I have a wyandotte hen who has started this new thing just over the last couple of days - Its only when shes in the coop (and not ever on the nest), and if I go into the coop she lets out this awful, very long, high-pitched screeeeam. She looks like a dinosaur. I'm guessing this is just a little warning for me, but its new behavior so I'm just wondering if I should be worried? P.s. For everyone who helped me identify my disgruntled BR as broody: She's now on day 13 sitting on her first nest of 5 eggs. I've candled three times and all five eggs are fertile with healthy embryos! Thanks guys!
Sounds like a treat demand as well. I have a RIR that runs up to me with a long, totally obnoxious, scream. Sounds nothing like I would expect a chicken to sound. She gets no treats for it either.
Sounds to me like she's in the beginning 'broody' stages. Next stage is she'll bok, bok, bok, to herself for about a week, then she'll start plunking her fluffy butt down, and won't get up. Just my thought! One of my hens screamed before becoming broody.
Hah! That would not surprise me actually. I have a big garden and they've been given treats all summer long but as the season winds down, I dont have as many to give them. And given that shes one of the only hens that has a name (because initially, many of them were going to be for eating, though of course.... that never happened!), she's probably on the spoiled side
