Author Topic: Finding eggs...... (Read 3030 times)

Dizzycow · « **on:** June 23, 2011, 07:22:09 pm »

I have three POL Cream Legbars who are deeply antisocial. They don't sleep in a hen house with the other hens, they roost in the rafters of a shed, they don't hang out with the others. They are extremely skittish, I can't get anywhere near them. I've noticed that their wattles and combs have gone red, and I recently saw a bit of male interest, so I think they may be either laying or just about to. The problem is that I only ever see them when they're roosting and I shut up the hen house, I don't know where they go during the day. If they are laying I'll never find their eggs. They're already out and about when I open up the hen house in the morning, so stalking them isn't an option. Any suggestions?

OhLaLa · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2011, 07:30:03 pm »

Take a walking stick (to part the long grass etc) and go on a mega search in the nettles / brambles or other overgrown areas, or invest in a time delay camera and see where they head off to.

doganjo · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:18:19 pm »

Find a friend with a dog that does obedience, send them out to seek with the scent from one of the feathers.

little blue · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:31:16 pm »

or ..... pen them in (sorry!)

doganjo · « **Reply #4 on:** June 23, 2011, 08:34:19 pm »

I'll come over with my dogs and retrieve them for you if you like

Dizzycow · « **Reply #5 on:** June 23, 2011, 09:14:33 pm »

I think my dogs would eat them! Maybe that's the problem....?!

Sandy · « **Reply #6 on:** June 23, 2011, 09:24:49 pm »

If I want to find eggs that are mis placed I let our dogs in and they find them, they don't eat the eggs unless I am not quick enough and they drop them!!!!!

Dizzycow · « **Reply #7 on:** June 23, 2011, 09:37:19 pm »

My dogs are rubbish at finding things. Our cocker spaniel disappeared for 24 hours when she was 10 weeks old. She'd gone off on a jaunt and jumped into a storm drain. This was October, we were blessed there was no heavy rain, snow or frost that night or she'd have been a goner. We got the flabrador all fired up and tried to get her to seek her out, she was full of enthusiasm and sniffing everywhere, in retrospect she was just having a marvellous time! I'll give it a go, though!

Sandy · « **Reply #8 on:** June 23, 2011, 09:58:51 pm »

I took them up one day and Rohan, the Yellow lab was focused on some bags of sand that we had stacked, I went to look and my favorite chicken "BIG SANDY" was stuck their with her head down and the others had pooed on her, I let her out and now shes brilliant, always sits by the gate until I go in!! ROhan, our chocolate lab is brilliant and will collect any stray eggs but just now they have taken to the pen I made for the Hubbards we grew for Christmas dinner!!!!! Good luck finding them..........I found 44 DUck eggs last year and my OH sold them ALL!!!