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.
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...
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...
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...
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...