<p style="text-align:center;"><em>By Guest Blogger Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>
When I was in high school, it was a popular youth group activity to see how many people you could fit into a VW bug. I don’t remember how many we fit but according to one website, <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/12/new-most-people-in-a-vw-beetle-record-claimed-20/" target="_blank">the record is 20</a>.

I thought about this as I went to get eggs last week and found four chickens in one nest box:

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This made checking for eggs particularly challenging.  Apparently the crowded conditions also made it a challenge for the chickens.

They laid as many eggs on the floor of the coop as in the box.

Today I went to check eggs and found this:

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It took me a few minutes but I finally counted five chickens in the middle nest box.  Can you find them all?

Perhaps I should put together a children’s counting book.  I wonder what number it would go to.   I’ll keep you posted…