Oh I do indeed have one and swear by it. I didn't look around the roost first thing this morning as the idea she dropped an egg from there only just came to me.
Of course they are thinking about it...after all, that is where Mum lives, in the big coop!They are thinking about it… I can tell mental note add door screen to the never ending to do list
This is kind of funny (not like ha ha funny, rather cool/odd, funny) My chickens, broody or not..though they DO poop during the night, the majority of my hens let loose a very large poop as soon as I let them out in the morning. I would say 2/3 size of a broody poop, but not as stinky. Most (not all!) night time poops under the roosts are much smaller. It's almost like they hold onto the 2nd half of the night's worth of poop to let it loose outside?? (It is much more true this time of year, a bit less so in the winter...?maybe because the nights are so long then?)
I just got another paper thin broke egg in the nest box. I was able to get it out with yolk and some albumin still intact, I squeezed the good stuff out for old Penelope and threw the shell in the bin.
How old is Blanche? I would be worried for 2 reasons: 1) Thin shelled or rubbery eggs (i.e. no shell, just membrane) are harder for them to lay, and may break inside them (setting them up an infection) and 2) It can be indicative of low calcium levels. If she doesn't have enough calcium reserves...it means she is pulling some from her bones.
Diana only ever lays no-shell eggs with the exception of every now and then a paper thin shell that breaks on contact
