Chicken update

Just a quick update on the hens, one of the chicks died over the weekend, looked like it suffocated or was squashed by mum, this has happened before and there's nothing we can do about it, we still have 4 (visibly) healthy chicks.

The rest of the hens seem to have settled down a bit from the squabbling that was going on a few weeks ago and the henpecked one seems to be recovering, the scab has fallen off her head and feathers are regrowing.

Our glut of eggs has disappeared and we are now in the opposite situation, due to us needing to lock the hen enclosure during the day, the hens are laying around the place and I keep finding their stashes too late, after magpies or crows have raided and eaten the eggs, at least I hope that's what it is, rather than the hens turning canibalistic. Yesterday was asuccessful day and I found 7 eggs, but broke one as I managed to retrieve it. 

For note...under pyracantha, in between paving slab stack, and under jasmin hedge. Wonder where they will be today, the hens have always been a bit lazy about laying, and just seem to do it where they feel the need than making their way back to the laying boxes, so no great surprise, it's one of the jobs the grandkids like to do when they come - egg hunts.

Don't know if this will help, but I moved the old laying boxes yesterday, they were in the tin shed, but up against a wall, so they couldn't use them, I've turned it round, will go and put some shavings in it now and see what we have later in the day.