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[brown.l26]

Hi

we have had our girls since 30.08.08. They both laid an egg on the same day 9.09.08 and have laid an egg each, every day since.

 

Today Stottie (Amber Star) was in the Eglu laying and Pickle (Black Star) was screaching at the top of her voice. I ran outside and thought it was because she had been spooked by the dog next door, but even when i moved her she would not shut up. She only stopped when Stottie came out of the Eglu.

 

Does this mean she is telling us (and the whole world) that Stottie is laying? or could it be that she is missing her. (She does tend to look for her if she does not know where she is.)

She doesn't make this much noise when laying herself. I hope it was a one off as this screaching lasted half an hour. We don't want to upset the neighbours.

 

Any thoughts?

 

cheers

Linda

[Baggins]

Tiki does exactly this when Koru is on the nest. I haven't come across this behaviour with any of my other chickens.

 

I remove Tiki so that she can't see Koru on the nest and she tends to quieten down a bit - might be worth a try.

 

Unfortunately, Koru has the loudest post-egg-laying crow I have ever heard so it's never quiet here for long!

[brown.l26]

Hi, Baggins

 

thanks for that i will give it a try

 

cheers

[eggypeggy]

Oh.. that's funny.. MIne do exactly the same thing.. Not sure which one or if it's both though.

On the up side I know that there will be an egg when I go down for a look. Luckily for me neither of my chooks are early layers.. so it's only usually around 10 ish in the morning and they don't do it everyday!

 

None of my neighbours have complained.. But they are super loud when they get going.

[Janty]

One of my pekins does this when she can't get to a nesting box on her own. She has a eglu and two cubes to choose from but she prefers one of the cubes and if anyone is in 'her' box when she wants it, there's trouble.

[Hen Watch]

I get this when 1 is laying and another wants to lay at the same time. So she will pace up and down the run squawking until she can get in and lay.

 

I did put an oven dish with bedding in the eglu as an extra "overflow" nestbox but they've only used it a couple of times.

[EileenH]

I`ve been wondering about this actually.

Beauty is laying every day but Ginger has yet to start. Beauty goes on to the nest each morning about 10 and Ginger wanders in and out - apparently keeping her company or just being nosy. What if she decided to lay and Beauty or Beauty`s egg was already there? Do chickens share the space? Would she break Beauty`s egg - even accidentally?

Silly questions I know - just an ignorant new-chook-person me.

[The Dogmother]

Mine just bundle in on top of each other!

[Dave36]

Sometimes when we havent been able to collect our eggs we sometimes get 5 or 6 eggs all in the same little hollow in the straw, none have been broken yet.

 

Dave & Jo

[brown.l26]

our two lay in the same place and we have not had any broken eggs, we have discovered Pickle makes such a noise when Stottie is laying but not the other way round. I guess some are just different

 

Linda

[choppish]

uif mine are both free ranging during the morning, one will look up and discover her mate isnlt there( becasue she is laying) ...she then goes mad!

 

and the the other will do it as well when she comes to lay. however, if they are both in the run they never make a noise when the other is laying.

 

 

i think it is becaue they lose sight of each other and panic...

[Christian]

Mine all announce that they have laid an egg - even Laverne who has retired

 

She will shout out when one of the others is laying

[The Dogmother]

My Lavinia (when she isn't broody!) announces her eggs with her impression of a seagull - it's ear-piercing