Author Topic: Strange laying places (Read 2734 times)

yorksfarmer · « **on:** January 02, 2009, 10:35:01 am »

Does any one elses chickens seem to want to lay anywhere apart from there nest boxes? Ours have a loverly custom built coup with large nesting boxes with loverly fresh warm straw in them. They turfed out all the straw and at first started laying in an old cardboard box but have now upgraded to the higher class flower pots....... Does anyone else have this strange problem?

kaz · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2009, 12:26:45 pm »

Mine are the same. At the moment some lay on the straw in the barn, some on the hay in the barn and others in the goat shed on their hay . Wow betide any goat that gets in their way.
It takes me longer to find them, than to sell them.

Rosemary · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:55:10 pm »

Ours are pretty welbehaved but we used to have a Brown Leghorn who laid all over the place. She laid white eggs so we knew who it was. She wasn't a great layer - but better than we thought. We found a nest with a dozen in the comfrey, another nest under the shed and one in the long grass in the field.

yorksfarmer · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2009, 06:04:47 pm »

Just waiting for chaos when the other dozen start laying and start fighting over the flower pots, they've only got herbs in them maybe there self seasoning birds?

garden cottage · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2009, 11:03:28 pm »

went up into the hay barn to find lots of eggs in a neat little nest, god knows how the chickens got up there, also had been laying eggs in with the rabbit at one time!