12 eggs in one nest

[alaskachick]

No matter what I do, my 13 chickens, when they lay, all lay in the same box. We have 5 boxes, the corner box is their favorite. I have tried moving eggs to other boxes, using ping pong balls, making the corner box less comfortable, but they still leave a pile of eggs in the box. Today there were 12 in the pile. My only concerns is that when a chicken jumps into the box they will break one, eat it, and find out the reason we people loves eggs and then start enjoying themselves.

 

[firsthouse_mp]

Pretty much all 6 of ours lay in the same box too. I have tried and tried figuring out how to get them to lay in the others, but they don't like it. I wasted 2 eggs doing some experimenting--leaving the two eggs in the other two boxes for 3 days.....

 

[Mahonri]

Lately I've been switching around golf balls.

I had one in each, but I put two in 3 of the 7.

Now they lay in one of those three, cuz they see the two balls in the nest.

Goof ball hens.