Need Poultry CSI for this mystery.. UPDATE PG 5

[dancingbear]

Since this is a wooden egg that was moved, who says it was carried all the way? A chicken could have dropped it outside that last door. Then it could get moved around more later, tripped over, run into, pecked at, kicked backwards by a chicken scratching the ground near it, etc.

BTW, hen could walk easily with an egg tucked under her chin, held tightly against the breast area, or with an egg under a wing. I've seen them carry chicks that way, (under wings) and chicks wiggle.

 

[A.J.'s]

Once my broody was sitting on 18 eggs. The nest was an orange crate that I had nailed to the wall about 4 feet off the floor.
One day I opened up the door in the chicken house and the nest had fallen onto the floor. But MommaHen had the whole thing under control. The crate was sitting up right about 3 feet from where it would have fallen and the eggs were all in the nest and she was sitting there as contented as she could be.
I accused all the varments in my home of aiding her in her adventure and all denied it. I just could not figure how she got the eggs all safely back into the nest, it could have fallen in the right position I guess, but I know the eggs would have spread out quite a bit.
I just left her as she was and she was happy as could be. I was afraid that she might fear it falling again and abandon it.. they all hatched.

 

[mudhen]

Yep, I am more convinced than ever that it had to be one of the hens that got that egg outside.

Here's a new twist to this story:
This particular wooded egg is now missing! Same egg! I looked around in the coop and scanned the run, but didn't see it anywhere.
At least I know it isn' a rat or squirrel.

I'm guessing one of the hens is just not going to accept this particular egg in any nest and she has taken it upon herself to get it out of the coop.

I'll do a more thorough seach tomorrow, but I have to say this is a real head-scratcher....

 

[cmom]

One thing for sure, it will always be a mystery how that wooden egg got outside the coop. If you put a camera up, be sure it would never happen again.

 

[dancingbear]

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Ok, I don't really think it's a rat or a squirrel either, but how does the egg being gone prove that? Or did I miss something? If it's the chickens, wouldn't it still be there, somewhere?

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I have a broody silkie sitting on half a dozen eggs. She was sitting on 7 eggs (6 standards and a banty) but somehow the banty egg has vanish. Kaput! Completely gone. I have no idea what happened to it. She's been hunkered down over the lot of them for days. The nest is a milk crate and the eggs are about halfway down. No egg in the coop, no egg in the run, no egg in the nest. I have no idea what happened to the little sucker. I guess mama broody didn't want to deal with a banty and made it vanish.

Good luck on finding the culprit! I'm crossing my fingers for an egg moving hen and NOT a rat. Ugg!