I put a dog crate around Agatha's nest because that's HER nest and she wasn't moving! Given her current good humor, I wasn't about to make her, either. We tried putting her in a nest box that was a little more out of the way at first and she came uncorked - the noise when she woke up and...
Oh, goodness! I've got one of those right now. Sweet little Agatha, the chicken so gentle she "belongs" to my 8 year old granddaughter Katie, has morphed into <drum roll> Dragon Lady. She's awful! I go in the coop to clean the poop board and she lays on that nest, growling and fluffing and...