Strangest/Funniest Places Your Free Range Hens Lay

[HeartsDelight]

She's not the least bit obsessed about carrying things in her mouth... lolView attachment 1733130
She doesn't smile, either....
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And she's NEVER greedy with her sister!
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What a cutie!! <3

 

[MontanaChickDoc]

Looks like Kessel23 is correct! Here is the answer from McMurray:

Hi Alba,

Our Free Rare Chicks come from a Straight Run or Unsexed bins of ours. Thank you and have a great day!

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Sincerely,

Murray McMurray Hatchery

So. I stand corrected

 

[bobbi-j]

Awwwwww!!! "I am a retriever. I must retrieve. This is my gift to you. And also this. You're welcome."

Yes! Unless you wanted him to play fetch. He'd bring back the stick, ball, or whatever you threw twice. The third time he'd look at you like, "Seriously? If you really wanted that thing, you'd quit throwing it!" And, game over.

 

[TheAmundsons]

@bobbi-j our BR lays eggs that look pink when they have the bloom on them, but when washed, they are light brown/slightly pinkish! They look exactly like the pink one in your picture!

 

[Col1948]

Pink eggs! Isn't there a thread here somewhere about putting lipstick around the vent?

 

[MROO]

Pink eggs! Isn't there a thread here somewhere about putting lipstick around the vent?

Gives a whole new twist to the term "Pucker Up," now, doesn't it!!

 

[bobbi-j]

Gives a whole new twist to the term "Pucker Up," now, doesn't it!!

 

[Chickenlover720]

We have a little cat house on our porch for our CAT to sleep in but the chickens have taken it over like they do everything else! Guess it's not that weird but I find it funny.
Here's Dog-chicken (she got the name Dog-chicken because she hangs around the dogs trying to steal any food lol) trying to get her turn after Fancy is done.

 

[petspoiler]

We have a little cat house on our porch for our CAT to sleep in but the chickens have taken it over like they do everything else! Guess it's not that weird but I find it funny.
Here's Dog-chicken (she got the name Dog-chicken because she hangs around the dogs trying to steal any food lol) trying to get her turn after Fancy is done.
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It looks really cozy!

 

[Eilsel]

Shortly after my hens started laying, I decided I wanted to build a larger nest box for when my pullets started. After changing out boxes, I put the old one in one of our sheds "just in case" I needed it later. A while later I noticed fewer eggs in the coop, and my husband found the culprit, a few had found the rickety old nest box (sitting on a weed sprayer) in the shed and laid there!

I started keeping them in the run for most of the day so they would remember where to lay and they have mostly figured it out. I did still have another go rogue on me once. One night I went to lock the hens up and one was missing! I looked for quite a while and then said a little prayer and locked them up. Later that evening I went out to find her grumpily waiting to be let back in.

The next day I solved the mystery! She had made her way into my horses' hay bale net and couldn't always find her way out very quickly. What was she doing in there, you ask...?

Eggs were removed and the natural destruction of the hay bale by the horses meant the hens decided the nest box is the best place to lay.