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Title: Do hens heads change color?
Post by: Marc on April 02, 2022, 07:27:24 PM
Had a bird coming in this morning, and heard a "searching putt," & I spotted the bright red head...  "She" went behind a large obstruction (continuing to putt) and popped out right in front of me...  I was expecting a tom or jake, but it was a hen, and she was riled up...

She started cutting and purring...  Although she was close, I angrily purred back, and she got hysterical...  Flying up and down, cutting, and doing a fighting purr.   I would call it "shadow boxing."

I have never seen a hen's head turn red, and upset as she was, I am wondering if it was her, or a jake or tom that took another route?

Oddly, not a gobble to be heard while she carried on like that for about 20 minutes...  I figured I'd have every tom in the area in my lap.
Title: Re: Do hens heads change color?
Post by: MK M GOBL on April 02, 2022, 09:46:54 PM
Sure can. our farm birds could.

MK M GOBL
Title: Re: Do hens heads change color?
Post by: Yoder409 on April 02, 2022, 09:53:14 PM
Quote from: MK M GOBL on April 02, 2022, 09:46:54 PM
Sure can.

MK M GOBL

Yep.

It's much more subtle than the changes on a gobbler's head.   But they change.