Lavender Orpington

[Vettech716]

I have this “lady” that I purchased as a sexed female and I’m pretty sure she is but I want expert opinions. Poppy is a LOUD MOUTH and never shuts up. We call her the veloci-chicken. She has yet to lay an egg but is the same age (roughly 5 1/2-6 months) as the for sure female Brahma (she lays eggs) that we got with her. She shows hen behaviors such as dropping and spreading her wings out. But she doesn’t ever shut up. My other females are so quiet (1 of them is a buff Orpington). So experts. Obnoxious female or a rooster?

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Pullet

 

[Vettech716]

Pullet

Is the non-stop screaming normal? She drives me crazy.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I guess I don’t know what you mean by screaming? Is she trying to crow? Some chickens are very vocal.

 

[redinator]

Is the non-stop screaming normal? She drives me crazy.

I have a talker, but I wouldn't call it screaming. Have you checked to see if she's injured or egg bound?

 

[Vettech716]

I guess I don’t know what you mean by screaming? Is she trying to crow? Some chickens are very vocal.

She sounds like a velociraptor. This morning there was a kind of crowing screaming sound happening.

 

[Vettech716]

I have a talker, but I wouldn't call it screaming. Have you checked to see if she's injured or egg bound?

Yes and she’s neither. She’s done it since the day I brought her home.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Pullet. At over 5 months you would be seeing pointy saddle feathers if she were a male. Some pullets are just obnoxiously loud. One of mine can be heard two blocks over when she gets going, so we keep the girls in the coop until 7am out of consideration for the neighbors (although it took one of my neighbors over a year to realize we had chickens)

 

[Vettech716]

I’ll add a video of it when I get home from picking up my daughter from school.

 

[redinator]

She sounds like a velociraptor. This morning there was a kind of crowing screaming sound happening.

The egg song can be pretty loud. Maybe she laid in a hidden nest? I had to hunt down the eggs when my now 6 month olds first started laying just past 4 months old.