Nov 4, 2008

Everything is alright again

Sally started laying her eggs randomly on the floor of the house because of Buffy's broodiness (she would make raptor noises at the other chickens when they got close to the nest box). We fixed buffy's broodiness so that she is back to laying normally again but Sally didn't return to the boxes. C tried putting her physically in the box to remind her but she just ran off screaming. Hmm. Next we piled up eggs in the box since chickens usually lay where they see other eggs but no luck. The thing that finally worked was putting a box where she was laying on the floor of the house (intended for her to lay in) but turns out it bothered her enough that the next day, she returned to the nest box. yay.

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