I have plenty of nesting boxes, However they all want to lay in the same box. They argure back in forth all morning until everyone is done laying. So I put golf balls in the other unused nesting boxes thinking this will encourge them to lay in them. This morning I found all of the golf balls in one nesting box along with eggs.
Welcome I have the SAME problem form the time my girls started laying. I have two very nice nesting boxes with clean hay and they will all pile on top of each other and "fuss" until they are all completed with their laying. I also tried the golf ball thing and my girls did the same thing. They all ended up in the same box. Since then I have just left them alone. I kinda figure they will work out whatever problems they have without me. Besides when I try to help by moving one of the girls off another one when they are all in the box together, I get the stink eye and cursed out in chicken!
Welcome to BYC! That's so funny. I want to know how chickens move golf balls around... with a Nine Iron?
I have 2 hens trying to sit on the same eggs in 1 box i think there kinda goofy but they lay in there all day together on the eggs sometimes one of them will get up for a while but then she will come back and squeeze in the box with the other hen
I had a rooster giving nest box etiquette lessons to three hens (who were looking on, a bit confused)