strangeanimal
Songster
Hi all ,
I'm having two free rangers sitting on (not a clutch anymore ) a mountain of fertile eggs wherefrom already chicks hatched , the situation doesn't allow me at this point to keep them and a farm will have the eggs (some half hatched out already so it is actually little bit of emergency ) . The issue here is that the two ladies have a great hidingspot and sit to hatch like two lovers between a heavy plate in steel and the wall , also when I want to reach the eggs I have to do it with a fishnet because the plate is too heavy and the hens were clever enough to lay the pile of eggs totally at the end of where they got in .. now it is dark so I d like to remove all eggs and put non fertile under them but my question again here is simply ' how can I remove their eggs without sudden excessive screaming from them since they aren't used to a hand ... they also do not see me feeding them , they simply live in trees and this time of year so it seems in very small areas beneath , I'm worried to scare them off if I can reach the eggs and they would start to scream , the neighbours already complained about them , more the roosters in the trees that crow each time they see little light ... So having them noisy now is totally out of option but so is the keeping of the hatching .
Any suggestions please ?
I'm having two free rangers sitting on (not a clutch anymore ) a mountain of fertile eggs wherefrom already chicks hatched , the situation doesn't allow me at this point to keep them and a farm will have the eggs (some half hatched out already so it is actually little bit of emergency ) . The issue here is that the two ladies have a great hidingspot and sit to hatch like two lovers between a heavy plate in steel and the wall , also when I want to reach the eggs I have to do it with a fishnet because the plate is too heavy and the hens were clever enough to lay the pile of eggs totally at the end of where they got in .. now it is dark so I d like to remove all eggs and put non fertile under them but my question again here is simply ' how can I remove their eggs without sudden excessive screaming from them since they aren't used to a hand ... they also do not see me feeding them , they simply live in trees and this time of year so it seems in very small areas beneath , I'm worried to scare them off if I can reach the eggs and they would start to scream , the neighbours already complained about them , more the roosters in the trees that crow each time they see little light ... So having them noisy now is totally out of option but so is the keeping of the hatching .
Any suggestions please ?