reddpepper86
Songster
Hi everyone!
So earlier this week my 21 week old RSL has been squatting. Her comb/wattles have become much more red and her pelvic bones are about 2½ finger widths apart.
I put a fake egg in one of their nesting boxes and she has been "rearranging" I guess you could say, ever since. Moving the egg around, kicking around bedding etc.
Then this morning I went out and I thought one of my kids had taken the egg out because it was gone! On closer inspection though, I found it buried under bedding. I put it back on top of the bedding and Goldie (the RSL) got miffed at me, hopped up into the nesting box i had placed the egg in while "yelling" at me and started "rearranging" things again - fake egg included.
So what's up? Why is she now burying it? Should I just leave the egg alone?
Also, is it normal for chickens to get much louder the closer they are to laying eggs? Because boy oh boy, can she belt it out.
So earlier this week my 21 week old RSL has been squatting. Her comb/wattles have become much more red and her pelvic bones are about 2½ finger widths apart.
I put a fake egg in one of their nesting boxes and she has been "rearranging" I guess you could say, ever since. Moving the egg around, kicking around bedding etc.
Then this morning I went out and I thought one of my kids had taken the egg out because it was gone! On closer inspection though, I found it buried under bedding. I put it back on top of the bedding and Goldie (the RSL) got miffed at me, hopped up into the nesting box i had placed the egg in while "yelling" at me and started "rearranging" things again - fake egg included.
So what's up? Why is she now burying it? Should I just leave the egg alone?
Also, is it normal for chickens to get much louder the closer they are to laying eggs? Because boy oh boy, can she belt it out.