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Ok,Before I go and take her to the Vet and find out this is normal.I just noticed in the past hour or so my Female is acting a little strange.For one,she is real quite for a change.Sitting on the pertch she is squated down with feathers all poofed out.She will just suddenly stretch her head out and slowly arch her dead downward speeding up until she touches the pertch with her beak.Also,while doing this she slightly spreads her wings out.First thing that popped to mind is maybe she is trying to pass an egg but there is no nesting box or any form of nexting material in the cage.Plus Blueberry(my male) does the dance all the time but acts like he has no clue on what else to do(is there a IRN Sex Ed class I can enrole him in to maybe give him a clue ).

oh yea,Forgot to put when I come to the cage to interact with them she is here normal self.Comes over.Nibbles on the finger.Acts a nut.I got her out and she was just bouncing all over the place as normal.Flying around......still has to master the fact that a wall cannot be landed on.As I am typing this she has livened up and is throwing their food all over the room.....Guess she wants a treat.....Why do I always get birds that train ME!

hehe I would not be worried at all.

I have never had an IRN.. nor had a friend with IRN's that tried to lay eggs when there was no environment that could be utilised as a breeding box.

It does sound like normal breeding season shenanigans. That bowing and wing spread is very similar to what alot of my birds do. You might even find that their eye's pin (white becomes large and the pupil shrinks to a tiny fragment of its original size).

My young birds did similar actions well and truely out of breeding season as well as when it was roughly that time of the year.

Usually if the hen is egg bound she would be on the bottom of the cage not perched on a perch. You can also tell if her vent is extended or she looks puffyier around the vent. Any hen can lay an egg at any given time without have nesting materials.


Donna