Do your hens relocate their eggs?

[janiedoe]

Another random egg… blue again, bet it’s the same hen! Someone likes that barn floor!

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She's probably one of those exhibitionists.

 

[Ponypoor]

She's probably one of those exhibitionists.

Tippy the Teaser

 

[WingItRanch]

Thanks for sharing! I've never seen it in action but I once found 3 wooden eggs in a nest box. At the time, I had 4 boxes with a single wooden egg in each one. If I didn't live in the middle of nowhere, I'd have thought someone was playing a prank on me!

I don't know if it was a single girl or teamwork but they would have had to lift them over a ledge and carry into a different partition. Crazy chickens! Not even broody behavior- just being weird.

 

[RoyalChick]

Thanks for sharing! I've never seen it in action but I once found 3 wooden eggs in a nest box. At the time, I had 4 boxes with a single wooden egg in each one. If I didn't live in the middle of nowhere, I'd have thought someone was playing a prank on me!

I don't know if it was a single girl or teamwork but they would have had to lift them over a ledge and carry into a different partition. Crazy chickens! Not even broody behavior- just being weird.

My nest boxes are bowls intended for washing dishes so I too was puzzled by the ‘lift over a ledge’ thing.
Bernadette routinely moved eggs from one bowl to another and kicked the fake eggs out.

 

[Bsmac]

I am curious if others have seen their hens relocating their eggs, and if so, how they go about it.
I have three examples I have observed.

1. Bernadette (RIP) who is not looking very successful in this video but actually was an accomplished egg mover. Always the same method - tucked under her ‘chin’.

2. Tassels (no video) who hid eggs under her wings - tucked into her ‘armpit’ - and managed to bring one with her into broody jail.

3. Piglet who tried this method today. A bit of a disaster, but certainly an innovative approach! Not her egg by the way.

Would love to hear other people’s experiences and see pictures and videos of their enterprising hens!

In the second video it looks like she got mad that it broke for her! Poor girl! Very entertaining!

 

[Bsmac]

I love Piglet’s reaction when the egg fell and cracked! This has got to be the chicken version of cussing!

It sure looks like it!