strange behaviour in pullet/hen

[beautifulchick]

Hi everyone I've been noticing a strange behaviour sometimes I want to know if some of you have it in your flock and if it is a health concern or something normal.
- Sometimes my 7 old month pullets are walking, preening or just standing and they make a sound and begin to run and fly to one direction (its duration it's around 3 seconds), I notice this behaviour when they started laying, they do it once a week maybe, before it was two or three times a week, but when two of them where broody incubating the eggs, they did it every time they leave the nest.
- The mama hen of this pullets did it sometimes when incubating eggs, not randomly like the pullets and her sound is more quiet, the others sound like something is chasing them,
What could it be? Any ideas?

 

[DobieLover]

Unless you get a recording of the sound and behavior it's nearly impossible to know what they are doing. Whatever it is, I don't believe it to be a health concern.
If you can get a recording you should be able to post it here. If not directly, upload it to YouTube or another online video platform and post a link here.

 

[beautifulchick]

Unless you get a recording of the sound and behavior it's nearly impossible to know what they are doing. Whatever it is, I don't believe it to be a health concern.
If you can get a recording you should be able to post it here. If not directly, upload it to YouTube or another online video platform and post a link here.

I'll try that however is very randomly unless they go full broody leaving the nest once a day, and I dont have plans to have more chicks right now and I don't have cameras for recording all the time, but I know is hard to tell only by description, I'll try to recording and sharing it or maybe look up for videos that show similarities if I don't have luck recording it.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Going strictly by description it sounds like they're either startled by something (whether it's an actual threat or not) so are darting for cover, though I don't know how that would correlate with being broody and coming off the nest.

 

[aart]

I've seen many chickens do this, young, old, broody on her daily constitutional. Not sure why, always attributed it to just a jump for joy, stretching their wings, legs, and vocal chords.
I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[beautifulchick]

I've seen many chickens do this, young, old, broody on her daily constitutional. Not sure why, always attributed it to just a jump for joy, stretching their wings, legs, and vocal chords.
I wouldn't worry about it.

Thank you, I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

Going strictly by description it sounds like they're either startled by something (whether it's an actual threat or not) so are darting for cover, though I don't know how that would correlate with being broody and coming off the nest.

The first time I notice it I thinked they were startled too, however when they did it being broody when leaving the nest it kept me thinking