Well this morning, my girl that's laying kicked the golf ball, and the hard boiled dummy eggs out of the nest box I want her to lay in... Then layed in it. But only after I put some of the ground cover she's used to laying in, into the box. She was so stressed out and frantic to get back over to...
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Basicaly it's this: most hens like to lay where someone else has layed an egg already, because that looks like a safe place. And to most hens, golf balls look enough like eggs for them to except them as eggs. So if you want your hens to lay in a particular place, and can't find any else...
Yeah I had the same problem, except mine was laying between to rusted out cars that are in the yard. There's some old car parts and stuff between the cars and she'd found a little hard to see nook in that stuff to make a nest. I've currently turned the two eggs I found in the little nest she...