3 nesting boxes side by side by wont they lay in the middle one?

[aliciaford]

Weird.... Ideas? They are all the same:/

 

[arlee453]

You can try putting a golf ball or fake egg in the boxes to attract the hens. They just like laying where there is already an egg.

Or, they are just weird like that and there's no logic....

Either way, mine do the same thing. They go through spells where they won't lay in the boxes on the right. Then they won't use the ones on the left side and ONLY use the right.

Maybe they are trying to fake me out so I don't find the eggs??? Silly chickens...

 

[Marlinchaser]

Mine all want to lay in the bottom right of 8 boxes, and will wait in line and cackle till the one in box leaves, I figure because it is the darkest one. Then again it may be because someone else is in there already the next in line thinks they are missing out on a good thing.