My hens are very silly!! I build them some beautiful laying boxes which are easy for me to reach from the outside of the coop. there are three of them. A ladder is leading up to the boxes so it is easy to get there.
They are clean with some nice all-purpose chips creating a great environment for laying eggs. A faked egg in each box is suggesting to them where to lay.
BUT!!!!! What do they do?
They lay their eggs in the roosting area!! Crazy chickens!!
The good thing is that I am using the deep mulch method and use lots of pine straw which makes for a smell free coop.
The bad thing is that if I don't remove the eggs frequently, one might go up on the roost and let go of a load. That, we don't like!!
The black and white hen was waiting in line for brownie to get done. But when she saw the camera, once again, all I got is the back side of a chicken.
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