I'd rather naughtily left my mobile chicken coop full of dirty bedding since the chickens moved out from it last year.
There's been no chickens living in it for the last six months and I just hadn't got around to emptying it out, although I had left the pop hole open.
It turns out that when some of my hens were free ranging over the winter one of them was using this to store her eggs! What a waste, but I've only got myself to blame and in the future I'll make sure I'll clean them out as soon as they're empty and to shut the blinking door!
On a plus note I did build this coop big enough for my largest helper to fit in to clean it out!
Where's the weirdest place you've ever found a clutch of eggs?
Our hens excavated a burrow on the sunny side of an old compost heap! There were twenty eggs in it when we finally found out where they were going to!
ReplyDeleteI found some in an old copper by the side of the house, well over twenty in there but II'd walked past it every day for a month and not seen it!
DeleteA hen my neighbors used to have layed her eggs on the highest peak of hay in the barns hay mow. To gather eggs, they'd have to climb 20 feet.
ReplyDeleteI think I'd have to fence them in, sounds tricky to get them back down!
DeleteRed mite will rear its ugly head soon!
ReplyDeleteCant wait!
Oh how I love red mite! Haven't had it here yet...
DeleteWe had some that would go a hundred yards to the barn to hide eggs between huge rolls of hay. All kinds of strange places in the pasture and buildings. I finally built a fence around their coop as we were wasting too much time and eggs plus predators were starting to kill the wide ranging hens.
ReplyDeleteThat's the trouble I had with free ranging birds. They'd be alright to start with, then get braver and go further and then get killed!
DeleteDid you test them first to see if some were still fresh? I have just found a hen sitting on 14 eggs next to the outside gas meter. I have placed a board over her and will see how she goes. I have tried to move broodys before and they have just left the eggs.
ReplyDeleteAs I move the chickens over a month or more ago I don;t think there would be any chance of these being any good.
DeleteWe had one when I was a kid that would lay in the gutters of the house. Every so often one would come rolling out the downspout.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good way to block it up and give you a rotten egg surprise!
DeleteHave you never thought of selling your coops and other hand made products on line Kev?
ReplyDeleteI'm getting to the stage where I haven;t got a huge list of back log of jobs waiting for customers so I might have a sit down and a think about what might sell. Any ideas?
DeleteI found a clutch between two pallets of aglite blocks. I had to tape a tea-strainer to a broom handle to finagle them out, one at a time...
ReplyDeleteSounds like a giant egg and spoon race to me!
DeleteI did a post fairly recently where the hens had been laying behind some fence panels on a lovely dry grassy area. Unfortunately they had been there too long before discovery!
ReplyDeleteI remember, they're buggers for it when they free range aren't they!
DeleteI've literally JUST found a clutch of Lavender Pekin Bantam eggs behind the in-house drinker. She's got 9 eggs now in a space about 4" by 6". She'll struggle to sit on them there so I will have to relocate them and her when she does decide to sit.
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