It doesn’t seem the most sensible place to lay an egg, on a windy, exposed window ledge,
seven feet above the flagstones.
Especially when there is a snug nest box with nice clean bedding available, but the two Warrens, ‘thing one’ and ‘thing two’, have always been mavericks.
After all the programs about chicken production over the last week or so, there has been much debate about domestic poultry keeping, Hedge Wizard tells you how to go about it here, the pros and the cons, where as
You certainly need to give the idea, careful consideration, in the same way as you would before taking on a pet dog.
We have chickens and a dog, the chickens, even the maverick ones, are a breeze compared to the dog, but that may say more about the dog than chickens.
The little ones and i were marvelling at the temerity of a starling that built a nest in the great flaming ‘e’ of a ‘Zellers’ neon sign just the other night… how did the chicks get any sleep, we wondered? But i suppose in the absence of great thick trees, anything will do…
maybe your biddy hen was looking for a rocky crevice?
I think she might be trying to keep up with the youngsters, who pop through the flap in the plastic at the top of the window and go in the barn.
But she just can’t quite make it.
Do you get large flocks of starlings at dusk? they look so spectacular, not sure I would want them roosting in my garden though.
D’you think the chicken is expecting someone to pinch her eggs?
That picture is priceless!
Would it be in poor taste to say “Cracking!”?