We don’t usually keep a trail cam by the chicken coop but I’ve been seeing some pretty big tracks back there so I put a camera up. There’s an amazing amount of wildlife around that coop! First, there have been reports of a wild woman in the neighborhood. I have proof . . she’s in my yard!
Trail Cam Image
All the strawberry hulls, the carrot skins, the apple peelings .. everything goes to the chickens so I was out sharing treats with them. I would have smiled had I remembered there was a camera there!
Every wild woman needs a wild man and the camera caught a glimpse of him too!
Trail Cam Image
I said “Vince, why are you checking eggs in the bantam coop?” Those chickens are too young to be laying! He said “It’s just a habit! Stop spying on me!” The first chickens on this side of the coop were the original bantams and they did lay and then the four red hens were on this side and they were laying but now that the young bantams are in there, they aren’t laying but it’s just habit to open that door and check eggs. I do the same thing.
As far as real wildlife . . of course, nothing came by last night since I had the camera out there and ready to see them.
Joyce says
I never thought about how you check the nests for eggs. My grandparents had chickens when I was a little girl, and they had a big hen house that you went inside to gather eggs. I was a little afraid of getting pecked, so I didn’t go in very often. When I think about gathering eggs, that’s the image in my head. Your setup looks much easier!
Judy Laquidara says
We don’t go in .. it’s nasty and poopy in there even right after you clean it. They get used to us checking the boxes and we don’t disturb them at all.
Carolyn says
Oh I’m laughing at myself, I thought you had to climb into the chicken coop, to get at the eggs! LOL Mighty inconvenient I thought.