Hens have been doing this for thousands of years with no help from humans. On rare occasions you get one that doesn’t quite get it, but as a poultry science professor and specialist in chicken reproduction who advises the professional chicken hatchers said, to paraphrase, “With all our science...
You’re getting a bit of conflicting advice, more by the time I’m finished, which is perfectly normal. We each have our own experiences, goals, management techniques, flock make-up, and set-ups, we are so unique that different things work for different ones of us. It makes it a bit more...