Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

[Isaac 0]

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

No she's too lazy raise ducklings.

 

[WVduckchick]

My husband was fishing a small lake yesterday and noticed this goose nestled into the top of this log. They were looking at the turtles sunning themselves, and didn’t even notice the goose at first. He said she wouldn’t leave even as the boat floated toward her, she just kept honking. I’d say she has a nest there.

 

[SueT]

I think this thread caused me to dream I found a lot of eggs hidden in a lovely glass gazebo (we do not have a gazebo of any kind) .......I kept pulling out eggs which were kind of buried in soft hay. My hens do free range, and perhaps I should look around. What they consider a gazebo, may not be a gazebo to me.

well almost a month later, I found their 'gazebo' from my dream, in a dirty corner behind junk in a shed. Actually my little bantam hen alerted me to it, she was above it on a shelf looking down and calling out the egg song. They are not bantam eggs tho. Since there were only 3 eggs, I'm still hunting for other nests. Meanwhile, nobody's going to be allowed to free range for a while...

 

[HeartsDelight]

 

[SueT]

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This is a great photo!
Did you know there's a BYC meme contest? You could write a funny caption on this and enter it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/official-byc-mini-contest-make-a-meme.1308291/

 

[jsr5]

gotta love her choice of locations. safety orange for the little ones outa sight and a nifty logo to boot.

 

[HeartsDelight]

 

[MochaDuck]

My birds aren't free range, but one likes to escape and used to lay eggs in the dog box of the dog who tries to catch her.
But I don't have pictures, unfortunately.

 

[Jrzebra]

I think I may have a winner here!!

Walked out the back door last weekend & found this egg balancing on a rung of a ladder we have stored between the house & garage. And the egg isn't even on one of the wide steps, but on one of the skinny braces in back! Our naughty Leghorn hens routinely escape from the chicken yard (why can't they just be good chickens, like the Wyandottes & Orphingtons??). This is one of their favorite perches. One started laying her eggs on a box below the ladder, (2nd photo below), so when our youngest hen started laying, I guess she figured this was close enough- as good a place as any!

 

[SueT]