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    Chicken obsessed with rocks?

    An update: She is finally laying eggs again regularly, but today she managed to further perplex me. Somehow she managed to maneuver a wrench (what!?!?) into her nest. First rocks, now tools. I give up! At least my tools might be accompanied by some yummy eggs.
  2. csbarber

    Chicken obsessed with rocks?

    She has laid fairly regularly for about three years now and broods often - on ANYTHING. She will brood on her own poop (its sad). She has specifically targeted the rock "eggs" for about a year and a half. When ever she gets intense about the brooding she stops laying. She and I argue about her...
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    Do chickens have rehoming instincs?

    I don't know about homing so much, but my chicken wander freely between our yard and our neighbors. Sometimes I don't see them for several weeks at a time - I have no ideas where they are (all the fences around are chain link so I can see through all the yards - no chickens). Then all of a...
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    Chicken obsessed with rocks?

    I keep finding one of my chicken brooding on piles of rocks in her nesting box. I take the rocks out of her nest, then about a week later its full of rocks again. I have literally filled buckets with her rock "eggs"!?! I would never have thought a chicken could move rocks. These aren't pebbles...
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    Noisy Sussex. Help!

    I have two chickens: a bantam brahma and a sussex. They get along well and do basically everything together. Recently though, the sussex has been "making morning announcements". They are so loud and my husband and I dread having to go out there and get her to shut up. She carries on until you go...
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