My hen/pullet has been laying an egg a day-every day-since May/June- and has always used her nest box. When another pullet first used "her" box, she threw such a fit-and clucked/bawked/carried on so loudly- you could hear her across the street. She kept it up for about thirty minutes.
That said, she continued to lay in her nest box anyhow. I was collecting two eggs a day from that box. I added another box, and I would get either two in that box, or one in each. For the past week, my original layer has started laying on the coop floor-right by the door that I use.
Now, she has progressively started laying earlier and earlier. She started out laying between nine and nine thirty and gradually it has now become 5:30/ 6:00 a.m. Until today.
Today, she came out of the coop and frantically began searching for 'something'. Squeezing herself in tight areas, running frantically around- until I picked her up and cuddled her and put her into her original nest box with some new hay.
She laid her egg approximately ten minutes later. In the nest box.
Whats going on with her?
That said, she continued to lay in her nest box anyhow. I was collecting two eggs a day from that box. I added another box, and I would get either two in that box, or one in each. For the past week, my original layer has started laying on the coop floor-right by the door that I use.
Now, she has progressively started laying earlier and earlier. She started out laying between nine and nine thirty and gradually it has now become 5:30/ 6:00 a.m. Until today.
Today, she came out of the coop and frantically began searching for 'something'. Squeezing herself in tight areas, running frantically around- until I picked her up and cuddled her and put her into her original nest box with some new hay.
She laid her egg approximately ten minutes later. In the nest box.
Whats going on with her?
