Locks on coop = more eggs

[scarter]

I find it strange that the girls were locked up in their coop until 3 today and we had not one egg in there. This week they've been out and been laying in the hay and I get 8-9 eggs daily. I though nothing of this until I read this thread. I'd better have some egg laying in the next few hours!

 

[countrybum]

If they were locked in the coop with out enough sun light, that could be the reason for lack of eggs.

 

[columbiacritter]

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Wish I could, but I still have to work for a living so I'm gone 9 hours a day as is the neighbor who was also losing eggs. I would love to fill someone's hiney with rock salt.

we think we know who was doing it. We found trails through our pastures that weren't there last fall both leading toward the same house about 10 acres away. Chad is going to add about four strands of barbed wire to the fence they've been coming through as a hint we know what they were doing.

 

[cmom]

I had the same thing happen. I usually have plenty of eggs and if someone wants some I will give eggs to them. For over a week I stopped getting any eggs and I was baffled as my girls have never failed me and they weren't molting. I have electric wire around my coop, run and their yard so I didn't think it was a four legged predator. I finally caught a family member who was staying with us for awhile until she could get a job and on her own helping herself to the eggs in the nest boxes and cleaning them out everyday. She was eating only eggs. She had a friend who is on disability SSI staying with her. I told her if she needed eggs just ask me and if I have some she can have them. I do have people that I sell eggs to and I had to tell them I didn't have any. I work graveyard shift so I work at night and sleep days and collect the eggs when I get up.

 

[Lil Chickie Mama]

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Hah!

I totally agree! We live on a grain facility and before we put our house here things kept disappearing a little at a time. We figured: no big deal, what's a wrench or two here and there? Just before we got the house built we had to tear the grill and radiator off the tractor of one of our big trucks (we also run a trucking company) and waddya know, it went missing. Scrap iron. The only way to get in through the gate was with a key, then we saw the forklift was used to lift it and noticed familiar tire tracks to an employee's truck, oh, and he siphoned the remaining gas from the fork lift into his pickup. AHH! I never trusted this guy, he creeped me out, but DH wouldn't listen, he said the guy was just lazy (I'd catch him napping on the clock) but not a threat. But after this they kept an eye on him. When the house went up I saw him peeking in through the windows to see what we had, DH yelled at him, he turned, smiled, and looked in again!!! DH yelled again and told him to get back to work. Finally the last straw was finding a bottle of someone else's prescription drugs in his work area. I know if he had been around much longer, he'd have broken into the house. You just can't trust people! I'd have shot the b@st@rd if he ever tried anything and I caught him!

 

[Brelansmama]

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Just an FYI, we always lock our game cameras to the tree they are in with a cable-style bike lock. If other hunters don't walk off with the camera, the bears certainly will! It wouldn't be the first piece of hunting equipment the local gang of bears stole, or just plain shredded!

 

[cybercat]

Wow, I can not believe some of these stories. Some people know no bounds. Eggs are not that expensive in the store but it alot more expensive going to jail. I hope I never have this problem or there will be some serious hell to pay. Good luck to all those that are having theiving problems.

 

[scarter]

The lack of sunlight was not my problem. I'm now getting a little leary of possible visitors.

 

[countrybum]

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If your chickens are still there I am sure it is not a 4 legged one.

 

[Reinbeau]

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If your chickens are still there I am sure it is not a 4 legged one.

Could be a no-legged one