Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

[ChemicalchiCkns]

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

You Know, as well as I do, what it really came from...

 

[ChemicalchiCkns]

Roosters think they are telling a hen where to lay an egg, the hens already know what to do.

Is that really what they are doing? We all thought we knew the Egg Noise was about the Egg...

 

[Cryss]

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.

You win, pictures or not.

 

[Feathyr]

I have a turkey hen who routinely lays eggs in my dad's desk chair in the garage.

First time I saw it, I accused him of laying eggs.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

following.... I don't have any unusal stories yet. Well, one, but its not terribly unusual, and I have no pics.
When my araucana started laying last year I found one in the aluminum trash can I keep their feed. Somebody hadn't put the lid back on after feeding the chickens and there was her egg. She must have been looking for privacy.
Now she lays in the nest box I have hanging up high where my big girls can't get. I put it up because my silver hamburg didn't like to lay where everybody else was laying either.

 

[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.

 

[MROO]

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.

Hmmm ... a glass gazebo ... maybe "The Great Chicken" is telling you that your hens are hiding their eggs in plain sight?

 

[MountainWoman73]

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.

 

[MountainWoman73]

Also... this is Elvis. She spent a week indoors after being injured by a predator. I had her sleeping on newspapers in the bathtub. When she laid an egg in the bathroom sink, I decided she was well enough to go back outside!

 

[bobbi-j]

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.