me first! no, me first! nooo, me!!

[mr darcy]

buff and gypsy who are inseperable girls have taken to sitting in the same nestbox and laying eggs more or less in synch anyone seen this before?

[Nicos]

No!....how sweet is that???

[Suechooks]

Several of mine ignore the nest box in their hut and lay in a gap between the wall of the run and the end of a straw bale there as a windbreak for the winter. The gap is about 3" wide and the depth of the bale. Ever seen a Black Rock, Bluebelle and a Sussex sitting on each others heads like so many sardines with eggs raining down to the floor!

[kirsty b]

Did have a moment the other year when I had 3 hens all want to lay at the same time in the samebox. I tried putting two in different boxes but they weren't having any of it!

Got a pic somewhere of 2 chooks squised in tight to the box and another one trying to sit on top of them - if I've still got it I'll post it.

Current batch of chookies more polite, they take it in turns.

[RichmondHens]

My banties sit on each other too. They look so funny. There's plenty of room in the nestbox but they all want to lay in the same patch. They even try to burrow under each other's wings. Some days I go out to get eggs and there's just a great pile of birds laying eggs and chuntering to each other.

Doesn't seem to happen with the big ones though. They just go in in an orderly fashion, and if anyone is a bit slow to come out the next one wanting to go in shouts loudly - "hurry up, hurry up, my egg is coming" till it's their turn.

[its hilly]

Ive got 3 nestboxes in the big house, they could take at least six side by side. But no, they all trundle round to the other loosebox, with a permenently open door, a very nosy eight month old foal who goes to look (complete with nose nudges) every time someone makes a clucking, and try to cram into the little half moon basin thats left where we took out an auto drinker bowl that had been cemented in.
And yesterday there was one heck of a racket, so I shot in, only to find three hens arguing and trying to shove each other out, while Russ the big red hybrid cockeral took his chance and lept on whichever one was sat still long enough..DOH

[Glutton4...]

LOL Hilly - that's a great picture!

[mr darcy]

these posts all had me in stitches! aren't hens hilarious! i love em!