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where are all these eggs coming from?!

Discussion in 'Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying' started by frankenchick, Sep 10, 2009.

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  1. Sep 10, 2009 #1
    frankenchick

    frankenchick Chillin' With My Peeps

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    First, it was the golf balls thrown out of the nest boxes.

    Now, I have eggs showing up on the floor of the coop. I don't have any pullets getting ready to lay (14 w/0). The eggs are fine, not damaged as if they'd fallen from the boxes. And they're sort of grouped around the door of the kennel with the two orphans in it.

    Why are they doing this?! [​IMG]

    PS Barbie has hidden two eggs behind the kennel in the corner. She sits on them for a while each day.
     
  3. Sep 10, 2009 #2
    Happy Chooks

    Happy Chooks Moderator Staff Member

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    Maybe they're working on their golf swing. [​IMG]

    Maybe someone decided they like the floor better? I have seen one of my girls try to steal an egg from the next box over to put under her. Maybe this is the case and whoops, down it went?
     
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  5. Sep 12, 2009 #3
    frankenchick

    frankenchick Chillin' With My Peeps

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    I collected 6 eggs from the floor yesterday. [​IMG]

    This is kind of aggravating.
     
  7. Sep 12, 2009 #4
    Rocky Top Chick

    Rocky Top Chick Chillin' With My Peeps

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    I have a Lakenvelder and she lays right inside the poop door. All thirteen others lay in the boxes. I guess she likes a view instead of privacy when she lays [​IMG]
     
  9. Sep 12, 2009 #5
    PortageGirl

    PortageGirl Chillin' With My Peeps

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    Is there at least a low board across the bottom of the nest boxes to keep bedding and eggs in the box? If so, maybe it could be a little higher, but maybe she's just laying them on the floor, and once the others see her eggs, they add to the clutch like hens often do, which is of course why the golf ball trick often works to get em to lay in nest boxes.
     

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