I don't think so. My dad had us lock up the chickens for about 2 weeks without letting them out because they either disappeared at night or wouldn't sleep in the coop, since we free range until we finish their pen, and thats when we started getting eggs. Filled up two and a half cartons me...
3 of my wonderful hens were doing that today. Found 2 eggs. not surprisingly, one wasn't in a box, even though she had been clucking up and turning around and around in that box. I'm pretty sure the one that hadn't layed had done so this morning. I hope your chicken eggs up that box soon!
Oh, it depends how old she is. My hens just started laying this month and we got them in Marchish-Mayish, and only a couple have started. I guess it also depends on what breed of chicken you have. Mine was Rhode islands.
I have a question about my rooster. He seems very, very flighty. Whenever we walk towards him, he freaks and runs. I've never had a rooster like this before, because my first rooster[or, roosters] would attack you, and my second one was like that for a little while, because we got him and a hen...
Hello BYC! I'm Winter, 15 years old and I'm from Redneck country[around the northern states] I've always had a chicken from I think the age of 7, were I first fell in love with chickens because of my rooster Kanoodle [may he rest in peace], after a few years we got a flock of Rhode Island Reds...
About last week as I went to check the chicken coop. In the hen box was an egg. It looked fine to me at first, but when I got closer it seemed to be covered in this broken layer of slime like the egg white, and the shell pretty light colored. I reached to grab it like any normal egg, but when I...