hiding eggs

My free range girls like to hide/lay their eggs. I will watch them and find their spot and then two days later they shift on me and I have to hunt them down again. I have a coop, but two of the girls get really loud and indignant if they are locked in, and since I am in an urban area I can’t...

This happens to me once every six months... I notice a drop-off in the number of eggs my hens are laying. I ignore it - figure they're just taking a break. I happen to glance under the coop, and notice what appears to be one egg. I investigate. It's a pile of thirty eggs.

This is my first year raising ducks. I started out with four cayugas, 3 ducks and 1 drake. Last month we lost two to a coyote or neighborhood dogs. We found one dead and one had been carried away, we never found him. We had eggs for another three weeks, but we have had no eggs from the remaining...

My five hens (w/one rooster) have been producing two eggs on average in their nest boxes, down from three in early November. I thought this was due to the short days. Today I discover twelve eggs secreted in the fenced yard, all laid since I last looked a month or so ago. I think two of the...