- Jan 27, 2011
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Not on the subject of the swap, but I thought you'd laugh:
Today I was installing an external nestbox in my smaller coop, to create space for more chickens. This is the small coop that the big Buff Orps fight over nesting in, even though it didn't have a nestbox (they use a corner) and it's not theirs (they have a bigger coop)... so I had to wait for 2 resident BR chickens to lay eggs today before I started, then had to fence out the Buff Orps so I could cut into the wall and install the nest box. They were circling me and complaining ever more loudly. As I was about finished, leaning into the coop (at waist height), to attach the box, one of them flew up onto my back and walked up over my head to get into the coop! I was laughing so hard I couldn't stop her! That's one desperate chicken!
Today I was installing an external nestbox in my smaller coop, to create space for more chickens. This is the small coop that the big Buff Orps fight over nesting in, even though it didn't have a nestbox (they use a corner) and it's not theirs (they have a bigger coop)... so I had to wait for 2 resident BR chickens to lay eggs today before I started, then had to fence out the Buff Orps so I could cut into the wall and install the nest box. They were circling me and complaining ever more loudly. As I was about finished, leaning into the coop (at waist height), to attach the box, one of them flew up onto my back and walked up over my head to get into the coop! I was laughing so hard I couldn't stop her! That's one desperate chicken!
