What’s the weirdest spot your hen(s) has laid?

[agold23]

My 24/25 week old lavender orpington named Dori and suspected ameracauna mix named Lexi started laying about 3 weeks ago.

We have 4 nest boxes in our coop and after locking them in the coop and run for 2 days when they first started, they’ve finally figured out to lay in them… or have they? Lexi is very diligent when she lays, every morning in the first nest box you’ll see one of her longer tan eggs, a shade darker than Dori’s. Dori on the other hand isnt. For a few days she was laying in the same nest box as Lexi and we’d find both their eggs in there but that’s not the case anymore! Dori likes to change it up, for a while she was laying in a garden box in on the back deck. Two days ago she laid in a flower pot in the front deck, making chicken sized holes in not one but both of the flower pots.

Today?? She laid on the little stand we have outside the back patio door, she scratched up the cheap table cloth and plopped one down!

The bones here are some bird bones we found on a trail and left them outside to dry… but I honestly think it adds to the effect.
Tomorrow? Who knows! I honestly don’t mind doing a literal egg hunt to find her eggs as I know if I do miss one it’ll go back to the earth or my dog will pick it up. If it does become an issue then the girls will be scheduled for another couple days locked back in the coop!

So what’s the weirdest place your hen has laid?

 

[BlueBaby]

How about under the rooster in the pen? I had one before that crawled under the rooster that was standing in the pen, and layed her egg there. The rooster was sure looking confused when she did that.

 

[cherrynberry]

My 24/25 week old lavender orpington named Dori and suspected ameracauna mix named Lexi started laying about 3 weeks ago.
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We have 4 nest boxes in our coop and after locking them in the coop and run for 2 days when they first started, they’ve finally figured out to lay in them… or have they? Lexi is very diligent when she lays, every morning in the first nest box you’ll see one of her longer tan eggs, a shade darker than Dori’s. Dori on the other hand isnt. For a few days she was laying in the same nest box as Lexi and we’d find both their eggs in there but that’s not the case anymore! Dori likes to change it up, for a while she was laying in a garden box in on the back deck. Two days ago she laid in a flower pot in the front deck, making chicken sized holes in not one but both of the flower pots.
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Today?? She laid on the little stand we have outside the back patio door, she scratched up the cheap table cloth and plopped one down!
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The bones here are some bird bones we found on a trail and left them outside to dry… but I honestly think it adds to the effect.
Tomorrow? Who knows! I honestly don’t mind doing a literal egg hunt to find her eggs as I know if I do miss one it’ll go back to the earth or my dog will pick it up. If it does become an issue then the girls will be scheduled for another couple days locked back in the coop!

So what’s the weirdest place your hen has laid?

Probably under the deck. That one was hard to get to. We found 15-20 eggs down there.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I found a nest in the woods and I found an egg on my work bench on my back porch before. I also found two eggs in my greenhouse in a box of dried coffee grounds

 

[GC-Raptor]

My chickens aren't so creative.
The weirdest spot was under the rear bumper of my car.

Actually I don't let my hens out to free range till an hour before sunset.
So this egg was just late in coming, she was far from the coop and chose this as a safe spot.
I was just lucky to come upon it. GC

 

[MountainWoman73]

Also, this hen (who was being kept indoors after she was injured by a hawk during a 10 degree cold snap) laid an egg in my bathroom sink.

 

[Chickencuddlz]

The weirdest spot any of my hens have ever laid was right in the middle of the chicken run!

 

[agold23]

Ding ding ding we have a winner! Definitely never heard of that and I’d love to have seen the roosters reaction!

 

[Yardmom]

I have a barrel of "junk" extra waters, boards etc in my coop. My hen started to lay in there. I was, so glad she was finally laying inside instead of a bush in the horse pasture where a fox kept taking her egg. A few weeks later she hatched chicks in the barrel.

 

[MountainWoman73]

My parents had this really dumb fluffy cat, Handsome Franklin. One of their banty hens started flying over the fence and up into the rafters of the shed where the cats liked to sleep. We found Handsome Franklin up there purring, sitting on 11 eggs.