Chickens dropping eggs in random places

[LBC CHICKEN CAPT.]

Hi I was hoping someone could help my wife an I out with our chicken issue. After a long wait we were blessed w our first eggs on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! Best present ever. However we found the eggs in the run portion of our coop as well as out in our yard as they free range daily. They have three nesting boxes that they have made perfect nests in over the past couple weeks but no eggs in the nesting boxes. Also this morning we found two broken eggs under the roosting pole. It looked like the eggs just fell out from two feet up and cracked. Please help!! Thank you!!

 

[junebuggena]

Completely normal for pullets new to laying. Remember, they've never done this before, and they don't have any mature hens to learn from. They have to figure it out on their own, and that takes time.

 

[Phage]

Hi I was hoping someone could help my wife an I out with our chicken issue. After a long wait we were blessed w our first eggs on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! Best present ever. However we found the eggs in the run portion of our coop as well as out in our yard as they free range daily. They have three nesting boxes that they have made perfect nests in over the past couple weeks but no eggs in the nesting boxes. Also this morning we found two broken eggs under the roosting pole. It looked like the eggs just fell out from two feet up and cracked. Please help!! Thank you!!

You could put golf balls in the nests to encourage them to use them.

 

[kitkat5505]

Definitely normal. You can try putting fake eggs or golf balls in the nesting boxes and leave them confined until afternoon until they get used to where you want them to lay.

 

[Smuvers Farm]

Fake eggs in the nesting boxes. Golf balls work well. You can also mark REAL eggs and put them into the boxes. (Change them out every once in a while though)

Chickens like to lay where other eggs are. Not sure why, but they do! They'll learn very quickly that way.

 

[RodNTN]

As @junebuggena said, they have no mature hens to learn from; so they basically have no idea whatsoever of what they are doing.
Why don't you slip some fake eggs or golf balls into the nests? This would be of great help to the inexperienced girls Best wishes!