Do you want to know how crazy our chickens are?
Well here is the best example. DH built them a coop (well more just a box that could be closed) to sleep in when they were younger. For the first week after we got it completed we put them in the coop every night and locked them up. We went on vacation about a week after we built the coop and since their coop is in an enclosed, covered run we just decided to let them go in the coop on there on if they were going to use it. Well those birds roost on top of the coop. Now the hens have decided that the coop is the perfect giant nest to lay in. DH noticed one of the RIRs kept going in there cackling and pacing. So he added the rest of the pine bedding we had into it. We went out there later and there was a little nest made in the pine needles and a perfect brown egg in it. The EE hen who layed yesterday in the nest box also decided to use that nest. I guess they have decided that is a better nest than the nest boxes we have.
I guess we will see if they all decided to lay in there or if some of them use the actual nest boxes. We are up to 2 of 6 hens laying now!
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