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I think the most obvious purpose, beside showing a hen where to put her eggs, is to teach them that eggs are indestructible and to not even bother trying to explore or eat them. A few packs on a ceramic egg and nothing to show for it (but perhaps a bent beak or a headache), is a great...

I put 4 of them in the "maternity ward" when they were first moved into the coop from the inside boxes in the house. I think that if they see them and peck them often enough and find they aren't food or breakable, it implants an image in their tiny brains that it is counterproductive to even...