 2, then repeat. Between each long vibrato-filled loud trumpet is a pause. It is not the egg alarm/predator alarm that goes like this: short, short, short, short, short, short, short, medium long louder with a peak, repeat. Also, her comb is now pale pink, and her legs lost their yellow. She is eating and drinking normally (between trumpet blasts). What is wrong? Is she just looking for a new nesting area? The roo does seem to follow her around and sit down in nesty looking spots. He does this often, shows hens good spots to lay their eggs. Sort of shocking to check the regular nest boxes and find my roo sitting in one! LOL But, I have not seen this hen in a box for a while. The other hens ignore her trumpeting, too. Thanks for insight!

 

[aart]

Some chickens, like some people, just never shut the heck up.
I've had a few grousers, it can last for a few hours a day to all day long for a few weeks.

 

[Phaedra Geiermann]

I guess some chickens love to express how they feel via sounds they can make
One of our hens has a funny behavior, every time she eats something besides the commercial feed, she will screammmmmmm~~~

Another hen (original alpha hen in the flock) shows how upset she was after being put into the broody jail, a 10-minute non-stop loud complain.

 

[Jane Jane]

Can you please get a video of her when she’s making that sound? Hearing it and seeing her stance would help a lot

I will try, but I don't have a cell phone and taking my laptop out in the field, well, ... But, I will try and borrow someone's phone. This sound is worthy of that much effort, LOL.

 

[Jane Jane]

This is what she sounds like all day long.

 

[Silviaschicks]

Can you please get a video of her when she’s making that sound? Hearing it and seeing her stance would help a lot

 

[aart]

I will try, but don't have a cell phone. I can borrow someone's; it's worth the effort to just hear that trumpet blast, LOL.

Would love to hear it!
You'll have to upload vid to youtube, or similar platform, then paste a link here.

 

[aart]

Not quite like anything I've heard before, either here in my coop or on BYC.

 

[rayrose]

I have to take a stick after mine. Then they learn to shut up. Living
in a close neighborhood, I can't allow one or two hens to make a racket for no reason, that jeopardizes complaints and risk me losing my entire flock.

 

[Silviaschicks]

My hen makes that noise when she's separated from her friends, or when she's hungry/thirsty, or wants to be let outside to free range. The only difference is she doesn't pause between the trumpets