- Mar 30, 2011
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What would you do with this situation?
My wife and I are trying to figure out what to do with our neighbor's hen, a Jersey Giant. She has been hanging around our run and coop for the past 2 weeks since his rooster died from a predator and at one time there was another hen. She basically stays on our property, free ranges and sleeps in one our trees. Our neighbor is a mess, he can't stay off the pills.
While out cleaning up some debris the other night I found her nesting area with 3 eggs under some that had I piled up over time. Yesterday we where watching the area to see if she would return to it, sure enough she did and laid another egg.
This has left us scratching our heads with what to do!!! One thing we have decided not to do, is introduce her to our small flock of 4, 1 rooster and 3 pullets that are 13 weeks old. She, I think is probably close to 1 1/2 - 2 years old. I was thinking about building a small A-frame nesting box, but my concern are the eggs. They looked healthy, as does she, and are not thin shelled. I did dispose of the ones that were there, due to that they were in the sun after the cleaning up.
If I'm to build this a-frame, how would I get her to use it? Treats? How about a fake egg?
Please let us know how you would go about it?
BTW, thanks for all the info on this site, it has helped tremendously since day one when my wife said she wanted some chickens. We now have a BR rooster and 3 pullets that are a BR, BA, and an EE.
My wife and I are trying to figure out what to do with our neighbor's hen, a Jersey Giant. She has been hanging around our run and coop for the past 2 weeks since his rooster died from a predator and at one time there was another hen. She basically stays on our property, free ranges and sleeps in one our trees. Our neighbor is a mess, he can't stay off the pills.
While out cleaning up some debris the other night I found her nesting area with 3 eggs under some that had I piled up over time. Yesterday we where watching the area to see if she would return to it, sure enough she did and laid another egg.
This has left us scratching our heads with what to do!!! One thing we have decided not to do, is introduce her to our small flock of 4, 1 rooster and 3 pullets that are 13 weeks old. She, I think is probably close to 1 1/2 - 2 years old. I was thinking about building a small A-frame nesting box, but my concern are the eggs. They looked healthy, as does she, and are not thin shelled. I did dispose of the ones that were there, due to that they were in the sun after the cleaning up.
If I'm to build this a-frame, how would I get her to use it? Treats? How about a fake egg?
Please let us know how you would go about it?
BTW, thanks for all the info on this site, it has helped tremendously since day one when my wife said she wanted some chickens. We now have a BR rooster and 3 pullets that are a BR, BA, and an EE.
