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Shorty22366
Songster
Ok eggs and hens moved new nesting boxes in same coop. Sprayed for ants and put peppermint in top of coop to drive any ants out. Peppermint is great for getting rid of ants. This is the first time my girls have set and I worry about everything. Don't want anything I can help to wrong.Then they're fine with you and won't object to your messing around with the nest(s?)
EDT: Seriously, I once had a nest that was due to hatch the day we were baling hay. (EDT2: She was in the hay-baler.) The mum was a sort-of-tame bantam, and I had to get them out of the way quickly. So I tucked her under my arm, used my shirt-bottom as a basket, and quick-marched them over to the horse-trailer. I put down the eggs, she heard them peeping, and struggled out of my arms to set right down on the new nest. Bit me several times while I tucked her remaining eggs back under her. Hens do not abandon eggs during lockdown.