Threesomes!

[Tweetypie]

I bet that got your attention. Before you all think I have turned into a pervert....

Went to let the hens out this morning and could only see Cindy desperate to get out. I opened up the "new" coop, incidentally this is where they lay their eggs - they sleep in the old coop - to find that Mabel, Barbie and Miss Muffet were all sat in ONE nest box, or should I say they were all trying to fit into it. I wish I had taken a photo.

I really wish I could get into their tiny brains to establish WHY they all sleep in the original coop and yet all (except Cindy) lay their eggs in the same same nest box in the NEW coop??? Just been out to find 3 eggs in there.

OH is a tad peeved that he spent time and money building that new coop for Mabel and Muffet, when 2 weeks ago they decided to move in with Barbie and Cindy in the old coop. :roll: and now it is just a giant nest box 11 and they say there is nowt so queer as folk.....

 

[LadyA]

I had that. Eventually, I just blocked off the spare henhouse, so they can't get in there! And yes, there are three nest boxes in the henhouse, but I too have seen hens all squeezed into the same one! Two on the bottom, and one sitting on top of them! It's like none of them will give in to be the one to leave! :roll:

 

[Tweetypie]

I am pleased to know that mine aren't the only queer birds, LadyA. I don't mind them using both coops, as they only mess in the old one which they sleep in, but would love to know why they all need to share the same nestbox. I even saw Mabel sat in the nestbox around 5pm one evening. Very odd. I thought she had been taken by a bird of prey or something else when she wasn't under the shrubs with the others.

 

[Hen-Gen]

Ditto. Invariably when I go down to collect eggs the eggs in each hen house are all in the same nest boxes. I’ve never found them “cohabiting” but assume that the sight of one egg induces the others to lay in the same place.
PS
I don’t think there’s anything perverted about threesomes. Never done it myself but so long as it doesn’t frighten the horses, as that old saying goes!?

 

[Tweetypie]

PS
I don’t think there’s anything perverted about threesomes. Never done it myself but so long as it doesn’t frighten the horses, as that old saying goes!?

11 :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[LadyA]

As to the eggs all being in the same box, I have caught a hen, collecting eggs from a neighbouring nest box and shuffling them along and into her's! She wasn't broody either. Just liked to pretend that she'd laid them all, I think! :mrgreen:

 

[bigjim]

They're crazy bits of kit, mine do the same.
You can always rely on hen-gen to be funny, nearly spat me hot chocolate out.

 

[Tweetypie]

I wonder why they do it? That's so funny, shuffling the eggs along into one box. I have added more straw and ruffled the straw in all boxes. I also got OH to add a temporary tall divider between the long nestbox. Let's see what they do tomorrow morning ;-)

 

[Hen-Gen]

You can always rely on hen-gen to be funny, nearly spat me hot chocolate out.

I wasn’t trying to be funny, just reassuring tweetiepie that even the idea is not perverted (between consenting adults).
You never seemed to me to be a hot chocolate kind of guy, bigjim. More Caribbean coffee maybe!

 

[Tweetypie]

I think one man is enough. Perish the thought of having to tolerate double the secret wind passing :lol:

 

[bigjim]

You can always rely on hen-gen to be funny, nearly spat me hot chocolate out.

I wasn’t trying to be funny, just reassuring tweetiepie that even the idea is not perverted (between consenting adults).
You never seemed to me to be a hot chocolate kind of guy, bigjim. More Caribbean coffee maybe!

Can't stand coffee, tea with two sugars or a hot chocolate.

 

[bigyetiman]

We have hens that all try to get in the same laying box, sort of group bonding, although eventually one of the 3 has to move. We have also had one that tried to sleep on top of two birds on the perch! That didn't end well either.
Tea for me also.

 

[Hen-Gen]

Well far be it for me to be Drinkist because I love tea aswell. Tea, coffee, chocolate - all good. But I do find all those herbal concoctions pretty foul but appreciate that some folk enjoy them. Never tried Horlicks because I associate it with people in psychogeriatric units!
On that theme I have a hen that belongs in a psychogeriatric unit. Bad tempered and moody. Several times in my henhouse which is way beyond any human listener I have been heard by the assembled flock to shout,”for Petes sake, chill you obnoxious b.......”.

 

[LadyA]

Well far be it for me to be Drinkist because I love tea aswell. Tea, coffee, chocolate - all good. But I do find all those herbal concoctions pretty foul but appreciate that some folk enjoy them. .

That would be me! I don't drink "normal" tea. At a pinch, I enjoy Redbush tea with a little milk, but usually, I drink either plain green tea or green tea with mint, or sometimes a more "special" blend, if I find something nice. At the moment, I'm enjoying a nice one, white tea with blueberry & elderflower. And I drink an occasional coffee, maybe 3 or 4 a week, maximum.

 

[Icemaiden]

Two mothers-in-law would be another side effect of course!

 

[Margaid]

I had two mother's-in-law but without the two men! OH's adoptive mother and then, at 51 , he traced his natural mother. Fortunately no problems with either of them except that one never stopped talking!

 

[LadyA]

I never had a mother in law. My husband was 64 when we married. His parents had both died in their 60s, both of cancer. And he was an only child, so I had no in laws at all, apart from stepsons and daughters in law! He was a widower with eight adult children when we married.

 

[Tweetypie]

We're you previously married LadyA or did you just not find the right one until later? I've been married before. My husband is a lot older than me, so his parents long gone and he didn't have children. I have 3 grown ups, none married yet. ?