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[Debb11]

Hi All

 

This is just abit of curiosity, but i was wondering where the most unusual place that your chickens like to or has laid.

 

I ask this because my ex-batt Tikka likes to lay in the washing machine after I've put something in there for her to get comfy on, my other girls are good and lay where they should. I've found one under my garden bench before and a couple in the sand bird bath container, but that was when they started laying after the transition from being rescued and getting their feathers back and knowing where they are meant to lay. Tikka will lay in the nest boxes if she can't get in the house and in my washing machine!

 

 

Debb

[Redwing]

there was a bucket on its side in my greenhouse and when I move it there were several eggs inside

[Falkor]

I found an egg in their feed trough today!

 

Not sure that whoever it was chose to lay there....I think she was more than likely caught short

[jellykelly]

I found one under the Christmas tree.

 

The tree was in the garden though - so maybe not that unusual.

[Chicken Shirl]

Washing basket, under bushes, behind the computer screen, in the garage on a shelf, on top of a box on a very high shelf, ontop of the freezer where they roll off and break, on the branch of a tree (not wise) under an upside down wheel barrow. Thats just two very crazy girls, most of mine lay under the same bush. Hardly ever in the nest box, maybe when the weather is really bad they will go in the shed and lay in the box.

[Looney]

Mine all lay in the nest box, they're obviously not very adventurous!

 

I'm laughing my socks off at the thought of a chicken in a washing machine Very cute

[ladyjulian]

Mine don't get the opportunity to lay in the washing machine!!

 

One of them does sometimes lay in the run under the henhouse though, which means either hoiking it out with a rake and risk breaking it, or move the entire run which is a real pain.

[shelley8179]

One of mine got into the garage, through the dog flap, and laid an egg in one of the cat baskets

[ladyjulian]

My cleverest girl is about a week off working out the catflap. In the last few weeks she's got as far as pecking at it, and now has got as far as pushing it open, but hasn't quite worked out how to get in once she's pushed it open. It's only a matter of time, since today she worked out that if I've been in and out of the shed, she can push the door open, plant a proprietary poo in the middle of the floor and then head for the buckets of food.

[Chicken Shirl]

My cleverest girl is about a week off working out the catflap. In the last few weeks she's got as far as pecking at it, and now has got as far as pushing it open, but hasn't quite worked out how to get in once she's pushed it open. It's only a matter of time, since today she worked out that if I've been in and out of the shed, she can push the door open, plant a proprietary poo in the middle of the floor and then head for the buckets of food.

 

 

 

nothing is safe, little minx.

[chickyhazel]

Our chickens used to wander into the house. We used to have to put a towel rail or something similar in front of the door, and they still sometimes tried to get in (although I think flapping fabric put them off)