Why am I finding eggs laying around
07-17-2024, 02:59 AM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: west central wi USA
Posts: 2,256
First year, young hens do this. They get the urge to lay an egg, and they do it. They haven't put together the whole nesting thing yet. A friend of mine once brought me a nest of hatched grouse eggs. Among them was a hatched turkey egg. The turkey had laid her egg in the grouse nest and apparently the grouse hatched it!
07-18-2024, 03:41 PM
#3
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: MT
Posts: 763
First year, young hens do this. They get the urge to lay an egg, and they do it. They haven't put together the whole nesting thing yet. A friend of mine once brought me a nest of hatched grouse eggs. Among them was a hatched turkey egg. The turkey had laid her egg in the grouse nest and apparently the grouse hatched it!
Thank You for that information. I have a lot of them so hopefully next year they know what to do.
