My youngest hen, really a 5-1/2mo pullet - has been laying for about a month now (Early Bloomer?)
The problem is she sometimes lays while roosting and unless her butt is positioned over the shavings...SPLAT!
She does lay in the nestboxes, so it seems she just doesn't wake up enough to get off the roost or ????
She's a smart cookie - knows by sight the bucket I keep scratch in & will run over to stick her head in so the Big Girls don't chase her off the stuff I scatter.
One day she was in a nestbox when she saw me coming with the bucket.
She waddled down the ramp & dropped an egg right in front of me so she could get to the good stuff
The problem is she sometimes lays while roosting and unless her butt is positioned over the shavings...SPLAT!
She does lay in the nestboxes, so it seems she just doesn't wake up enough to get off the roost or ????
She's a smart cookie - knows by sight the bucket I keep scratch in & will run over to stick her head in so the Big Girls don't chase her off the stuff I scatter.
One day she was in a nestbox when she saw me coming with the bucket.
She waddled down the ramp & dropped an egg right in front of me so she could get to the good stuff
