I am not sure how well the new nest boxes are going to work. Today I lifted them on to the top of the little coops (which I am keeping closed to stop Butterscotch going in) and they were ignored.
A little later we noticed Topaz was missing. As the little coops were closed and she wanted to practice her egg laying, she decided to find her own spot. I opened up the chicken shed and there she was settled into a corner.
Topaz has a new place to practice laying eggs
We are fine with this because I poop pick the shed first thing each morning so it is always clean and always has a deep layer of shavings. If any of the girls want to lay in here it would be no problem and may ease the queue when they all want to lay at the same time. As my husband pointed out they would have four corners to choose from.
Half an hour later Topaz strode out shouting. I checked to see if there was an egg but there wasn’t. Topaz needs an awful lot of practice.
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I’ve never heard of anyone with a hen that behaves like Topaz: she defies every rule in the book!
I agree, I too have never come across anyone with a “Topaz”. I look at a lot of chicken information and a lot of blogs and have never come across another girl like her. She is truly unique. If you look at her expression it is one of getting the job done. You can now see how I mistook an egg as hers, she seems so serious but never an egg. She is artful at fibbing!