screaming chicken;-)

This is one of our Light Brahma pullets showing vocal protest while I take out 2 eggs from under her, enjoy!

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Pets & Animals

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• Bird
• Brahma
• chicken
• vocals

[CowsAndCrows]

haha my hen does that too.. she screams like some monkey in pain.. but she wont peck and she will gladly stand for me while i take her eggs.. then goes back to sitting before shes finished and hungry again, must be just a natural chicken reaction,

[joachimdippold]

Yes, some hens do this. I´d say a handful out of our birds do it. From our observation it´s a trait just like any other trait, but a funny one;-)

[HaileyJane19]

Why do they do this? Is this for hens who just lay regular eggs or were they fertile eggs? And is this what they call "broody"? Lol.

[joachimdippold]

Some hens just love to scream!LOL! Seriously, some hens perform way more vocalization than others, and from our limited experience this is hereditary. We also found a correlation between increased vocalizaton and broodiness: the more broody-traits our birds have the less they scream! Our best cluckies don´t scream, our most clumsy clukies (=broody hen) scream alot . The term cluckie comes from the sounds the mother hens make: cluck-cluck-cluck, broody is just another (modern) term for cluckie.

[shawngulledge]

hurry up and break its neck, I like my chicken fried, spicey with mashed potatoes and gravey thank you very much.

[koperskilax]

crazy

[gfinn08]

your hen didn't peck you, my pigeons put up a whole fight

[SSanf]

My chickens got all excited and started screaming back at her! What fun!

[joachimdippold]

Really no need to feel sorry for her, we always allow around 1/3rd of our hens to sit, so with time she´ll have her turn. Just right now we have 15 cluckies out of 40 hens..LOL!

[neg8qre]

I still feels a little bit sorry for her. she wants to be a mother. I love the sounds she does at :21 ^^ sounds so cute ^^