Post by Shirls on Mar 7, 2018 10:19:33 GMT
Oh we had fun and games the other day in the hen house! We have 6 hens and 2 nest boxes, but at the moment only 3 hens lay. Apparently, one only needs 2 nest boxes per 6 hens, so someone has said!
Hettie was in the LH nest box, Aurelia was walking about clucking (her I'm going to lay noise) and Mollie was also walking about frustratingly trying to get into the LH nest box. Dusty was also whining, so I thought she wanted to lay too. It was therefore slightly noisy and it was early Sunday morning, when all the neighbours were having a lie in (as far as Iknow of course).
Right, so Aurelis goes into RH nest box, she has squatters rights to this box, it's hers and nobody else goes in it. Hettie is still trying to lay, and Mollie got fed up with waiting so she goes in with Hettie and sits literally on top of her. They do this even when outside in the sun sometimes. So funny to see.
After a while (Dusty still whining btw) Hettie got fed up and came out leaving LH nest box available soley to Mollie.
After all this shenanigans, we only got two eggs that day, one was Aurelia and one was Mollie - Hettie gave up altogether. It's such fun keeping chickens!
Hettie was in the LH nest box, Aurelia was walking about clucking (her I'm going to lay noise) and Mollie was also walking about frustratingly trying to get into the LH nest box. Dusty was also whining, so I thought she wanted to lay too. It was therefore slightly noisy and it was early Sunday morning, when all the neighbours were having a lie in (as far as Iknow of course).
Right, so Aurelis goes into RH nest box, she has squatters rights to this box, it's hers and nobody else goes in it. Hettie is still trying to lay, and Mollie got fed up with waiting so she goes in with Hettie and sits literally on top of her. They do this even when outside in the sun sometimes. So funny to see.
After a while (Dusty still whining btw) Hettie got fed up and came out leaving LH nest box available soley to Mollie.
After all this shenanigans, we only got two eggs that day, one was Aurelia and one was Mollie - Hettie gave up altogether. It's such fun keeping chickens!
I bet it's great just being able to watch them go about their day 
