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What to do with a badly behaved chicken? I’m hoping a couple of days of isolation will shift her mojo. This good-looking gal has been raiding the nesting box, eating eggs, and creating havoc in the coop. After being caught in the act, yolk-covered beak and all, she’s spent the past few days and nights sectioned off while we try to determine if she’s the only one causing trouble or if she has an accomplice. She wasn’t too happy, staring at her friends through the chicken wire and unable to join them, but she had plenty of food, water, and her own nesting box for laying—so no sympathy from me. She produces beautiful, large white eggs and, so far, hasn’t eaten her own. The rest of the flock went about their business, and although I collected lots of eggs, a few yolk-covered shells suggested there might be another culprit in the coop. Before bedtime, I removed this hen from isolation and let her return to the flock to roost… the egg-eating saga rolling into round two. I admired my beauti...
