Why, why, why? Update! Page 3!

[chickenma]

I always tell people that they don't need many nestboxes because no matter how many you have the girls are always fighting over 1 nestbox.
funny, thanks for showing my point of view

 

[MuranoFarms]

Awwwww! It's so cute!!!!

 

[speckledhen]

Well, of course. Don't you know that the hens that lay together, stay together?

 

[The Sheriff]

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Well right now they only stay together. If all the mean spirited experts on the Gender forum are right (you know who you are)

they may NEVER lay together!

 

[Southernbelle]

Once, I had a broody hen sitting on eggs in a cat litter bucket. A few nests down, I had a broody hatch out 6 chicks, who were promptly adopted by 2 more broody hens (All of these broodies were Silkies), so I had 3 hens raising 6 chicks.

I went down one night to candle eggs on the broody in the bucket and what did I find???? All THREE of the broody moms and all 6 of their chicks had moved into the nesting broody's cat litter bucket to sleep! So I had 4 Silkie hens, 6 chicks and 8 eggs in a 10x10x12" bucket.

After that, I moved the poor nesting broody's bucket to a dog crate to give her some peace! But the other 3 hens and all the chicks continued to pile into one nest until the chicks got too big.

Silkies are the funniest little birds

 

[The Sheriff]

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Well THAT was encouraging!

 

[12GAGirl]

Do they have a perch? If not that is why they are choosing the next for bedtime.

 

[fordmommy]

Love it!

 

[The Sheriff]

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They have never roosted so I left the roost out of this coop. I might add one and close off the nest boxes completely and see if they use it. They never would in their old coop and it just got in my way.

 

[Shelly_WNC]

that's funny! - I love how they all want to stay close together.

can't wait til my chicks come out of the brooder and into the coop - sounds like it's another adventure learning about chicken behavior.