What are they like?

[Eco-Chic]

There I was chucking shavings around the nest box (poo picking) and banking the shavings up when I flipped up an egg. Didn't break it luckily. Carried on and then flipped up a 2nd egg.

Why are the girls suddenly burying their eggs?

Teddy's attack on Myrtle seems to be forgotten (by Myrtle, not me) and I think I've been forgiven. She was facing the door of the coop tonight. What a good night to surprise them all with dried mealworms

They lurved them. I was a bit squeamish at first and served them from a dish but they were bouncing and flipping them out of the dish in their eagerness to scoff them and they ended up in my hands anyway

I don't think there can be too much in the way of grubs and insects around at the moment as I've noticed the chooks pop back into the run to eat a few pellets every now and then.

I've also started using one of those big coolie hat lids on the feeder in the covered run. It's fab. Their food is staying really clean. They used to kick dirt into the scratcher bit and sometimes poo in it I don't have to clean it every day now and food isn't being wasted because it's contaminated

[Nicos]

Mine too are demanding more food...only one egg per day from 7 gals at the mo..come on gals....

[tlck9]

I bought one of those 3kg food lids from the farmer stores and its excellent, as I dont have the food under proper cover and keeps it all dry

Is it possible that the others chucks have covered the eggs while scratching around.

Mine move the shavings from one side to the other, so one day I may even find one of the chucks asleep under it

I'm getting 3 eggs a day at the moment from my four, Omlet started laying every other day since mid last week when she started again after her op, so I'm chuffed esp as I have orders for christmas from the family !

[Eco-Chic]

Is it possible that the others chucks have covered the eggs while scratching around.

Mine move the shavings from one side to the other, so one day I may even find one of the chucks asleep under it

Nah, the cheeky minxes are doing it to tease me. They usually kick all the shavings out of the box then lay eggs on the bottom.

Today there was a chook shaped indentation in the shavings and the eggs were at the bottom of the box under about 3 or 4 inches of shavings. They're 'avin' a larf

I'll get my own back by moving their perches around and confusing 'em

[HayleyB]

Bok bok bwerk bok bok chooka chookabok....

Translation - She's nicking our eggs so we'll hide 'em that'll fox her

[Eco-Chic]

Well it would have foxed me Hayley if they hadn't pooped in their nest box!

I did move the perches the other day (not out of meaness then) and I noticed that for two days Madge kept leaning from the top perch to wipe (sharpen) her beak onto the lower one, which was by now much lower, and she couldn't reach. She looked utterly baffled

[Eco-Chic]

One egg in the nest box and one very well hidden under the shavings in the coop

Spent a long time doing a thorough skipping out and making all tidy and tickety boo and in comes Maude kicking the shavings around and finding mealworms and corn that got dropped last night when they were on the perch.