Well, one of the new hens is laying. Problem is....

[pupsicle]

She's laying in a pile of dirty towels on the floor of my next-door neighbors' laundry room.

They don't keep the exterior door closed. She somehow managed to jump the 6-foot fence (three times), nest in the towels, and go home again.

They were very nice about it, if a little perplexed at the discovery....

 

[WriterofWords]

I have a neighbor's big white hen who comes for breakfast with her friends then goes home. She lives about 8 acres away!

 

[congdon476]

Seriously? If I were them I'd keep the eggs and say nothing!

 

[pupsicle]

It's a house filled with 5 college-aged boys. They aren't really smart enough to realize that, hey, it's free eggs. Mostly they were just really, really confused.

 

[bulldog-girl]

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At least the towels were dirty. I think chicken poo washes off easily in the washer.

 

[farmergal]

heehee! chickens do the darnedest things... I'd be pretty excited to find an egg in my pile of dirty laundry! course, if I did find an egg in my dirty laundry, it would probably be because I left it in my pocket and it got squished...

 

[AngieChick]

Oh gosh, that's really funny!

 

[rizq]

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Same here! A couple weeks ago I washed all my fleece jackets and just happened to check pockets before I tossed them into the pile ... I found the previous day's egg in the pocket of one of them

At least it was intact and did not make any messes, lol.

 

[sandypaws]

... clip her wings....
and give her a nice, safe, quiet place on your property to lay them.. poor thing, NO place on your property is good enough for her kids??? wow i would be insulted..

 

[Carolina Chicken Man]

Sounds like they free range.
If you have a run, confine her until she starts laying in the nest boxes.