Official Nesting Box Supervisor

[SilverLacedFarmChik]

One of my Golden Comets has recently appointed herself Official Nesting Box Supervisor. I've noticed when another hen gets up to decide where to lay she gets up there too and follows them around, sometimes pushing them out of the nest they want.

When I am there cleaning out the boxes and replacing the shavings she's right in there, clucking at me and checking out the boxes. Looking around and acting very upset when the box is empty with no shavings. And I'm like "Give me second, Too! I'm only one person here!" (Her name is Too).
So I put the new shavings in- and in she goes, to burrow around in pretty much every box.

Does anyone else have a bird like this? It's not that I think anything is wrong with her, I actually think it's funny. Even when she's completely in my way being an absolute nuisance. Probably just part of her personality, she's been goofy since she was 3 days old.

 

[Sunny the Chicken]

Is she at the top of the pecking order?

 

[Sally PB]

Oh, so many bad puns I could make... I'll only do one.

That is just Too funny.

See, I said it was bad.

 

[SilverLacedFarmChik]

Is she at the top of the pecking order?

She seems to be more of a mid-packer. My Australorps are pretty much at the top and none of them seem to give two-hoots about the nesting boxes. They go in, lay, and get out.

 

[3KillerBs]

The Brahma in my avatar used to consider it her duty to announce not only her own eggs but everyone else's eggs too -- perhaps making up for the fact that she's a poor layer (she hasn't done this since she started her molt).

 

[aart]

I had a neurotic nest supervisor terrorist. She was relentless and disrupted all the layers.
I finally had to get rid of her.

 

[SilverLacedFarmChik]

I had a neurotic nest supervisor terrorist. She was relentless and disrupted all the layers.
I finally had to get rid of her.

Oh my, yeah she's definitely not to that level. She just likes to know what's going on in the nests, I guess. It's probably a good thing she's not at the top of the pecking order, I've seen plenty of the hens tell her to "Get lost!" when she follows them in to the nests, lol.

 

[aart]

I've seen plenty of the hens tell her to "Get lost!" when she follows them in to the nests,

That's good.
Is she laying?

 

[SilverLacedFarmChik]

That's good.
Is she laying?

She's a decent layer...though I will probably not bother with Golden Comets again. Her two 'sisters' are horribly broody. Last summer one of them went broody pretty much the entire summer and fall. I would break her and 2 weeks later she was back at it. So if they layed a dozen eggs between the 2 of them I would be surprised.
'Too' is a good layer, but not yet this year. The hens are gearing up right now even though we are still in winter here. So any day now...