chicken nest -- eggs

[Muskrat]

Why did the chicken cross the road ? To lay a dozen eggs and counting by my front porch ! emoLaugh This started close to three weeks ago. I believe the chicken travels from way up the road from where I hear roosters quite a bit. One rooster was at the nest the first day but I haven't seen him since. The hen is sitting on the eggs most all the time now especially during this rain. We've named her "Chicken Little". Anyone know much about chickens besides scrambled eggs ? emoTongue

 

[alicia ayers]

hey muskrat, looks like different size eggs too ! My husband used to raise ducks . Will ask him if similar to chickens . Maybe?

 

[lafae7]

I have a bunch of hens. I get about a dozen eggs everyday. Is she laying the eggs then leaving or staying with them?

 

[hoop235]

Looks to me like you have a source for some "free" eggs if you want them in the future. Lol!!
Wouldn't eat these because of their age but you could clean all of them out except one egg and mark it with a sharpie and then just collect the new ones. (Or you can put a golf ball in place of the "one" egg and she'll never know the difference)

 

[Muskrat]

She was laying an egg about every other day and then leaving. In the last couple of days she won't leave the nest except to peck around at seed and bugs in the yard for a little while. I know it takes 21 days for an egg to hatch and it's been just about that length of time when she first started laying. She may be doing it to protect them from any rain also. Her eggs are like extra-large except for one that is the size of a golf ball. I'm not sure if she's going to ever go back to where she came from ? All I need is a pet chicken - and chicks !

 

[lafae7]

Muskrat - 3/1/2018 6:14 PM

She was laying an egg about every other day and then leaving. In the last couple of days she won't leave the nest except to peck around at seed and bugs in the yard for a little while. I know it takes 21 days for an egg to hatch and it's been just about that length of time when she first started laying. She may be doing it to protect them from any rain also. Her eggs are like extra-large except for one that is the size of a golf ball. I'm not sure if she's going to ever go back to where she came from ? All I need is a pet chicken - and chicks !

Sounds like she has started brooding. Which is a good and bad thing.

 

[Muskrat]

That's what I'm thinking also. I read about "broody" hens a week or so ago. I guess I should have been removing the egg each time after she laid one. I don't have enough golf balls now -- lol.

 

[Mr. S]

Aww. every body needs a yard full of chicks Jeff... emoSmile

 

[Softbaitmaker]

Keep a bunch of Chickens around and they will keep your tick population down to a miminum along with other bugs.

 

[Dmountainmanb]

After they hatch she will take them back home

 

[CherokeeRidge]

After she starts sitting the eggs and hen can moved. Looks like she's a pullett their first eggs are usually small. Make sure she has something to eat closeby. When she starts setting she'll only come off the nest once a day. She won't be really aggressive until the eggs hatch. It'll take 21 days.

 

[Muskrat]

CherokeeRidge - 3/4/2018 8:27 AM

After she starts sitting the eggs and hen can moved. Looks like she's a pullett their first eggs are usually small. Make sure she has something to eat closeby. When she starts setting she'll only come off the nest once a day. She won't be really aggressive until the eggs hatch. It'll take 21 days.

I wouldn't know "egg-zactly" where to move them or her. I just wish I knew where she came from ? I'm sure whomever had her just wanted her for the eggs and not a bunch of chicks running around. Does anyone know what kind she might be ? She's a brownish chicken but brown chickens usually lay brown eggs. These eggs are white. Must be some sort of hybrid. I've found 3-4 kinds that she might be but just not sure ? I just mowed the yard and she didn't flinch with the mower around her. She's in some sort of chicken trance on that nest. She's got water - bird seed - and eating bugs out of the yard once a day. I've got a dog and don't really want a chicken.

 

[Muskrat]

RE: chicken nest -- eggs -- Update: 10 baby chicks

Chillin' with my peeps. Mama chicken scratching out breakfast in 30 degree weather this morning. These chicks just hatched a few days ago. I just hope they all go back to wherever they came from soon.

 

[hoop235]

Looks like you're in the chicken business now! Lol

 

[JEEPnFISH]

Baby chicks just in time for Easter!

 

[Softbaitmaker]

I'm guess they have found a home right there with you if I know how chickens think, which I do cause I grew up on a farm and once a chicken stakes a claim it pretty much becomes home....................LOL

 

[RRB32]

Lol looks like you have some new tenants