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Eggs are tricky lol. I thought French marans and cuckoo marans laid similar color eggs with the cuckoo being slightly lighter, so it is hard to say if the 2 dark eggs are from the same or different girls. 🤔In theory, you should have 3 blue/green egg layers, but have you ever had a day where you...

This! We currently have 7 nest boxes for 13 laying hens - 3 in each coop + 1 extra added when 2 broodys insisted on hatching in the regular nest boxes. Where do they lay eggs? All of them use one box and a depression in the shavings on the floor next to that box🙄

So we have learned that the egg song doesn't necessarily mean someone has laid an egg. It has various meanings: I have laid an egg, I am going to lay an egg. Someone else has laid an egg... And my favorite - I need to lay an egg, but you are in my favorite nest box so hurry up and get out🤣...

They probably aren't eating the eggs, but they may be laying them somewhere besides the nest box. The only way I know of to find a hidden nest is to sit and watch them or do a thorough search of the property 😕 It won't hurt them to be locked in the coop (or coop and run if you have one) for a...