What's the weirdest place your chickens have nested?

[Illia]

Smack in the middle of the pasture, out in the most open, shrubless/treeless spot there is.



Honestly with the egg's dark reddish color I first thought it was a clay colored rock or something.

 

[silky_3699]

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haha! thats funny. its a wonder some other animal didn't get to it first!

 

[Illia]

The last animal to actually wander the pasture besides a chicken was a cat. . .


Our pasture is actually pretty pest/predator free.

 

[nuchickontheblock]

One girl excavated under a stone wall, crawled in and laid 9 eggs.

 

[silky_3699]

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thats pretty good!

 

[Fierlin1182]

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Underground!

That's funny. Must've been hot out there or something.

 

[Judy]

One made a nest about 3' from the road, in tall weeds, just behind the mailboxes; it had about 20 eggs when I found her. We have an ancient metal fireplace insert in the shop which is used to burn wood to make a little heat in there in the winter. A couple weeks ago we found about a dozen eggs in there (no chicken.) They were black with soot as well as old oil. One pullet kept hunting for a place to nest nest in the shop. She turned over an open tray of socket wrenches and a made couple other messes, so I moved a nest box to one corner of the shop that she'd been checking out. Problem solved -- one little pullet egg a day in there since.

 

[silky_3699]

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its a wonder no one going by on the road found the eggs and took them!

 

[Fierlin1182]

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That's amazing. You got any photos? Would've been so cute to see!

 

[ChickenGirl165]

At the back of my backyard where there are a load of bushes huddled in a corner next to the fence. It always rains an because there is a problem with the back of my backyard, the ground is soaking wet and you can hear and feel the mud squelching underneath your feet. Such a hassle. I'm so happy now because suddenly one morning when we let it out to lay, after a few minutes of wandering around, it came back into the run and layed inside the nesting box where we wanted it to lay! Such a JOY!