Goodness. I considered a dog yesterday! As I type this, there’s currently a hawk circling. The ladies are spending a lot more time cooped these days than I’d like. But seeing these hawks swoop into the yard a couple times these last few weeks is a no-go for me. What kind of dogs do you have? We...
That must be nice come summer being up higher. It was so hot last summer. Too hot! Any reason for the move? We were looking to move but just might expand the house instead. We shall see!
Thanks for the reply. I was wondering about a hidden nest. Went searching the yard all over the place and no luck. Raked out the coops and couldn’t find any hidden eggs. Such a bummer.
Any tips on breaking the broody hen? Never have needed to do this before haha!
I guess it all just seems so...
So, the neighbors behind us have a rooster and chickens now. And since the rooster came, our hens have all but stopped laying, one is extremely broody (she literally isn’t sitting on any eggs either but won’t leave the boxes) and another is looking egg bound now. We were getting so many eggs...