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    How to trick free ranging hen into laying in coop again

    I didn't mention, I haven't pinned them up since Monday, and I got an egg from her on Tuesday. I am introducing chicks to the flock this weekend and will pen them up again and I imagine that would help keep them in check. Thanks for the advice! I'm sick over all the lost eggs in the woods since...
  2. humblehillsfarm

    How to trick free ranging hen into laying in coop again

    I penned them in with some T-posts and some chicken wire. Didn’t take too long. On day one I got seven eggs from nine layers and none were my errant egg layer. I let them all out around 5pm and they were more than ready to be let out. Poor things laid around all day going “what the cluck?” On...
  3. humblehillsfarm

    How to trick free ranging hen into laying in coop again

    I do have some spare tposts laying around and fencing. I'll give it a shot this weekend and see how that goes.
  4. humblehillsfarm

    How to trick free ranging hen into laying in coop again

    There are still eggs being laid in the coop. Unfortunately I don't have a run, but it's on the agenda for the summer. I just moved a few months ago. We even moved the coop which was an insane task, but formerly they did have a run. I would lock them in the coop but it gets too hot during the...
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    How to trick free ranging hen into laying in coop again

    So one of my hens accidentally got locked out of the coop one afternoon. Next thing I know she's singing her egg song, and I realized too late that she had already laid... somewhere in the woods. Fast forward a month and she's not laid in the coop since that day. Last time a first-time egg-layer...
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