March 4th, 2019 : Chicken Forest

[Undertoad]

A horse-sized duck?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

A horse-sized duck?

would you rather...?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Please note for future reference: if you, Griff, begin any sentence with "my girls," I am going to initially assume you mean your daughters, which may render the second half of your sentence confusing at best and horrifying at worst.

Same here, I did a whoa Nellie, back up and read that again.
He usually uses that expression referring to some combination of the three females in the house. To be fair, he has called his hens girls, but it's not nearly as often.

Originally Posted by Glinda

Chickens like to lay their eggs where eggs have already been laid. Presumably, the hens figure that if one bird already laid an egg here, it must be a pretty safe place. There are 12 nesting boxes in my coop. Invariably, at least half of those boxes will be empty, and I'll find 2-5 eggs in one or two of the boxes. This means that some hens will wait in line to use one nesting box, instead of using an empty one whenever they want.

It's a chicken thang.

Thank you, I did not know that.