Chicken moving eggs from one raised nesting box to another???

[ddmcb]

This is how I break broodies, works great!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/broody-breaking-ala-aart.77915/

Thanks so much! I'll do that tomorrow then!

 

[UpstateChickenDaddy]

Old post I know but I came to see if this was a thing. I thought I was crazy the first time. But now it happened again. A hen moved the fake egg over to the other nest box requiring her to tuck it in her chest or something. Remarkable. I know this is old news too but I find it funny that while there are four nest boxes, at least five of seven hens all use one and the other two one other. The third and fourth nest boxes just remain unused.

 

[Possum-Pie]

Old post I know but I came to see if this was a thing. I thought I was crazy the first time. But now it happened again. A hen moved the fake egg over to the other nest box requiring her to tuck it in her chest or something. Remarkable. I know this is old news too but I find it funny that while there are four nest boxes, at least five of seven hens all use one and the other two one other. The third and fourth nest boxes just remain unused.

One of chicken's mysteries. I think chickens pick some aspect of a nesting box they like (near a window/in the shadows/on the end/in the middle/etc.) and adopt it. Funny story but when I was in college, in the dorm bathroom were 4 stalls. Most guys ALWAYS used the same particular stall that they "adopted" at the start of the semester>