Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

[Nefertarij]

One of our Brahma hens, Grain (kids named her), has taken to laying her eggs up on top of this little enclosure we hobbled together, which the kids call "cluck cluck daycare". Doesn't seem like a very smart location! Luckily, we noticed pretty quickly and so now we check there each day.

 

[bobbi-j]

One of our Brahma hens, Grain (kids named her), has taken to laying her eggs up on top of this little enclosure we hobbled together, which the kids call "cluck cluck daycare". Doesn't seem like a very smart location! Luckily, we noticed pretty quickly and so now we check there each day.

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"Here's your egg, Human..."

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

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NeST THEIFS

 

[NewBoots]

Sure, if it's a new nest. If the hen has been caught short as they say and has to lay the egg 'immediately!' a good rooster will sit on top of the hen protecting her until she's laid the egg.
The junior roosters get mating points by doing exactly this. It's one of the ways they attract hens away from the senior rooster; they do the escort duties and when the hen calls for an escort back to the group, the junior rooster is already there. After a while, especially if the hen isn't one of the senior roosters favorites, the hen will crouch for the junior rooster and you have a sub group forming.

Dang it now I want to be able to keep a rooster with our hens even more.

 

[jsr5]

We once had a banty hen who was flying up into the rafters where the cat sleeps. I finally caught her, climbed up on a ladder, and found our big dumb fluffy tomcat purring and incubating 14 eggs.

This one takes the cake.

LOVE IT!!! And he's not so dumb, really. When Mama got up off those eggs, they were nice and toasty. We see it as Kitty keeping the eggs warm. Kitty see sit the other way around ... a warm spot to curl up in. Either way, the eggs (and the cat) stay warm ... everybody wins!

a very logical explaination.

I would still have liked to have veen there when she came back to the nest and wanted the cat out. love to see how their little arrangement worked.

 

[Jrzebra]

Love this! Glad to see our whacky hens aren't the only ones! Last week as I was opening up a bag of shavings, our Brown Leghorn popped out of the bag like a jack-in-the-box, nearly giving me a heart attack. I startled her too, & I thought she'd run off somewhere. But as soon as I was done & walking away, I heard the rustling of plastic & turned to see her quickly working to unfold the top of the bag to get back in again. I picked her up, intending to put her back in her yard- when she LAID AN EGG RIGHT IN MY HAND!! (Talk about fresh!) Apparently I'd interrupted her in the act & the poor thing tried her best to wait until I left, but just couldn't hold it in any longer!

I only found this spot (a sagging part of a tarp between the 2 bikes in the garage), b/c our little white
Leghorn made a noise & gave herself up when I walked by.

 

[casportpony]

Great thread!

 

[Isaac 0]

Caught this little girl coming out of her nesting spot which happened to be a old hollowed out silver maple.

 

[MROO]

Caught this little girl coming out of her nesting spot which happened to be a old hollowed out silver maple.

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Now THAT is a COOL PICTURE!

 

[NewBoots]

Caught this little girl coming out of her nesting spot which happened to be a old hollowed out silver maple.

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Is she a good broody? And that picture is so awesome!