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Anyone else's hens trying to turn every day into an Easter egg hunt?
I have 9 hens and a rooster who can leave their pen and comfy nest boxes to roam a large fenced field they share with some of my goats. My horse barn is in the same field although the horses are out of the barn before the chickens come out.
Yesterday I found 1 egg in the nest boxes, 1 in a horse's feed pan, one on the floor of the goat's stall, and 1 between the bales in my hay room. If they are out, I never know if I found all the eggs. If I lock them in, they lay happily in the nest boxes, but I don't want to do that. The boxes are clean and soft with hay. Any suggestions to minimize the daily egg hunt?
I have 9 hens and a rooster who can leave their pen and comfy nest boxes to roam a large fenced field they share with some of my goats. My horse barn is in the same field although the horses are out of the barn before the chickens come out.
Yesterday I found 1 egg in the nest boxes, 1 in a horse's feed pan, one on the floor of the goat's stall, and 1 between the bales in my hay room. If they are out, I never know if I found all the eggs. If I lock them in, they lay happily in the nest boxes, but I don't want to do that. The boxes are clean and soft with hay. Any suggestions to minimize the daily egg hunt?