I really wasn't sure which category to post this under, but my 9th grade daughter needs some help on a science fair project idea. We need something pretty simple, because I am of little help, and her command of the English language isn't the best (adopted just 4 years ago from China), so that is...
My daughter comes in from closing up the coop one night and announces, "Mom, one of the chickens is missing." I ask, "Are you sure?" and before I have time to stand up, she is back announcing, "There is a chicken on the roof!"
Yes, there was Dorothy, not our brightest, who has managed to get on...
And a quick update, one of the eggs is back but a considerable distance from the nest. I think I will take someone else's advice and put some plastic Easter eggs out there and see what happens.
I recently bought some very realistic fake eggs at an estate sale. My daughter convinced me to put them in our chickens nesting box to encourage them to lay more.
These eggs looked so much like what ours lay that we marked them with a sticker so we would not accidentally pick them up. They were...