Our Mixed Flock Journey!

[drstratton]

Rehoming is not an option. All the hens that do it are favourites among my non Campines. I don't even mind the lack of eggs. I do mind mucky nesting boxes & silly hens. Wrold took a swipe @ me yesterday. That's all I need. @ this rate all my nesting boxes will be occupied by broodies.

Oh no, which one is Wrold? I don't like mucky nesting boxes either! One of my Silkie roosters continues to sleep in them and he makes a horrid mess! He will be gone soon!

 

[Flockincrazy]

I have to show you my flock they are crazy funny and there is a lot of them I think I have them all

 

[Ribh]

Oh no, which one is Wrold? I don't like mucky nesting boxes either! One of my Silkie roosters continues to sleep in them and he makes a horrid mess! He will be gone soon!

Wrold is one of my tiny Wyandotte bantams.
All the girls from my last buy got Celtic names.
The Campines are Irish Queens: Morrigu, Aoife & Medh.
The Aracaunas are Scots: Beatha & Mhari.
The bantams got Pictish names as a sort of in archaeological/mythological joke:
Alpia & Wrold.
This is Wrold.

 

[Flockincrazy]

Oh no, which one is Wrold? I don't like mucky nesting boxes either! One of my Silkie roosters continues to sleep in them and he makes a horrid mess! He will be gone soon!

Cover your nest boxes at night if you dont want them in there

 

[Ribh]

Cover your nest boxes at night if you dont want them in there

I have tried that but some of my girls are very early layers & eggs dropped in the general coop poop are not fun. I usually just put them up on a roost when I do my evening check. I had a couple of bigger girls who had a really heavy moult this winter & couldn't manage the roosts so chose nesting boxes instead. It was a pain but @ least I knew they were warm & comfortable & as soon as they feathered out again they went back to roosting as normal.

 

[Flockincrazy]

I have tried that but some of my girls are very early layers & eggs dropped in the general coop poop are not fun. I usually just put them up on a roost when I do my evening check. I had a couple of bigger girls who had a really heavy moult this winter & couldn't manage the roosts so chose nesting boxes instead. It was a pain but @ least I knew they were warm & comfortable & as soon as they feathered out again they went back to roosting as normal.

Gotcha ya those are not fun I had a hen that would never lay in the nestboxes so I totally understand

 

[Ribh]

Gotcha ya those are not fun I had a hen that would never lay in the nestboxes so I totally understand

I very occasionally get random eggs dropped in the coop or run ~ usually a beginning layer who hasn't quite got things worked out yet~ so I will take all sorts of nesting box antics over running the gauntlet after a stray egg.

 

[cavemanrich]

I can't wait to see what you get next week! Have you told your wife yet?

She knows about the Serama, BUT,, not about the Mystery Chicken yet.
It will be something like this,,,, "HONEY,,, I'M HOME"

I wonder why she is so determined!?

Short answer,,,,,, HOUDINI

 

[Flockincrazy]

I very occasionally get random eggs dropped in the coop or run ~ usually a beginning layer who hasn't quite got things worked out yet~ so I will take all sorts of nesting box antics over running the gauntlet after a stray egg.

She always layed in the run in the same spot but never in the nestboxes

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Well, I went out to put up more fencing even though I thought my hen was staying in the pen! As I'm working on the fence, I hear a little rustling and low and behold there she is sitting on the other side of her fence on 8 eggs and I saw her picking at one of the eggs, I think she ate it... Anyway, my husband climbed over a shorter section of the fence and caught her, she is now in chicken jail until I can get the rest of the larger fence gaps blocked off! When I first walked up to the pen she was surrounded by a good portion of the flock commiserating with her... If the new fencing doesn't keep her contained...she's on her own!

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Maybe if I get up higher I can slip out somewhere after all I'm the Houdini of chickens...
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That picture of her in her little prison is hysterical. Look at her expression!