Some hens are more selective than others and need to be shown that the nest box is a SAFE place to lay their egg. If they see another egg or eggs in it, they will usually accept that it is a safe place.
I have used wooden eggs that look like brown eggs and painted eggs and if no eggs available, a golf ball will fool them, too.
Every once in awhile we will have rebel, she will lay on the floor of the coop or sometimes even in the barnyard on the ground!
Also, you will see how they eventually pick a FAVORITE nest box and will try to crowd in with another hen or stand in line, fussing the whole time!
Laura Roberts
R Half Pint Farm
Spotsylvania, VA
From: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of verschwistert
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:23 PM
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Hello from west-central Illinois!
We're getting mostly full-sized eggs now, as many as three in a day. A quite small egg two days ago suggests to me that one of the hens is just starting. One has taken a notion to lay her egg on the ground in the run, rather than in the chicken house nest boxes the last two days. Does anyone know how to say "Hey, cut that out!" in Chicken?
CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
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