I can't believe you DID that and I'm going to SCREAM about it!

HA!

I have a few pullets FINALLY coming into lay. One, a BO, just laid her first egg three days ago. I knew it was her because I didn't realize anyone was laying when I opened the nest box lid, and boy... did she let me have it. It was the ANGRIEST, most SHOCKED "I can't believe you LOOKED in here" ba-gawking one could imagine.

Today, I went out to check the box several hours ago and noticed her missing. I knew better than to open that darn lid for fear of getting chicken cussed again.
BUT, hours later, assuming she HAD to be done, I did it again. Opened the lid to find her and another pullet in the box. Got a silent stink eye (all that I've ever gotten before out of ANYONE else) from the one pullet, but that same BO just chicken cussed me out again... for a GOOD long time!

Baw-gaaaaaaaaaaaaaawk ba-gawk ba-gawk BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW-GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK, on and on...and on again.

Can't help but giggle...

She's a vocal, opinionated thing...and boy, can she give a good cussin'! I think she's called me brand new creative names I've never been called before!

 

Quote:I'm in SE Kansas... it's not arctic, but not exactly warm right now, either. We've had a weird few weeks where it's been pretty darn cold, swinging back to mild and almost warm, to cold, windy and below freezing temps now. To ME it's arctic ENOUGH already!

I'd given up hope for any of the pullets to start laying before spring, but had one black sex-link start about 3 weeks ago, and then this BO just days ago. I have another BO that looks exactly like the new layer, but nothing yet... and I have a GLW and a BR that are very, very ready by appearance and combs/wattles and coloring...but nothing with them either. Another BR doesn't seem nearly as developed in the comb/wattles, and a few others are iffy but still holding out, too. I'd noticed this one BO muttering and chattering a bit in the last week or so...and she was previously nearly silent, so I guess that was a 'sign' for her. I also saw the rooster 'catch her', not 100% willingly, but successfully, in the last week so I hoped that meant soon! I'd seen the same thing with about the same timing with the black sex link.

My mature hens (LF Lt. Brahmas) have all but stopped laying save for the random egg here or there... so I really didn't expect that any of the pullets would actually start! It's about time! They're at LEAST 7 months old (not 100% sure on hatch date...but at LEAST 7 months, if not actually closing in on 9 months...).
I don't light my coop, and with the time change, it gets light close to an hour before I'm out there to open the coop...so they haven't exactly been helped by that, either.


Her cussing out was exactly like the egg song... but she hadn't laid yet, and only very angrily started it when I had the nerve to open that darn lid! The first time I interrupted her, she actually jumped out of the nest and stormed all over the coop and run telling everyone about my bad deed... once she finally returned to lay the darn egg, the actual egg song wasn't quite as loud or irritated sounding. This time, she didn't bother leaving the nest, no egg laid yet, just loudly objecting and screaming how DARE you!

It'll be fun to see if the other BO can talk smack like that when she starts laying! lol