Pullet acting super strange!!!

[ldrchickens]

I have a sizzle pullet around 6 months of age. She started laying thanksgiving day. Yesterday she was fine and i just got home and now she is laying in the nest box picture attached. She looks like pictures if hens ive seen broody. No eggs underneath her. When i pic her up she just stays in the same position. When she is touched she puffs up and lifts her tail and lowers her head. She doesnt seem to be breathing hard and every thing else seems normal. Is there something wrong with her or is she maybe trying to be broody? Thanks!

 

[Chickassan]

She's broody! Or at least trying to be.

 

[aart]

Sounds broody to me.

Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, doesn't she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck sound on her way back to the nest?
If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.

 

[Eggcessive]

They will usually pluck out their own chest feathers and will roll an egg under them if sat near, when they are broody. You may want to break her in a dog crate with no bedding unless you want her to hatch eggs, and I would not in the early winter.

 

[Wezdin]

Agree with everyone, that looks like a broody.

 

[Chickassan]

She's young so she might not be fully committed. Give her a few days, you can remove her from the nest from time to time just to see if she changes her mind. If she continues you'll either have to break her or give her some eggs.

 

[Noellereagan]

Being very imprinted, my turkey hens constantly squat for me. What you’re describing sounds like what they do when they squat. I always tell them their weirdos. She’s probably broodybut there’s a chance she could be doing that too. Although I may be wrong but if she’s broody she likely wouldn’t be squatting anymore.

 

[Eggcessive]

Here are some articles to read about broody hens:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/caring-for-broody-hens-facilitating-egg/

https://www.mypetchicken.com/backyard-chickens/chicken-help/What-does-the-word-broody-mean-H84.aspx

 

[sourland]

I agree with those saying that she is broody.

 

[ldrchickens]

Sounds broody to me.

Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, doesn't she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck sound on her way back to the nest?
If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.

She just started this now. Went to check on her and she was eating and walking around and just went to lock them up for the night and shes back at it lol