Meadow Feathers Coop
Chirping
- Nov 23, 2022
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I’m curious if there any particular way or safer way to relocate a hen on her eggs & nest?
I have rows of wall boxes, like a chicken condo. Typically my hens share a community box on the ground. I have a few floor boxes left from my quail.
This hen, Summer, she laid her egg in a wall box already containing 2 eggs. That’s where she laid and stayed. Next day another egg of a third color was added to her box.
I have a closed off nursery area, in my coop, for quiet brooding & raising chicks.
I need to get her in there.
Can I just get her, eggs & nest filling into the box in the nursery? She on the wall and her nest is vulnerable.
Am I okay to just grab her & nest filling to swing them around into the nursery?
I don’t want to disrupt her and cause egg abandonment.
This is only my 2nd hen to want to brood. She sat on 4 eggs, 1 is hers light brown, 2 green eggs, and a dark egg.
Thanks!!
I have rows of wall boxes, like a chicken condo. Typically my hens share a community box on the ground. I have a few floor boxes left from my quail.
This hen, Summer, she laid her egg in a wall box already containing 2 eggs. That’s where she laid and stayed. Next day another egg of a third color was added to her box.
I have a closed off nursery area, in my coop, for quiet brooding & raising chicks.
I need to get her in there.
Can I just get her, eggs & nest filling into the box in the nursery? She on the wall and her nest is vulnerable.
Am I okay to just grab her & nest filling to swing them around into the nursery?
I don’t want to disrupt her and cause egg abandonment.
This is only my 2nd hen to want to brood. She sat on 4 eggs, 1 is hers light brown, 2 green eggs, and a dark egg.
Thanks!!