Today Peaches was sharing a nest box with broody Butterscotch. This time there was no one in the other nest box though. The new trend seems to be to share with Butterscotch.
Peaches and Butterscotch share the nest box
Peaches pushed herself under Butterscotch’s wing
Peaches pushes her luck
I don’t know what Peaches was playing at but she pushed herself further and further underneath Butterscotch until Butterscotch lost patience with her and chased her out of the nest box.
Butterscotch landed a couple of pecks to Peaches back until Peaches jumped out of the nest box and went straight into the nest box next door. There she stayed until she had laid her egg.
Butterscotch is left in peace
Butterscotch fluffed herself up and settled in peace on her own once more.
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I’ve seen that before . I think Peaches just wNted that space and it was already nice and warm
I thought she had returned to babyhood! Or should that be chickhood!
At our home, Penny and Speckles were having a fight over the nesting box. They both felt the need to lay an egg at the smae time, so they were trying to squeeze into the box together.
Speckles must have kicked her out, because Penny started sending off the alarm call (really more like honking and shrieking), which made the rooster freak out!
Thankfully everyone had their egg laid eventually!
They make such a fuss when they want to lay at the same time! I hear lots of shouting about it until they settle one way or another. Glad I am not the only one.