Hey, Let's share!!!!!

[trulefty]

Why do all 5 of my girls want to lay in the same nest box??? I have 8 available to them....

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Welcome to the worlds of Hens.

 

[ranchhand]

They just do that- sometimes you get 3 or 4 in one box. We like pics on BYC! Especially the funny ones!

 

[bigredfeather]

I've seen two hens in one nesting box at the same time, and there were 6 other boxes not being used at that time.
Crazy hens!

 

[chicknjane]

It's a girl thing.

 

[beth59]

We have a BO girl that has become broody in the last week. I went out to check for eggs the other afternoon and all our nest boxes had a hen on them, except for the one in the middle. It had two. I guess one of the RIRs decided that she'd squeeze in since the BO wasn't going to give it up. I've never seen them share a nest box before, but they seemed quite content.

Beth

 

[PandoraTaylor]

I went in the coop last night and found my rooster in a nestbox and a hen setting on him!

they do very funny things for seemly no reason!

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

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[M To The Maxx]

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x2 That happened to my hens too.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I had two that not only shared a nestbox, but shared (stole?) an egg back and forth and ended up hatching the lone baby. They shared the mothering of the baby too. Poor baby.