Why is she doing this?

Maybe it's too dark for her to see her way to the nests? I'm only guessing...

From the very beginning, mine have been doing very well as far as laying in the nests, then yesterday I found one in the middle of the run! What's up with that???

 

Seems maybe her "internal clock" is off with the shortening days! LOL!! Hopefully she'll get it worked out!

 

I had a couple that started laying about 4:30 a.m. and were laying out of the nests. I left on a light and no eggs. Left the light off a couple of nights and two days later when I went in one had an egg out of the boxes and two others went running for the nest boxes. I decided to leave the light on so they can see the boxes and my early layers have been in the boxes since.

 

I have one that done the same thing.. I was putting my chickens up and they were all on the roost I was doing a head count and "plop" an egg fell from a chicken that was sitting on the roost and and hit the floor.. all the other chickens jumped off the roost and flew over to start eating it.. I grabbed the shell hoping they wouldnt recognize it.. and it was a soft shelled egg.. my layers are a year old and thats the first soft shelled egg I have ever seen from them.. Still ya have to wonder why they drop it off from the roost... Maybe she didnt feel it coming and couldnt get on the nest in time??

 

I occasionaly find an egg dropped from the roost as well.

 

I had this happen with a few hens in our first flock years ago. They do eventually work it out.