She's worse than a rooster!

[Rock17]

It would even be more tolerable if she were cuddly or sweet. But she's not. She's quite flighty if you want to hold her. But she has no problem standing at your feet looking straight at you and doing this over you trying to talk until you go get her some scratch. I love her but I'm starting to have a hard time liking her.

I believe she is a zombie chicken. They are never too friendly.

 

[Somshine]

I believe she is a zombie chicken. They are never too friendly.

She is a zombie. I have two. Ones great, she's awful! Part of it I believe is because she's taken to laying on the porch couch. But they have plenty of nest space in the run and the other rouge layers have accepted going back to them! My husband just let her out now so she could go lay her damn egg on the porch because he couldn't take it anymore. I'm sure that's not going to help.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

That's hilarious, I forgot to ask, does your sister know!?

Nope she lives on the other side of the country!

 

[Somshine]

Nope she lives on the other side of the country!

Oh that's great! Me and my sister's doing around a lot and we can be rough on each other but I do believe that one would get someone's panties in a wad

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

I've not recorded our girl, but our buff Orpington, Mama, is SO LOUD and she goes into our coop where it echos and sings her heart out. She kinda sounds like she's dying lol but she's not! Lolol she's just voisterous lol

 

[Somshine]

I also realized the pictures I posted are not even her. They're pictures of the sweet one. I just couldn't tell on those tiny tiles when you're selecting out of your gallery here's her little mean ass finally quiet with her damn egg. We put one of the new nesting boxes on the couch where she was preferring to lay hoping it would help her get used to it. And it did! She took right to it. As long as it's still on the damn couch. She has no interest in them in the new coop and will just lay on the couch if one isn't there.

 

[alinas2010]

Well I was only letting them out so early because they were stuck in a smaller run until I got the big one done because I like them to have a lot more than the average requirements. And during that time they've taken to getting all over the porch (defeated two different gates I put up), tearing my plants up, raiding the garden until my husband reinforced it, wandering further and further off on our 8 acres and we ended up with an egg stash in the doghouse, one under the porch and one we missed which resulted in nine chicks behind the shed. I have 37 chickens now. Luckily the neighbors going to take the surprise batch. But yeah things were getting quite out of control having them out all day. But I have them to sell eggs to my clients. So we prefer to keep them in there until late afternoon early evening and then let them out to free range until they go to bed. Hence the reason I got such a massive run. It will easily hold twice as many as I'm putting in there. Treats help. Some, but only until they're gone. We are still working on the large run as far as enrichment toys and entertainment. And I sure hope that helps! She gets her way with us doing this and the other hens. I fear she has just learned that she can throw her weight around by driving everyone insane. I'm telling you she'll get more carried away, but they never do it for the recording

She’s just acting spoiled at this point I mean at least she’s pretty, and entertaining to some degree! Hopefully with a new routine and more entertainment in the run over time she’ll be more agreeable at some point.

 

[Somshine]

She’s just acting spoiled at this point I mean at least she’s pretty, and entertaining to some degree! Hopefully with a new routine and more entertainment in the run over time she’ll be more agreeable at some point.

I hope so too! I don't know if the entertainment's going to help though. Because talking all of this through has made me realize I think she is most adamant about laying her damn egg on the couch on the porch. With or without the nest we attempted to use to acclimate her. Maybe what really needs to happen is my husband needs to stop caving and giving her what she wants to quiet her dying pterodactyl act and hope that eventually she can adapt to a new norm. Don't get me wrong when he's not around I try. But so far she will hold that egg in and b**** like a banshee till she gets her prime spot. Because half the time it works. Maybe I just need to keep them all locked up for a week until she is forced to conform. Do you think she'd be insistent enough to become egg-bound? Is that strictly an uncontrollable occurrence or could they literally hold one in and make it happen?

 

[Altairsky]

One of my hens can see me when I use the bathroom at 5 am and starts making those rubber chicken screams so loud that the sound comes out distorted. Because she wants to come out. She's worse than a rooster.

 

[Somshine]

One of my hens can see me when I use the bathroom at 5 am and starts making those rubber chicken screams so loud that the sound comes out distorted. Because she wants to come out. She's worse than a rooster.

What exactly are you wanting to do at 5:00 a.m. little honeyfeather!?