golf balls to put in the next to get the girls interested in a nest box? It worked for my last flock, thinking it's time to try that again. I have a couple that need to get on the...ahem>>>ball! I want an egg or two!
I've used them before, but now I always have older hens to show the younger hens "the way of the nestbox".
Quote:That's a good idea...I just read somewhere else here, that some use hard boiled eggs. I'm afraid they might want to eat those? Do you use colored plastic eggs?? And that works? That's a cute idea. I can just see my grand kids running in from the coop yelling, grandma, there's a purple, pink, green, and yellow egg out there!
I did that with mine, and it worked like a charm! What's funny is when they go broody and sit on the golf balls like they are going to hatch them!
I tried using the plastic, colored eggs, but they were so lightweight that they just kicked them out of the nest boxes. Since that time, I have been using golf balls with great success. Right now I have a broody sitting on four eggs, and a pink and a purple golf ball. I guess I will have to sneak those out of there if she actually hatches out a few chicks.
The plastic Easter eggs work great for me. I just put a good sized rock inside each one and it ends up being the right weight. I have one in each of the four nest boxes. I tried taking them out and everyone will go lay in the same box. Seems they like laying in a box with an egg. This keeps them spaced out and using all the boxes.
I had a fake egg in the nest box only 4 chicken 1 nest the adult hen and 1 pullet were using it the other 2 pullet were going in with the 1st girl when she was laying so. I thought yea they know where to lay. How wrong I was the 3rd pullet decided to lay somewhere else and the 1st pullet followed her
