Ok, I know the answer has to be on this site, but the search option is not an option when I access the site with my smart phone.
So. Here's the deal. I have a 8.5 month old Ameraucana. She's our sweetie; follows you around, bottom of the pecking order, whole nine yards....UNTIL she sits in the nesting box for her daily egg. I get it... she can be crabby. I remember being crabby when the toddler constantly knocked at the bathroom door when he was little. 5 minutes of privacy please! Lol.
So today, we noticed she went into the nest box, but three hours later, she was still in there (webcams)
I finally went out to check on her. Instead of being in the corn, like usual, she was in the middle, puffed up. Hissing as is her nest box standard. But she is still no match for my Kevlar fishing gloves. So I check. Well there's a pink Oro egg, which I take. I caught a glimpse of her blue egg before she shoved it back under her wing. Again, in go the gloves... of course I still filch when she tries to take a finger. you never know when they'll grow teeth. anyway, took her egg too and went into the pain for an hour.
I heard her hissing at one of the other hens, and went to check. She left the nest box and olive had laid her green egg.
Ok, so if daily steeling of all the eggs doesn't keep her from going broody, then I have a broody, and I am ok with that. I have a friendly byc just down the road where I can get fertile eggs. I would mark them so not to take them out from her, but collect the other ladies eggs. I don't agree with separating her from the other girls, there are other nest boxes.
Plus in 4 weeks the whole flock, plus newbies, will be moving to the giant coop. She wants babies, she can raise them. Nature's way, circle of life and all that. Lol.
Am I missing anything?
So. Here's the deal. I have a 8.5 month old Ameraucana. She's our sweetie; follows you around, bottom of the pecking order, whole nine yards....UNTIL she sits in the nesting box for her daily egg. I get it... she can be crabby. I remember being crabby when the toddler constantly knocked at the bathroom door when he was little. 5 minutes of privacy please! Lol.
So today, we noticed she went into the nest box, but three hours later, she was still in there (webcams)
I finally went out to check on her. Instead of being in the corn, like usual, she was in the middle, puffed up. Hissing as is her nest box standard. But she is still no match for my Kevlar fishing gloves. So I check. Well there's a pink Oro egg, which I take. I caught a glimpse of her blue egg before she shoved it back under her wing. Again, in go the gloves... of course I still filch when she tries to take a finger. you never know when they'll grow teeth. anyway, took her egg too and went into the pain for an hour.
I heard her hissing at one of the other hens, and went to check. She left the nest box and olive had laid her green egg.
Ok, so if daily steeling of all the eggs doesn't keep her from going broody, then I have a broody, and I am ok with that. I have a friendly byc just down the road where I can get fertile eggs. I would mark them so not to take them out from her, but collect the other ladies eggs. I don't agree with separating her from the other girls, there are other nest boxes.
Plus in 4 weeks the whole flock, plus newbies, will be moving to the giant coop. She wants babies, she can raise them. Nature's way, circle of life and all that. Lol.
Am I missing anything?
