I was outside working in the shop today and my DW called me to see something, lo and behold she had found a secret nest in the flower bed alongside the barn.
There were 19 eggs in there, no telling how long but the upshot was some time ago I had been hearing the eggsong in the vicinity of the back porch area. Never could find the hen or the eggs laying around but we had been getting only two or three eggs in the coop.
Ended up confining them to the coop for a few weeks, still letting them out for a couple of hours in the evening but we began getting more eggs almost immediately.
So...we had a couple three or four hens sneaking around in a secret nest.....you just never know.....the nest was behind a big barrel planter and against the barn wall, covered pretty well by flowers....for all we know there may be some more about.
Go figure.......
There were 19 eggs in there, no telling how long but the upshot was some time ago I had been hearing the eggsong in the vicinity of the back porch area. Never could find the hen or the eggs laying around but we had been getting only two or three eggs in the coop.
Ended up confining them to the coop for a few weeks, still letting them out for a couple of hours in the evening but we began getting more eggs almost immediately.
So...we had a couple three or four hens sneaking around in a secret nest.....you just never know.....the nest was behind a big barrel planter and against the barn wall, covered pretty well by flowers....for all we know there may be some more about.
Go figure.......