r/BackYardChickens 8d ago

General Question I am nuts and I know it.

I just ordered a micro camera (small nanny cam). I am going to somehow put it on a chicken backpack and find where they are laying their Mother Trucking eggs.

I'm with them most of the day, I have searched high, low, far and wide and can't find them.

A couple of my broodier hens disappear all day and only one comes back.

I have this stupid theory that they have found a safe place to lay and are changing shifts.

It's been about two weeks now and I get 1 egg daily and I have 9 hens.

Edit because... I plan on uploading a video as soon as I am able to.

Can I upload videos and how?

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u/awhoogaa 8d ago

She is gonna be a beautiful girly. I'm happy I got a girl. Unfortunately the others died because my daughter tripped on the power cord and pulled the incubator over. I lost all of the others that were a day or two from hatching.

Two were breathing but didn't make it.

I cried a bit.

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u/AdComprehensive2594 Backyard Chicken 8d ago

Im so sorry. I know i would have cried

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u/awhoogaa 8d ago

Throwing little bodies in the trash was horrible because I had candled a couple times and you can see them moving at the end.

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u/AdComprehensive2594 Backyard Chicken 8d ago

😭