We ended up with chickens this summer kinda by default. They needed them to be part of the entertainment for summer camp and the birds had to have a place to stay, so...the old greenhouse shed is next door to our house and was easy to convert into a chicken house. Since they were going to be living so close to us, I requested that we get all hens. And that's what we thought we had
until recently.
One of the girls was starting to look a little suspect--going red in the gobbler and comb region.
This week it was confirmed.
There is definite cockadoodling.
AND,
we got our first egg!!!
So at least one of them is a hen.
Any suggestions on how to get her to lay IN the chicken house?
My grandpa puts s lot of hay in the hen house so they can kind of make a nest and I have also heard that if you put a white plastic egg they will lay with it. Worth a shot I guess? Good luck! Nothing beats fresh eggs!
ReplyDeleteI'm not really informed about chickens, but that picture looks like a rooster to me.
ReplyDeleteDid you eat the egg?