Windy hill chickens - first flock(s) of my own

[Perris]

sounds familiar

Have you read Shad's article on 'it's not an egg song, it's an escort call'? Well worth your time.

here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...-not-about-the-egg-it’s-an-escort-call.74386/

 

[kattabelly]

sounds familiar

Have you read Shad's article on 'it's not an egg song, it's an escort call'? Well worth your time.

here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-egg-song-it’s-not-about-the-egg-it’s-an-escort-call.74386/

Yeah I have, thanks.

She does the "egg song" after laying but often won't if he's right outside. Before it's like the quiet clucking you sometimes hear if you open a nest box while one's in the middle of laying an egg, only a louder and more agitated version when she wants to go to the nest and lay.

 

[thistlewick]

I have hens that sing before they lay in right in front of the nests. I have hens that sing out wandering around, in this instance I think that's an escort request - Chuck does do this, sometimes. I have hens that sing after they lay, perhaps an escort request as well to go 'back out' to the flock? Perhaps, it never works, Chuck never ever comes for that.

This might be why he's got like 3-4 girls who like him out of my 16 layers.

I saw him trying to get with one of the new girls yesterday. He's trying to have game lol

Some hens don't sing at all and never have.

Chicken TV is the best animal documentary e v e r

 

[kattabelly]

I saw my cow friends on Thursday!

I used to live with these three and it was me who taught the calf that humans will comb your hair and scratch those hard-to-reach spots if you let them get close enough. I'd been past on the bus recently and thought it was them but couldn't work out why they'd be there - apparently they're on holiday as a tourist attraction

The people they belong to have been losing hens from their flock of Hylines now they're a few years old, and they're thinking of getting older breeds when they come to replace them which is good to hear. I happened to have one of the pullet's eggs in my pocket and showed it off, so might end up either giving them a few birds or hatching some chicks for them in future.

 

[kattabelly]

Now she's just showing off. One every day this week and then two double yolkers in two days.

 

[Perris]

Now she's just showing off. One every day this week and then two double yolkers in two days.
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enjoy it while it lasts!