knoturavggrl
Chicken Math Victim
If it helps I have 9 pullets and a feisty teen Roo they are all 6 months old, they are my first chickens so no experienced chickens to show them the way. Its utter laying chaos over here at the moment. Three will lay in the nest boxes now. 1 my head pullet has decided best place to lay her eggs is in the smack middle of the run. Have yet to figure this one out. I mean why?? The rest are laying UNDER the roosting area in a corner farrrrr in the back. Thankfully its a poop free area but goodness it hard to get to. I have to send in a kiddo. I gave up worrying about it, my three who started laying first are the ones now laying in the nest boxes. Hopefully they will get there eventually. Not alone in the new egg layer fiascoOh how I wish it was any of those things!
1. The boxes are brand new. We built them and put them in less than a week after they started laying. Brand new bedding.
2. Golf balls at first. Then real eggs. Nothing.
3. They are as far from both the pop door and the walk-in door as we can get them. This is the oddest part to me. There are so much quieter places to lay than right next to the pop door!
4. Not that I can tell. Usually they all lay in the same place.
Today I put curtains on both the nest boxes and the underside of the boxes to the floor and put nice new shavings there, with a golf ball where it can be seen.
The below pics are 1. Nest boxes. 2. Coop...pop door on the left, nest boxes on the right. (Brick where they laid today.) And 3. Silly birds where they begin every night...all 4 piled in a corner behind the feeders. They move to the roosts eventually. Silly birds.View attachment 3400751View attachment 3400752View attachment 3400753
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