Texas

[losttexan]

It's almost as if all these fancy coops & nesting boxes are only for the humans...the ladies usually don't care, as long as they're comfy.

I agree. Mine started off using the horses' muck buckets and I'm having the hardest time trying to get them to adopt "proper" nest boxes. Some have even revolted to making a hole in a secluded corner of the flowerbeds. That'll show me!

 

[tiedyemommy]

I agree. Mine started off using the horses' muck buckets and I'm having the hardest time trying to get them to adopt "proper" nest boxes. Some have even revolted to making a hole in a secluded corner of the flowerbeds. That'll show me!

Luckily *knock on wood* no one has decided to lay under the bushes...they usually lay in one of the nesting boxes, or at least inside the coop. Yesterday, I found an egg on the ground near the entrance to their yard. I almost stepped on it. Sometimes they make me wonder. Heh!

 

[Brookshire11]

Mine still barge into the mud/laundry room to lay :/
I need to start locking them out!

 

[Joules Newton]

I located about 10 miles northwest of Weatherford (30 miles west of FW)

 

[magpiesing]

Luckily *knock on wood* no one has decided to lay under the bushes...they usually lay in one of the nesting boxes, or at least inside the coop. Yesterday, I found an egg on the ground near the entrance to their yard. I almost stepped on it. Sometimes they make me wonder. Heh!

Wonder if the actually field test them with real hens???

When we went to pick up our chickens one hen was nesting in a horse feeder (poor little bantam was sitting on 13 eggs) another was nesting in the seat of a old ladder back chair that was all that was available. They love their nests they have now...really "up-town"!

We find an egg on the coop floor occasionally. Have only found a couple in the yard but, then there aren't any bushes in their yard to hide them under. I think maybe one of the new hens that have just come into age may be leaving hers in the yard. Don't think she knows quite what to do yet.

Got the last of our green tomatoes together and going to fry them up on my new stove! Not a planned purchase however.
Think I killed the last good burner yesterday cooking jelly. Luckily it held out till I got that done. Had the stove for 13 yrs so guess we got our money out of it. Just plain old stove, nothin fancy and cheap, but made in USA. Not going to know how to act having 4 working burners!

 

[TherryChicken]

momma and 22 eggs, ducklings start hatching today or tomorrow

 

[jab2you]

Help hens are a year old no eggs!

 

[Brookshire11]

Help hens are a year old no eggs!

Ok..
Breeds?
Do the free range?
Did you buy them as chicks, hatch them, or buy them grown?

 

[RustedOak]

Excited to share that 2 out of 4 of my barred rocks started laying yesterday. I opened up the coop to clean out their roosting area and there laid these two beauties in the nesting box. Proud chickee Papa over here! lol

 

[jab2you]

The 5 I bought at TCS the older I bought grown from a friend and the younger 2 I bought as chicks from a neighbor. Breeds are RD and the other not to sure but they are Easter eggers roo is an orpington.