My wife called me on the phone to "be handy in case something happens" because one of our Ameracaunas was broody and wouldn't get off the nest box. I know this particular hen, and she's easily the noisiest, growliest, shriekiest chicken we've ever had. DW put me on speakerphone as she used my welding gloves to pick up and move the hen off the nest. I was laughing so hard at the sounds of the battle of wills between those two; chicken outrage vs wifely frustration. The hen would hop right back into the nest the second my wife would put her down. It went on for far too long.
I finally suggested she put the bird in the run and close the coop door, then gather the eggs in peace.
I finally suggested she put the bird in the run and close the coop door, then gather the eggs in peace.
But it sounds like no one --human or animal -- was harmed in the egg gathering.
