Well I’m glad its not unusual! I only have young pullets- they’re all 5.5 months so they haven’t seen the nesting boxes used correctly yet. My lav Orpington was the first to lay. I have fake eggs in all the boxes as well as pads, straw and herbs. I moved the food and water to the other end of...
Hi! One of my hens (my first flock) laid her first egg yesterday- yay! But she did it in the back of the feed storage room in our barn instead of the nesting box. I saw her going there again this morning and picked her up and locked her in the coop. Now it’s hours later and she still hasn’t...