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Ahhh, not so fast human peoples. A day later, and a new chicken caucus tally...the voters are switching! Nest 1 (prime rel estate): 4 eggs Nest 2 (revitalized slum): 2 fake eggs, 2 real eggs Sunflour, Monty Hall has a check in the mail for you.

The curtains are up, the ceramic eggs are in the offending nest. The results after one day: six eggs in the favorite nest, 2 ceramic eggs in the other one. Chickens are pretty weird, but so are people. Why would I care whether they really like just one nest? As I think about it, I realize...

Good point about treating both nests equally, sunflour. I can see how that might be effective. I slapped up a short piece of fabric on the tops of both nests, so we'll see. That was before I saw your post Ridgerunner, and your point about not fixin what's not broke sounds like my life. But...

Thank you both for the quick responses! You gave me some helpful ideas. I've suspected that the corner nest is the prime real estate because it's slightly more private. So per your suggestion sunflour, I think I'll try to darken the other nest with a small piece of fabric. And I'll also...

First time posting here in this amazing forum. Please bear with me if this question has been answered somewhere else; I didn't really know what to search for. This spring I got six ISA Brown chicks, returning to chicken-raising after a couple of decades off. What an absolutely marvelous...