We recently added three Kune Kune pigs to our little patch of paradise and as a result have run into an unforseen problem with our small flock of hens.
Basically, the hens love the pigs and follow them everywhere. Clearly they've worked out they can steal a feed from the pigs' trough at feeding time as well as there being juicy worms turned up where the pigs have rooted-up some of the rushes.
None of this is the problem, per se, it's that because they're out and about with the pigs all day they're not laying in their nest box anymore.
I've found little cache of broken eggshell in amongst the rushes so presumably the hens have taken to laying wherever they happen to be, and the pigs are seeing this as a special treat and eating them.
I don't really want to have to fence the pigs in to keep the hens from them, and doubt that would work anyway.
Has anyone any suggestions on what I can do?