First egg on the floor

[davidjkcho]

Summer finally laid her first egg but on the coop floor.
She was standing by the waterer, drinking and laying an egg.
I've never seen her playing around/inside the nesting boxes.
I am not sure if she would continue to do this. She is at the bottom of pecking order.
I had to come home from work to collect the egg because they already ate one last week, and I didn't want them to build a bad habit.

 

[nuthatched]

She didn't understand what was going on, she'll figure it out.

 

[fluffycrow]

I agree, with time she'll learn what to do, more likely she just didn't know how to react to what was happening to her

 

[3KillerBs]

I agree. Very common for new layers -- they don't understand what's happening yet.

 

[davidjkcho]

Yeah, I hope she'd figure it out soon. I gotta lower the nesting box entrance for easy access. I just made it 3.5 inch higher a few days ago because they were spreading pine shavings.

 

[davidjkcho]

I was monitoring her to see how she'd lay all morning because she skipped yesterday.
Hmm, she was trying to lay in the dust bath container outside the coop so I put her back in the coop but she laid her second egg on the floor again.
What should I do? Should I add curtains to the nesting boxes?

 

[Bhubbard]

I was monitoring her to see how she'd lay all morning because she skipped yesterday.
Hmm, she was trying to lay in the dust bath container outside the coop so I put her back in the coop but she laid her second egg on the floor again.
What should I do? Should I add curtains to the nesting boxes?

She will figure it out…. Leave a golf ball or something in the box if you are quick to grab eggs out.

 

[davidjkcho]

She will figure it out…. Leave a golf ball or something in the box if you are quick to grab eggs out.

I already put golf balls there and other 3 girls had no issue.

 

[3KillerBs]

I already put golf balls there and other 3 girls had no issue.

Give her time. She'll get the idea eventually.

 

[davidjkcho]

I can wait but I don't want them to eat eggs.