HENS WATCHING HENS?

[Stepnout]

Well our Lady Bug started laying Monday, here it is Sunday and she just laid egg #6 wow! The other 5 have not laid yet.
Today she was squawking up a storm went in the coop scraped the nest back out of the coop squawking again telling her sisters off pecking at them if they got too close, back in the coop raising hell. She finally settles in to lay and 4 of her sister go in the coop onand off to watch her in the nest box. Most stayed for 10-15 min some left and came back to check her out.
Is it safe to assume the others are getting close to POL and are curious or excited?
I took the egg out....don’t want egg eaters and I put 2 golf balls back in to help the others.

 

[kklowell]

Could be either, but I'm constantly amazed by how curious chickens are. Maybe it's just that.

 

[Stepnout]

Could be either, but I'm constantly amazed by how curious chickens are. Maybe it's just that.

They are amazing and amusing!
I see you are from Maine. I used to go to Fryburg quite a bit for bird dog trials. Pointing dogs, I used to run pointers and I had one Settter as well. Nice area there.

 

[kklowell]

I love this area! I'm just 15 miles east of Fryeburg.
I became most aware of their curiosity when I put the insulators on the outside of the run for the electric fence. The hammering in of the nails scared them for maybe three of the nails...then it was watching me, which progressed to being right on the other side of the wire where I was working and watching intently...almost like they were checking to make sure I was doing it correctly. It seems like nothing scares them so long that curiosity doesn't take over.

 

[LittleMissCountry]

My only nonlaying pullet goes and watches the others every time they lay. Lol. She is pretty annoying about it, too. She gets right in their face and sometimes climbs in the nesting box with them, standing over them until they trill at her or peck at her. She has been doing it since the first one started laying, over 6 weeks ago.

 

[aart]

I've had cock/erels, pullets, and hens stand by when pullet is first laying...and when other birds are laying sometimes too, either cheering or bitching that they want that nest.

The cheering section can create quite the raucous cacophony!
I had a group of pullets one year that were so loud for so long and so often I closed the windows of the house so I could work.

Will never forget the first time I heard it with my first flock, who were mostly adults, just a few days into residence here.
I went racing down to the coop thinking something was killing all my new chickens,
only to find the cock and several hens all standing on the roost singing the egg song at full volume along with the layer on the nest perch.

 

[Stepnout]

Thanks for the comments everyone.