It wasn't really a concern just curiosity anyway. Most of my birds are relatively young (not exactly new to laying but haven't been laying long) maybe they're stressed out? I do have a hawk that's recently started hanging around?
Not possible, no one is ever here except my husband, 9 month old son, and myself. My sons too little, my husband doesn't play jokes, and I don't believe I would do it to myself.
They're a mixed brew and yes they are all chicken eggs. And I collected them myself. I know they're were extra I just wanted to know why. They haven't done it again yet. I'm just assuming it was a fluke.
Little over 30. 4 are turkeys, ones a duck, and six roosters (all but two are kept separate from hens and each other because they're going to be food in a week or so) the rest are hens
I know chickens lay every 25 hours. The day before yesterday I got all the eggs and made sure at the end of the day all the boxes were empty. My husband came behind me a couple hours later and confirmed all empty boxes.
The next day I found seven more eggs than we have hens. Anyone know anything...
We keep roosters separate from hens except the ones we want to breed (to prevent inbreeding) no hens are getting over bred. And does this problem happen before sexual maturity?
This is the closest category I found to my question sorry if it's wrong. I have a beautiful rooster, I raised him from a baby took great care of him like all my chickens and handled him enough to keep him tame. The rest of my chickens I can walk up to and pick up and pet, they'll even come to...
I've seen foxes here. And never seen a skunk near my property only seen one raccoon near here and that was five miles and dead. I'm sure it was the fox
I've seen racoons and possums eat eggs, they leave a mess. The hen would leave her nest to eat at night, we think it got them then. Can't even tell there was a nest there now, no shells, just a few feathers.