Despite many chicken - keeping sources take chickens like to share nest boxes — up to four of them per nest — each one of my diva prefer her own toilet . Go physique .
Kimora is the only chicken that lays in the actual nest . It ’s a dark , cozy cubby where she can do her commercial enterprise in secret but still keep an optic on thing .
Gisele position in the space primitively intended as the attic . It has a nice bay laurel window where she can relax , smell the prime , and feel the duck soup on her beard .
And Iman ? Iman still has n’t decide where her domain should be . She sometimes share the nest with Kimora . She sometimes lays in the center of the coop . She sometimes lays in the midriff of the run . Her first workweek , she ’d just let one drop right into the crap tray . We ’d find ballock in the niche , by the feeder and under the ladder . It ’s like an Easter ballock hunt , only she ’s not an Easter Egger .
The other week , I had a slight panic when I could n’t find Iman in the yard . The pot always sticks together like the three amigas . When one go miss , the other two crowing and call out to each other until they ’re reunite . That day , I heard Kimora and Gisele gloat ceaselessly , getting louder and louder with each passing second .
I made my rounds around the railway yard but there was no sign of Iman . I peeked over the fencing in case she had accidentally fly over it . I crawled under the oleanders . I check up in the trees . No Iman .
I hear a rustling in our compost domain and thought it was a wench . And it was — a chicken ! There in our folio compost , snuggle comfortably in her “ nest , ” was Iman .
We have three open compost bins that hold tidy sum of leaves , roughage and straw . They ’re merely plyboard panels drive in together , with the front panel 3 invertebrate foot high . Iman had somehow discovered this soft little corner , hopped over the front panel , and settled into a jury-rigged nest in the mound of rotting leaves . No wonder she ditched the other nest — her Modern retreat was a skillful 3 ft all around , with plenty of room to stretch and open her wing !
I leave behind her alone for a bit as she tossed and turned in the leaf , waiting for her contractions to start . She laid one way , then laid the other way . She picked up a few leaves with her beak and tossed them on her back . All of this move on for at least 20 minute . Then she started panting , her pick wide undefendable , and I knew she was vex ready to push . Can you think doing this three , four , even six times a week ? ?
After a few minutes , she stood up and fluffed herself . expect intimately and you ’ll see her freshly laid testicle !
Iman ’s eggs are the most inconsistent of the three crybaby . Sometimes they ’re light , sometimes they ’re dingy , sometimes they ’re speckled . But that twenty-four hours she give us a utterly placid , signature pinkish testicle . She was in her element !
