I have 6 leghorns, 3 red non-descript TSC pullets and 3 giant jerseys. I found our first egg on 07/07/2013, The second egg a few days later. Found 2 today. I have an outside perch about 6 feet off of the ground. a 6" x 1" x 10' that they love. Over the weekend I found one on the ground under the perch and part of the shell laying near by. /The membrane wasn't broken. I am sure that one laid it when they were on the perch. Being that they are under 18 weeks do you think that they could have tried to drop one there from the perch? Since they are so young, could they have just sorta dropped it out by accident? I have baskets on their sides under a bench like structure in the chicken coop. They prefer to lay under the bench, not in the basket. So I moved the basket and they are quite happy laying on the straw on the floor in the corner under the bench.
