Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

[ArianDolympia]

I bred a pink-y/purple egg layerView attachment 1728638 with a dark green egg gene rooster and got the grey egg below.View attachment 1728631

OMG!!! I would love to have eggs like that !

 

[ArianDolympia]

I used to have a hen lay in one of my horses troughs. Never took a picture before she died sadly.

Oh man! I'm sorry to hear that!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Roosters think they are telling a hen where to lay an egg, the hens already know what to do. It is fun to watch. Rooster fluffing his butt around a nest box... "so this is what it feels like." Kind like when a guy walks up to a short lady and gets down to her height... "so this is what it is like at your level, huh?" and then the guy get a swat on the shoulders.

 

[HeartsDelight]

Well, since I didn't have time to react to take a picture, my black hen totally did not lay a random egg in the middle of my yard. And I totally did not discover it, because my pit bull totally didn't pick it up and bring it to me. There was no look on her face that suggested she was thinking, "Here, I found this, Momma..." I was totally not amazed that her mouth was soft enough to pick up and carry that egg without breaking it.
That vicious pibble is totally not an angel...
'Cause no pictures, didn't happen.

I'll believe you if you post pictures of the pibbieface!

 

[bobbi-j]

OhMaGosh! The Christmas wreaths!
I feel a dangerous inspiration coming on ... Cluckmas Carols! I apologize ahead of time to the writers of "Deck the Halls!"

Deck the halls with eggs so jolly.
Fa-la-la-la-laaa, La-la-la-la,
Ribbons, red are such sweet folly.
Fa-la-la-la-laaa, La-la-la-la,
Snub we now those plain next boxes
Fa-la-la, La-la-la, La-la-laaaa,
Trimmings hide us from the foxes,
Fa-la-la-la-laaa, La-la-la-CLUCK!

Oh dear ... This could be habit-forming ...

That was great! (And is now stuck in my head...)

 

[LulaBell]

It is a pinkish egg. I don't know who laid it. In my flock I have 2 Easter Eggers (one lays green, the other blue), 2 Buff Orpingtons, a Black Australorp, a Welsummer, a Black Star, 3 Barred Rocks and 5 Red Ranger hens (and a rooster, but I'm pretty sure he's not laying it). I know the EE, Welsummer, BR, BO and BA eggs. The RRs seem to lay various shades of brown.

I'm betting it is the Australorp. I have an older one who lays me a pick egg from time to time!

https://www.fresheggsdaily.com/2012/02/rainbow-of-egg-colors.html

 

[bobbi-j]

I'm betting it is the Australorp. I have an older one who lays me a pick egg from time to time!

https://www.fresheggsdaily.com/2012/02/rainbow-of-egg-colors.html

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I think you’re right.

 

[gimmie birdies]

a black langshan chicken will lay a pink egg, they are known for pink.- Well and purple-pink.

 

[apryl29]

This little nest isn't in the coop, it's in an small offshoot of the coop that I built to keep the snow from blowing into the pop door. To get to it I have to crawl on the floor under a poop board that's 2' off the floor and lay on the poopy straw & shove my arm & head through the pop door. They also like to lay eggs under the that poop board.

Someone dropped an egg in the run a few weeks ago.. not really a big deal, except that run in completely inaccessible unless I remove the tarps I put up for a wind break, and remove the screws holding a 2x4 in place that holds down the wire for the run.. I couldn't even reach the egg w/ a stick to break it. It eventually froze and cracked & they ate it.

 

[path.otto]

Mine isn't so much about where the hens would lay as how one would let me know when she wanted to lay.

I have an Ameraucauna that adopted us when our neighbor's flocks were killed off by various predators and they got a dog that did not like chickens. My first attempt at flock introduction was a failure so she slept in a crate in our garage and free ranged during the day. She was very predator savvy, hence her long life even though she was basically ignored by her previous owners. Every other day or so she would wait outside our garage door so she could go into her crate and lay her egg. If I didn't notice her fast enough she would let me know she was there. She'd go in, lay her egg, and go out for the rest of the day until she returned at dusk to sleep.

Whoever coined the term "dumb cluck" really didn't know chickens very well.