Hide n Seek with the eggs? What is up with that?

Our chickens like to hide their eggs. If they can hide them they will.

You'd be surprised at how good they are at hiding their eggs. I once had a duck that was laying about 6 eggs a week. I was collecting them daily, but one day, she just stopped laying for about 4 days in a row. During those days, I would spend atleast an hour just looking to see if she was hiding them (Searched the entire run, every inch of it). Then , I went and got some of her eggs (3) from the fridge and put them in her nest and guess what I found the next day. 7 eggs in the nest, all from that duck. (I know, it's a duck, but chickens can still be the same way)

It could just be a numbers game.  You got 2-3 eggs from 16 pullets, so around 6 or so are laying.  When they start out the don't always lay every day.  So that means that a pullet is laying an egg every other to two out if three days.  If their days off fall on the same day, you will get a big zero.  I was so tempted to a goose egg, and confuse the issue.

See now mine started to lay last week and i have been finding 3 eggs a day so i think 3 girls are laying but yesterday nothing except the goose egg. i find it really strange that all of a sudden no pullet eggs i will see if i get any today. 

If you think that is fun, our guineas seem to lay on the run. I mean while moving, since we find eggs in different places all the time. Some are under a bush, in the middle of the run out in the in the open, and othe times in the hen house flour, but never in a box.