Hens with Superstrength?

[2DogsFarm]

I just got back from a week away (Dad-sitting in CA) and found my 17wk old pullets looking more like hens than ever - 2 of the 5 have larger red wattles & combs than when I left!
(yippeee!!! eggs will be here soon!!!)

I had "salted" the nestboxes with fake wooden eggs - about the same size & weight as a real egg - and 2 of them were on the coop floor.
The boxes are old fruit crates set about 1' off the floor & filled with shavings. I have a couple 2X4s acting as ramps up to them.

How the heck can they pick up & move something so large with those ittybitty beaks???

 

[Hollywood Chickens]

with their wings

 

[Judy]

Mine scratch and kick and peck in the nest boxes and I find golf balls on the floor. When they started laying I was finding eggs on the floor as well. They still kick a golf ball out now and then but seem to have started using just the nest boxes for laying.

Sometimes it takes them a while to get the hang of things.

 

[2DogsFarm]

Quote:

You're kidding, right?

ddawn: that makes sense - Chicken Football/Soccer?

<Go Team!

 

[cmom]

I have wood about 6 inches high in the front of my nest boxes. Also I have a golf ball in each box.