Robin Linn Eldridge
Chirping
Hey all. My queen of the coop( PBR), in the last week has taken to collecting everyone's eggs and rolling them into a corner behind the nesting boxes (crazy hard for me to get to, and the space is too small for my leg horns to get into as well) at first we thought that maybe she had gone broody, and being the bossy little thing that she is was wanting ALL the eggs to sit on, not just hers. But everyday that I have gone out to check on everything, the eggs are gone! I have been down right furious, thinking that someone(neighbor or neighborhood kids) had been "stealing the egss" but this morning as I was feeding up I noticed Gidget was back in her hidey hole and I heard a tap-tap-tap so I went around and peeked in, she had collected 4 eggs and was sitting in front of them purposely cracking them open and eating them! Why is she doing this, and more importantly how do I make her stop!? We haven't had a single egg in almost a week, and we generally get 7-8 eggs a day! Also, she has gotten mean! Gidget has been my 4yo daughters best friend since hatching, is usually very loving amd will seekout cuddles when me or my daughter go in the yard and now she chases my daughter and tries to peck me at every opportunity :'(