@mattsinger I fear my incubation temp may have been a little low as I haven't seen any progress here, hoping just a late hatch here. We will see. Possibly some eggs wobbling around so still hopeful.
You may not even need to have the nests at ground level, most of the time my hens nested in milk crates that were a few feet off the ground. As far as laying mine laid eggs nearly every day. Hope I have helped.
In my experience if they learn to lay in the coop, they will continue to lay there. The problem is getting them to lay there in the first place. I kept my turkeys in a small enclosure and used fake eggs to entice them to lay inside. After they began to lay inside regularly, I allowed them to...
Hello, I purchased a trio of khaki campbells as well as a trio of mallards a week ago Monday. I was told that they were laying before I bought them, most of them are last years hatch. I was just wondering how soon they will start laying again. They are with my flock of ducks and chickens and...