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What do your nests look like? How high is the lip around them? Part of chicken exploration and even playing involves scratching. Do you need to raise the lip on the nests to stop them from easily scratching things out? Things like freshly laid eggs when they get to that point.

Are they absolutely necessary? No. But the purpose is to try to get the pullets to lay in the nests instead of somewhere else random. They tend to like to lay where others are laying. Will fake eggs guarantee that the pullets will use those nests? No. But they improve your odds.