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See my new post. Let's keep conversing about our girls. Where are you located?

Now we are almost at 23 wks, and the first girl is finally consistently laying in the nesting boxes. #2 is laying under the the roosts, like #1 was for awhile.

Update, Dahlia has laid one a day, and now lays them in the coop, but next to the wall. Another girl ,(a Wellie), laid her first one in the nesting box. Yay! More to come soon, they are 22+ weeks.

Thank you for your reassurances and wisdom. Found some golf balls to put in the boxes. I hope to have good news in a week or so. Seems only one girl (Dahlia) is laying at this time. The other eggs had been there, because of the rain I hadn't been expecting any yet, and guess she had laid the two...

I found some golf balls laying around, so used those. How long did it take your girls to lay in the nests?

I found an egg today in another part of their yard. I think it's just one girl laying. I have put golf balls in the nesting box. How long do you think until she'll 'get it's and lay there. Also, will the other girls follow suit? I also have Welsummers who don't look ready yet. The eggs all had...

No roos here, so no chicks.

I found two more eggs out in their yard, and it's raining today, but a cool 45 degrees. I've confined them in their coop/run for now. It's like Easter at Christmas! 🐇🥳 Thank you for the encouragement!

Well, I went to check on them this afternoon and found 2 more eggs in their yard. They are now confined to their run/coop for a few days. Getting some wooden eggs. Would those work?

Yay, found the first egg today! Probably from one of my 4 ISA browns. 20 weeks ish old. It was laid in the sand under the coop. Then an ISA did a squatty behavior on the lawn, then went up the coop ramp but came back out. I am afraid to let them into my garden because they may lay under the...