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| Hosanna |
Posted - Dec 16 2009 : 05:10:10 AM
My young hens started out by dropping their eggs all over the yard; driveway, etc. One day we were in the kitchen when my 4 year old niece looked out the window, and in a shocked voice said - "That egg just fell out of that chicken's butt!"
Then they got a clue and started laying in one of my husband's square hay balers not in use out in the equipment yard, in the hay chamber.
After that they moved to the old pump house/privy behind the house. We use it as a garden shed now. It is built on a concrete slab, with a chute out the side to drain down the hillside. The hens got up in there, way out of reach, and laid their eggs. No matter; I simply went into the building, opened the cover on the hole in the floor where the "Thunder Box" used to be, and reached down to grab them.
After it got colder recently, they found an old truck cab behind the tool shed that just sits on the ground - they're currently laying in the wheel well in some leaves.
The only logical place my hens have ever laid is in the hay barn in a pile of hay under an old door! So where do your free range hens lay that's outrageous?
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Dec 17 2009 : 08:54:39 AM
Well, this may not be too strange, but one of mine has started laying in the hay bales in the hay shed. And some of the others have found a nice cozy corner in the goat barn (right next to their nice nest boxes in the coop) and they stand in line, literaly, and wait their turn. No matter that there are about a dozen other corners, if there's a hen in that particular corner, they all want it. We used to have 2 hens that laid their eggs in Truckin' Man's garage in the bottom shelf of a storage shelf.
There have been some strange places I have found hens setting on nests this past year. The strangest and scariest was in the milk room. I was not expecting to reach up on a shelf and feel a warm fluffy body. It scared me to death!
Kris
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| peachy |
Posted - Dec 17 2009 : 07:40:46 AM
Aren't hens funny! I just found 9 eggs burrowed inside one of our round bales! What a hoot!! My ducks had been using our awful clay driveway for a swimming hole this fall...after the water dried up we found tons of duck eggs that they must have laid while swimming around! All of my girls seem to be on strike now that the time has changed and the weather is cold - not an egg to be found around here!!
Melissa
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| deeredawn |
Posted - Dec 17 2009 : 07:34:20 AM
Wow. I just glanced at the topic subject very quickly and almost fell out of my chair! Okay, HENS LAYING EGGS...phew! Sorry, my mind is in the gutter again... My lay on TOP of the nesting boxes - not IN them...
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Dec 16 2009 : 09:26:20 AM
We must have very well behaved hens. When our pullets started laying this year, we found one on the floor of the coop. We had the nest covered so they wouldn't roost there. We uncovered the nests and they have laid there ever since. I looked for eggs all over but found none. They are free range also.
Belle |
| Faransgirl |
Posted - Dec 16 2009 : 07:37:30 AM
We use to have one at the place we stabled our horses that alway laid her eggs under the Mare's feed bucket. She would sit there while Sox was eating and lay her eggs. Sox never once stepped on one. Guess she knew what they were.
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