This chicken is not dead

[janiedoe]

I made a thread about hens moving eggs around with a couple of examples.
Thread 'Do your hens relocate their eggs?'
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/do-your-hens-relocate-their-eggs.1663457/

That video is fabulous and amazing! Chickens are full of surprises.

 

[Ponypoor]

I don’t have a picture of this either but my two old hens were taking a dust bath by the barn the other day, in a very open space. Suddenly a HUGE bird started circling them. They ran toward the barn but I didn’t think it was safe enough so I shooed them into the trees. Then I realized it was a vulture. He thought those two idiots were dead.

Have a couple of breeding pairs of turkey vultures next door and I am sure those birds enjoy swooping in over the chooks just to watch them scatter

 

[Ponypoor]

Do y'all ever wonder how chickens manage to move eggs from one box to another. I know they do. Its happened more than once around here when I've had marked eggs with broody hens.
Today I have a bantam hen sitting on a rock. Its a nice size rock too. I have no idea where it came from, or how she got it into the coop and then into a nest box thats about 6" off the floor.
It isn't even a smooth rock.

I haven’t had anyone try to move eggs, but lots of other gifting eggs to my broodies. Brats!