The hen must have thought she could relax and lay her first egg beside you without being disturbed. A show of trust.
We had a hen who snuck into my Dad’s workshop, perhaps for the same reasons, and laid an egg on top of the arm of his radial arm saw. Balanced if very nicely.
19 posted on 10/19/2017 6:54:38 PM PDT by Hieronymus
(It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)