4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Pedro1962]

When I went to 'tuck' the girls in last night, one of them (Cleo) was making a low-pitched moaning sound. It was almost a mooing sound, which she was making repeatedly.

 

From the sound, I assumed that something was wrong. However, I checked her over and could not find anything immediately apparent.

 

Anyway, this morning I went to check them before letting them out of their cube and Cleo seems to be fine.

 

As Cleo is possibly the world's daftest hen, it may be that she discovered that she could make the noise and then wanted to practice...

 

Anyone else noticed their hens making this kind of baleful noise?

[Patricia W]

Was it a sort of low purr? That's the sound mine make when they are happy.

[C&T]

We have one that makes all sorts of daft noises...

 

I am CONVINCED one day she was croaking like a frog... I couldn't see any frogs, so can only assume it was her!!

 

She is also as daft as they come...

[Pedro1962]

Was it a sort of low purr? That's the sound mine make when they are happy.

 

It was more of a snoring noise and it was loud (for a chicken). In fact I called out as I was approaching the cube, "which one of you girls is snoring?"

 

Next door's cat had been sniffing about before their bedtime and Cleo had been most put out by his presence.

 

Might it be something to do with that...

 

Or it might just be that I've got a seriously daft hen who likes to do impressions!

[hilda-and-evadne]

It was more of a snoring noise and it was loud (for a chicken). In fact I called out as I was approaching the cube, "which one of you girls is snoring?"

 

One of mine was making that sort of noise one evening, and I realised that it happened every time she inhaled. I was well scared - thinking "fluid in her wind pipe" - but let her go to bed as usual. She wasn't making the noise in the morning, I put citricidal in the hens' drinking water that day, and it hasn't happened since.

[Pedro1962]

 

One of mine was making that sort of noise one evening, and I realised that it happened every time she inhaled. I was well scared - thinking "fluid in her wind pipe" - but let her go to bed as usual. She wasn't making the noise in the morning, I put citricidal in the hens' drinking water that day, and it hasn't happened since.

 

I have ordered some citricidal today. Many thanks.