will hens "sing" before they begin laying for the first time?

[jreynolds24]

My ladies are 21 weeks and often I hear the "ive laid a egg song" but I have found no eggs they are free range and I have set up several nesting boxes around the property, some buckets some cover milk crates and boxes all with fake eggs... will they sing and not be laying? Or do I need to search more?

 

[CrazyChickGirl]

Mine started that a few weeks before they started laying. They also started crouching when we reached for them or tried to pet them a few weeks before. Hopefully soon!

 

[jreynolds24]

YES! They started that too! Yippee! Thank you!

 

[subhanalah]

Mine did the fake egg song twice today...claiming that she had laid the fake egg in the box. The turkey.
It's really going to be more weeks til she lays?! I thought it'd be a couple weeks after squatting!

 

[jreynolds24]

our first egg!

 

[subhanalah]

The picture didn't work. Was it in a nest box?

 

[john n nina]

my barred rocks started singing different when they started laying this feb they gave me my first egg on feb 14 my first wed anniversary gift from them lol

 

[CrazyChickGirl]

Yay!!

 

[CrazyChickGirl]

Mine went hysterical the first day she layed. She was singing and screeching and just being crazy obnoxious. Lol.

 

[jreynolds24]

Under the deck I set up a bucket and they had pulled it all apart ... so i was going to fix it up. And there itswas!