No chickens will lay their eggs in what's available for them. In my personal experience my chickens like to lay in the box that get the most sun light but, they have layed next to the ducks pool
I live in Indiana and they eat at night at some point because I fill all there feeders up that are in the coop and its empty by morning. I want them to continue to lay eggs during winter so will I need to put a light up for that
Thinks for the addvice I decided to wait til morning and it still had not made its way out so I cut the top of the egg and the duck shortly made his way out and is doing very well