Where is the strangest place your free range chicken has laid an egg?

[Nyhillbillies]

This is the top of the rear entrance to the old coop. We were missing a hen in the evening, had no idea where she was roosting. Never thought to look IN THE BACK! Days later, we discovered her there one early morning, plus several eggs!

 

[Larafamilychickens]

I forgot to mention she has been mia for a week now off and on. I don't know what she is doing but she is determined to stay there. I think she's a bit upset I found her. Not quite sure why the single egg is out from under her next to the fence line. Her feathers are all spread out. Does that mean they are getting ready to hatch?

I’m really a first time chicken owner, but I’m enjoying these stories! From what I read on this site a week might be too soon to hatch, but it could be that the egg was getting too warm, so she took a break, or maybe she is just practicing? Please let us know if it does hatch!!!!

 

[Larafamilychickens]

@raingarden , I see your tree and raise you the rafters of a shop building. When she was done, she just flew down 15 feet to the cement floor and called. We caught .... most of them. It was not a great day.

Except for that, she was an exceptional mother. The big barn cat got a little too close and she literally rode him across the yard.

@BYC Project Manager can this be an official site wide contest? These are hilarious!!

 

[BYC Project Manager]

@BYC Project Manager can this be an official site wide contest? These are hilarious!!

They're hilarious indeed.

 

[Larafamilychickens]

Gertrude is really feeling like part of the family, she laid an egg in the stroller!

She is so sweet, she let my middle sun sit beside her and pet her, he gave her hay to make her “comfy”