I wish I've known that chicken recognized their keepers and strangers. We had a sitter to take care of them while we were on 1 wk vacation, we told the sitter that we have 8-10 eggs a day and she can have them all. When we came back home, she told us she only get 2 eggs a day which puzzled us, since they were very consistent w/ # for months, couple of days later while I was checking the coop I found over 40 eggs stashed in the corner behind the nests stacks. The little boogers hid their eggs from the stranger lady.