Our chickens eat layer pellets, occasionally with oyster shells. They also get lots of watermelon, potatoes, corn and other scraps. Plus what they find out free ranging in te woods.
The nest boxes are on the floor, yes.
We tried putting mustered and hot sauce in empty eggs, but apparently...
So my hens are egg eaters. What I am going to do is hatch out a new flock to replace them. I have attempted to collect eggs from a few of the hens I want babies from, and have collected 2 of the 4 eggs so far. (Quite difficult to catch them before they eat them) Setting the eggs on Wednesday...