What is this chicken thinking?

[theoldchick]

I wish that were the case with a couple of mine...instead they keep pooping them out overnight while on the roost and I find them the next morning on the floor, usually broken...however, a couple must have fallen in a thicker layer of sand and had harder shells because they were just pristine and unbroken. Still, I wish they'd get their laying on schedule with the rest of the girls. I hate seeing a perfectly good egg wasted like that.

You'll have to put a net under the roost after the girls to bed for the night.

 

[Gargoyle]

I wish that were the case with a couple of mine...instead they keep pooping them out overnight while on the roost and I find them the next morning on the floor, usually broken...however, a couple must have fallen in a thicker layer of sand and had harder shells because they were just pristine and unbroken. Still, I wish they'd get their laying on schedule with the rest of the girls. I hate seeing a perfectly good egg wasted like that.

I have one who's doing that. Then, during the day, she doesn't realize she laid at night, and she goes and sits on the nest for an hour or two.

 

[RedneckGurl]

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Honestly, don't think I haven't considered something like that after finding the fourth one in a week. I purposefully piled up the sand higher under the roosts in an attempt to give them a softer landing. I may have to put the engineer hubby on that job - let him come up with something clever.

 

[MEMama3]

Honestly, don't think I haven't considered something like that after finding the fourth one in a week.  I purposefully piled up the sand higher under the roosts in an attempt to give them a softer landing.  I may have to put the engineer hubby on that job - let him come up with something clever.

I saw a super cute "poop hammock" idea that might work for catching eggs. They just make a hammock out of heavy weight canvas and hung it under the roost.

 

[RedneckGurl]

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I'd definitely want something that the poop, or at least the majority of the poop, would fall right through...canvas sounds so messy! I never knew so few chickens could poop so much overnight...wow!

 

[fishnet1971]

I know this is off thread, but doesnt this little girl have the most BEAUTIFUL face you have ever seen on a chicken????? sorry for your loss.

 

[fishnet1971]

I can't remember if I posted this already or not... Victoria and my DH Bob.

 

[LibRat]

Ummmm.... Excuse me? I believe I was here first.

 

[TwoCrows]

I know this is off thread, but doesnt this little girl have the most BEAUTIFUL face you have ever seen on a chicken????? sorry for your loss.

I agree...she looks absolutely darling! So sorry for your loss.

 

[LibRat]

oops that post was for this picture lol