Weird places to lay eggs...

[shortgrass]

I have a hen that follows me everywhere, always right ony heels no matter where I go... We have an old camper in the garden, kindof an oasis when it's hot etc.... This hen had been bugging me to let her in... I mean, BUGGING me; flying up to the windows, flying to the top, trying to clsw through the screen door....

I was curious, so I went ahead and let her in....

She immediateky made herself comfy....and an hour later, left me a gift lol...

Of course, now she wants in all the time, so I have to physically carry her back to the coop when she gets antsy and tries to get in... I started a bad habit I now get to break lol... But it made me wonder....


Where is the weirdest place your hens have decided they need to lay?

 

[MaLoTu]

I don't know if anywhere else could really top that!

Mine lay eggs on the top of the five gallon bucket that was turned into their waterer.

 

[shortgrass]

I don't know if anywhere else could really top that!

Mine lay eggs on the top of the five gallon bucket that was turned into their waterer.

Lol that's some amazing concentration being able to balance AND lay an egg

 

[Lvlylrn]

My new chicken (4-1/2 months old) started laying eggs on a cozy chair with 3 pillows on our patio. I need to take a picture. We do have 3 nesting boxes in the coop, but I guess they aren’t as comfy...

 

[112Days]

One of my Ameraucanas lays wherever she can find a place to stand - found my GLW slurping up yolk from a nest box several weeks back, and recently she got scared and didn't even sit down on the roost to pop out a snake egg (that broke on impact with the coop floor), which was immediately followed by clumps of pigmented calcium. She's a weird layer in general, but man, that snake egg made me laugh!

 

[Ra_]

My Barred Rock free range birds just changed their spot for the fifth time. Took me a few days to find it this time. The runoff from their manure has caused wild Blackberry bushes that normally only grow 2 feet tall to grow up to 7 feet and then all fall over and continue growing. I had to carve a path through the stickers to get to the eggs once I found them.
They're still using the spot, for now.

 

[Lvlylrn]

Maybe dumb question - What does it mean to pop out a snake egg?

One of my Ameraucanas lays wherever she can find a place to stand - found my GLW slurping up yolk from a nest box several weeks back, and recently she got scared and didn't even sit down on the roost to pop out a snake egg (that broke on impact with the coop floor), which was immediately followed by clumps of pigmented calcium. She's a weird layer in general, but man, that snake egg made me laugh!