Hi all
I am new to all this and have two chickens both started laying around a month or so and we werent sure what to do so we setup two cardboard boxes with straw in them and they both started laying in the same one but being cardboard they didnt work out.....
We have since built a wooden box, nice and dark and has two sections to it, the first two days they both layed in the same side again, then all of a sudden only one is so for the last four mornings I have found a broken egg below where they roost at night. I went to my local poultry place a bought two fake eggs and put them in each side of the nesting box (yesterday) this morning there was one on the ground again but hadnt broken because it landed in a massive pile of poo but the other one hadnt laid in the box so took the fake egg away and came back and checked an hour later and low and behold there was the egg..... so I guess the fake eggs arent going to do the trick..
The other thing I tried was hanging some material underneath the roosting area above where I had been finding the broken eggs hopeing to catch them but she seemed to move over and away from it to drop her egg...
Anyone got any ideas whats going on, I really miss my two eggs a day. I have tried going in really early like 5am but again have missed it so think that maybe she is laying at night or something.... I have put them both in the nesting box so they feel comfortable but have run out of ideas.
Hope someone can come up with something to help
Regards
Heather
I am new to all this and have two chickens both started laying around a month or so and we werent sure what to do so we setup two cardboard boxes with straw in them and they both started laying in the same one but being cardboard they didnt work out.....
We have since built a wooden box, nice and dark and has two sections to it, the first two days they both layed in the same side again, then all of a sudden only one is so for the last four mornings I have found a broken egg below where they roost at night. I went to my local poultry place a bought two fake eggs and put them in each side of the nesting box (yesterday) this morning there was one on the ground again but hadnt broken because it landed in a massive pile of poo but the other one hadnt laid in the box so took the fake egg away and came back and checked an hour later and low and behold there was the egg..... so I guess the fake eggs arent going to do the trick..
The other thing I tried was hanging some material underneath the roosting area above where I had been finding the broken eggs hopeing to catch them but she seemed to move over and away from it to drop her egg...
Anyone got any ideas whats going on, I really miss my two eggs a day. I have tried going in really early like 5am but again have missed it so think that maybe she is laying at night or something.... I have put them both in the nesting box so they feel comfortable but have run out of ideas.
Hope someone can come up with something to help
Regards
Heather