- May 18, 2012
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I have four New Hampshire Reds and they are just now old enough to be laying. We got our very first egg today!! I went out because three of the four were pecking at the backdoor. I went out to look around and they followed me pecking at my pant leg like something was wrong. I could not for the life of me find the fourth hen. I decided to go check the coop and sure enough she was in a nesting box sitting on an egg. I took the egg, but she keeps going back to the coop looking for her egg and sitting where she was in her nesting box. I'm thinking maybe I should put the egg back out there for her for a little bit maybe? For what it is worth we have no rooster so these are unfertilized. I am also thinking our nesting boxes are too small for the girls, she just barely fits in there and seems very sad and confused right now. If a chicken can be such a thing.
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