Sounds like you have her trained pretty well. Or maybe the other way around? lol Where my free-range turkeys lay, only God knows where. Some lay where we can find the eggs, but most go into the woods or down over the bank to lay their eggs. And they are really good at hiding them. Our neighbor's Pyrenees has been hanging around, and she loves eggs so I'm sure she is sniffing them out and eating them.
I have lost hens that I didn't find their nest but the coyotes did.
Thankfully we have so many LGDs around between ours and the neighbors that coyotes stay far away from here. They are extra mouths to feed because they hang out here more than they stay at their own house but they are skinny and hungry so we feed them too. They repay us by helping guard our property so I definitely appreciate them. There is 3 of them total that hang around from the neighbors, but “Stinky” as I call her, is here the most.
where did you find ceramic goose eggs?
I found some chalk eggs at Dollar tree and they seem to like them .
I want to lock them in the coop for the rest of the season, but they will bark at me nonstop, until I let them out.
Surprise, I found a new egg in one of the nests with eaten eggs. I guess one hen is still using the nest. I should have a ceramic egg to give her by next week.I found the remains of two nests. Looks like the hens had laid quite a few eggs, but a critter smashed and ate all the eggs. The hens are now nesting in a new hidden location.
I’m sorry their nest got ransacked. Hopefully they will keep laying and the varmint that was eating them will quit. The biggest egg suckers I have right now are the LGDs, which is fine because we need to keep poult numbers down anyway. It’s a pretty good form of birth control for both the chickens and the turkeys and eliminates weed hatches. No unauthorized births are gonna happen with them around.
