The Case of the Mysteriously Vanishing Eggs...

[ponyup]

Snakes are okay when I have been properly introduced to them and know their names. The rouge ones who come into my yard uninvited to feast on my fowl, not so much! I have peacocks now who are supposed to keep them away for me.

 

[J's Orpingtons]

Hi, do you have a coop that you keep them in? or do you have a shed/barn where you keep them... I have a stable where I keep mine and I always take down a torch to check for eggs becasue sometimes they lay up on the bales and bury their eggs

So maybe she's just been hiding/burring her eggs ???

 

[Silkie Mummy]

Thanks for replying everyone! To clear up a few things: Fiona and my three other chickens roam in the back yard, which is not overly big (nor overly small). They have a small hen house/coop with a couple of separate nesting boxes. There is not room enough for eggs to go missing or for sneaky snakes to be hiding. Besides, I live in Australia, the snakes here would go for the main course (the chickens!) I think, not for the eggs. None of the other chickens' eggs go missing, that's what makes it all so mysterious. I have also checked under bushes etc., but there are no secret stashes hidden anywhere. Yet Fiona's eggs continue to vanish. Until aboout a week or two ago she was a great layer, but something happened. The mystery continues...

 

[Silkie Mummy]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that they have plenty of water: two water dishes of their own and two bird baths. There's enough water to give them webbed feet!

 

[sourland]

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LOL they are such ungrateful creatures!

Yeah I would look for them to be buried but sometimes there isnt really anything left of the egg. Is she getting enough water? I see mine do that if one of them knocked over the waterer and dont have water.

Also I have a hen who moves other hens eggs... apparently hers are the best and she wants nothing to do with the other eggs.

Well, it's all about being smarter than they are.