After reading

[MS Rooster Cogb]

After reading so many of you'll ideas, I spent Sunday re-doing my Chicken coop making it safer & easier to clean & more convent for me & my Ladies. I notice they were laying in the same nest, so this morning in stead of picking my egg's up I placed an egg in a few of the other nest hoping this encourages them to lay in other nest.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

After reading so many of you'll ideas, I spent Sunday re-doing my Chicken coop making it safer & easier to clean & more convent for me & my Ladies. I notice they were laying in the same nest, so this morning in stead of picking my egg's up I placed an egg in a few of the other nest hoping this encourages them to lay in other nest.

Has it worked?

 

[MS Rooster Cogb]

yes everything has worked out. I bought some plastic eggs from the Dollar store ( the one you open & put candy in) & placed them in the nest boxes worked great & cheap! I took the back wall off cut it off about 6 inches put wire at top & bottom of it for more air & now I can just hose it out, water & poop passes through wire. Added hinges to back wall now it's a door. And I finally got the fence up around the rabbits & hen hotel so the horses can't get in to trouble. they were curious and knocking things over, I was afraid they were going to let a Rabbit out.

And I have been picking up 6 to 9 eggs a day!

 

[debid]

I used plastic eggs and found that they were more accepting of them after I installed rocks for weight. Prior to that, they kept kicking them out while arranging the straw to their liking! So, if you start finding them on the floor, add weight.

 

[JanetS]

I used golf balls. Works great!

 

[Toast n Jelly]

I used golf balls. Works great!

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