When a hen lays an egg, doesn't she cackle after she has layed it???

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I have a blue EE hen, and I had her in the feed shed feeding her. I went into the coop and when I came back she was over in the corner in a nest she had made. A few minutes after that she got off the nest, so I figured she didn't like that nest. So I go over and look in her nest that she had just been in, and there was an egg.

All my other hens cackle after they lay an egg. What is her problem??

 

[canada-goose]

That's normal. Some hens do, some hens don't. Some do it before laying!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I didn't know that. That's weird that all my other hens do and Julia ( EE hen ) doesn't do it!!!

 

[Kittymomma]

Like Kooshie said, it varies. Some of mine go off before, during, and after--I also have a few that are "stealth layers" that never make a sound.

 

[canada-goose]

Easter Eggers are also known to be nonconformists.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

So it's normal for some hens not to cackle, then?

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Our EEs prefer that no one knows that they laid eggs.
During the summer when they free range, they love to hide their nests, and you can forget about them anouncing those secrets,

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

So the EE preferr not to let their mommy( ME ) know that they have layed an egg.

 

[kyeschicks]

mine don't

not all do when they lay an egg

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

It's just that I've never had a chicken not cackle when she lays an egg!!! It's a first for me! LOL