chickens laying on the floor

[lilshadow]

Hello everyone! Well, I got two more eggs today...yahoo! Only thing is, my hens are laying on the floor and not in the boxes. I have them 18 inches off the ground. So how can I get them to lay in the boxes instead of on the ground?
Thanks,
Veronica

 

[joanc]

Hi Veronica,
You could try putting wooden eggs or golf balls in the nests. Wooden eggs helped my ladies find the nest. Good luck.

 

[lilshadow]

what do you think of a ceramic egg? I also thought of making one out of polymer clay to see if that would work.

 

[patandchickens]

you know, that's not what I *thought* 'chickens laying on the floor' was going to be about...

Laughing at myself,

Pat

 

[Buff Hooligans]

I thought there'd be chickens laying on the floor too, Pat.

 

[bjcoop]

Me too!

--bjcoop

 

[bjcoop]

Actually, I used plastic easter eggs, filled with sand. I had them and the sand made them heavy enough to not flip out of the nest box. Didn't take long, maybe half a week before the real eggs were off the floor.
--bjcoop

 

[Golden_Gwennie]

My girls are still laying on the ground, but I will occasionally find one in the nest box. I tried the plastic eggs and it didn't work.

 

[lilshadow]

I actually did get an egg in the box after I put the ceramic eggs in, but I think those may not be heavy enough so I will try the wooden eggs, and see how that works.

 

[gobbles!]

If the eggs aren't getting broken, there's nothing too, too wrong about hens laying on the floor, right? My girls don't seem to have any interest in nest boxes whatsoever.