Rocky wants a close up xD
Chicken "in your face" pictures!!
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Rocky wants a close up xD
Piko knows he's handsome.
Aiko needs her beak trimmed, I know.
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Out of the 5 hens I have laying, my Wyandotte seems to prefer the basket over the nest boxes and lays there almost exclusively, even when it's 15 degrees outside, my Leghorn and two of my EE's will use both locations, and my other EE doesn't care for the basket at all, choosing to lay in the nest boxes exclusively.
I initially put it out there to give the one EE who is lowest in the pecking order, and thus, was being physically thrown out of the coop by my Leghorn (top of the pecking order) any time she went in the coop to lay... But now that the others have found it, she doesn't have any trouble laying wherever she wants. It is possible that I actually did need 3 nesting boxes for 7 hens, but I went with the recommended 1 box for every 4-5 hens and just built two... Interestingly, I have noticed a remarkable reduction in egg songs since the basket. So, my flock is very very quiet now. I got one egg song two weeks ago... all my other hens were like "What the heck is that, Loudy McLouderson!!?"
I think I read somewhere that the egg song is meant as a kind of reminder to the flock that this new loud bird who is coming back is a dear old friend, and not a new chicken that must be eaten to death, when she comes back from her hidden nest spot... It is possible that since the nest basket is so public, they've done away with the need for an egg song. I dunno.
Out of the 5 hens I have laying, my Wyandotte seems to prefer the basket over the nest boxes and lays there almost exclusively, even when it's 15 degrees outside, my Leghorn and two of my EE's will use both locations, and my other EE doesn't care for the basket at all, choosing to lay in the nest boxes exclusively.
I initially put it out there to give the one EE who is lowest in the pecking order, and thus, was being physically thrown out of the coop by my Leghorn (top of the pecking order) any time she went in the coop to lay... But now that the others have found it, she doesn't have any trouble laying wherever she wants. It is possible that I actually did need 3 nesting boxes for 7 hens, but I went with the recommended 1 box for every 4-5 hens and just built two... Interestingly, I have noticed a remarkable reduction in egg songs since the basket. So, my flock is very very quiet now. I got one egg song two weeks ago... all my other hens were like "What the heck is that, Loudy McLouderson!!?"
I think I read somewhere that the egg song is meant as a kind of reminder to the flock that this new loud bird who is coming back is a dear old friend, and not a new chicken that must be eaten to death, when she comes back from her hidden nest spot... It is possible that since the nest basket is so public, they've done away with the need for an egg song. I dunno.
Aww, love the last and first pic outdoorsii!!
thanks, yea the last pic is of my lil Nankin/oe mix girl, she's my sweetheart Angel love her to death
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