Pullet Grumpy While Laying

[Buff Hooligans]

This is one of my girls who shows broody crankiness when she's laying. She puffs up and rachets out warning language when I put my hand near. She won't budge off the nest for a while after she's laid the egg.

She's not officially broody, because she does leave the nestbox within an hour or two.

But do some hens get temporary broodiness just from laying? My other girls don't mind at all if I clean the coop, etc. while they're in the nestbox.

 

[tiffanyh]

Id get pretty cranky pushing an egg out. Ask my husband how cranky I was when I was, well you know, with the kids! I laid there for 2 hours or so after too!

Seriously though, shes a buff, so maybe she is just displaying some broody tendancies without actually being broody.

 

[Catalina]

Wow! That is a gorgeous picture - she's pretty even when she's crabby
Love her color!

 

[silkiechicken]

Most of my hens, even the leghorns, like to mull over their creation and sit on it for an hour or two after the deposit.

 

[mom23chicklets]

My buff orp does the same thing. None of the other hens do, just her. She sits and fusses, and doesn't want me to disturb her.

 

[brooster]

my buff orp does the same thing as well. but only one the other buff doesnt mind, but she already went broody.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

My Australorp is like that. i swear she sits in the nest box all morning. She has also gone broody three times and quit at 15 days each time.

 

[IHeartChickens]

Wow! Her face just says it all. "Stay Away!!"

I think I've given that look to DH before when I've been um ...shall we say hormonal?

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Thanks for your responses. I guess it's not fair to keep calling her Miss Grumpy Pants anymore...

 

[speckledhen]

I have one Buff Orp who practically lives in the nest in the morning. She's sweet and will actually raise up for me to feel under her, if she isn't broody, but she'll stay for two hours and even move to a nest with someone else's warm egg in it. We call her favorite nest "Sunny's Apt". My other Buff Orp, who has never been broody in her life, will scream and "ratchet" and whatever if you even look at her while she's on the nest.