Laying song

[raro]

My hens always do the "I laid an egg" squawking song, but the other day I went out and there was nothing in the nest. I looked and didn't find anything. Either she is reeeeeally good at hiding them...or do they sometimes sing the song without laying?!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Yes, chickens like to mess with our heads. Works, doesn't it?

 

[chick4chix]

Yes- they drive me crazy with it! Sometimes it sounds like a "chorus" they are all going off and I think I'm going to have a nest FULL of eggs, only to find nothing- nada- even when I've seen them in the nest "setting" for a loooooong time.

 

[jettgirl24]

Mine sing the song when one wanders away from the group and they can't see each other (the girls are VERY attached). MY BO also sang her song yesterday after a cat chased her out of the yard. She disappeared for an hour (while I looked frantically for her) and all of the sudden I hear the egg song. I ran back to the coop and there she was at the gate begging to be let back in with her sisters

My favorite though: When one of the other girls lays and sings her song my BO joins in excitedly to help celebrate. SO cute