Outside egg

[City Farmer Jim]

I'm not sure if this is a worthy question or not ...I'm trying to understand chickens and their behavior. Here's the scenario, I take raisins out for an end of the day treat. I start passing them out while doing a head count of our 10 girls and see there's only 7 I rattle the can and call them to get treats ...nobody shows. I walk 20 steps and see they're in the coop..I shake the can and tell them to come get treats. I walk back the 20 steps .. all this took less than a minute, there in front of me was a fresh VERY warm egg ...any ideas why or is this a normal ish thing ? I will add that 2 or now possibly 3 of our littles have started laying in the last 2 ish weeks..its been brutally hot not to mention the HURRICANE last weekend.

 

[aart]

Was one of the birds in the coop actually in a nest, maybe getting ready to lay?
Not unusual for new layers to drop an egg wherever.

 

[City Farmer Jim]

The 3 in the coop didn't beat us back to the "treat zone" ...so apparently the new layers have stepped up their game as the egg was the size of what the bigs are laying. Im going to chalk it up to they were REALLY excited to get treats and it just slipped out. All the bigs have an egg song and there was none with this egg ...not sure if the littles are singing yet lol.

 

[aart]

and there was none with this egg

Their mouths were stuffed with raisins