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If you ever get a broody be sure to reach up under her wings to remove any eggs she's got tucked in there BEFORE pulling her out of the next box. (I call this "picking her pockets"). It's an AWFUL mess to crush an egg between the hen's wing and her body when you lift her.

:lau I live in a golf resort area so used balls are cheap and readily available in thrift stores. At some point in the next few years I expect to find some round, white "rocks" in the compost. It amazes me how readily hens can move golf balls or eggs from one place to another. They can't...

Collecting golf balls. After the POL pullets kept kicking them out of the boxes so that I was losing them in the deep litter, I was down to one golf ball per nest. That's not good enough for one of the girls. This is what I found last night: Not sitting on them (of course that may come)...