delalux

Wow, thank you for your suggestions. My choice of word "punishment" was perhaps the wrong one to use as I took the cover off immediately. I was just trying to reset or stop a tantrum that looked like annoyance mixed with panic. I have been with Scarlett almost 24/7 from the day she came into my life. She sometimes screeches but nothing like she had been for days. Today she is back to normal and I can not think of what may have been different. We are going to see her vet in a few hrs for her health certificate and tomorrow my husband (her man) will be home. She knows when that is supposed to happen...and what comes next. Because we travel so often and she is exposed to new things all the time she isn't easily upset by change. Her calm demeaner suprises everyone. She has even been talking to people in the airport. I heard that hens can get eggbound in the desert and that it is fatal. How would you know and what can be done?

Scarlett loves my husband who works out of town every other two weeks. She will bite me at every opportunity even though I am the one that takes care of her. We have been doing this routine for a couple years and it is only this two weeks she has been doing excessive screeching...mostly in the morning. I have been putting her back in the cage and covering her as a punishment but so far it has not changed the frequency of the screeching.

Scarlett will be 7 next January. I have had her for almost three years. We live in Alaska two weeks of the month and fly to Nevada for the other two. Often traveling in our rv down there. Scarlett has her cages and toys wherever we are. She loves to go outside. Her wings are clipped and we are never out of sight when she is out. It is too cold for her to go outside in Alaska now. We recently came back from a trip where she was outside all day eating apples off the tree and lots of watermelon. I can not please her now. She screeches and screeches no matter what I do. Everything else is the same. Sometimes she holds her wings out away from her body (not extended) while screeching like she wants to fly off. I don't know what to do. She looks and acts healthy. Could it be she is just spoiled? We have been back in Alaska for almost two weeks and will be leaving again soon but the screeching has to stop. Any advice is welcome.