Golf ball theory for egglaying?

[d.k]

* I've tried a golfball AND a ceramic egg. Chook's response is like " Somethin's HERE already!!! I better go drop my egg all the way on the other side of the yard. "

 

[Davaroo]

Sounds like a load of bollox to me. More of a wives tale, like spinning a needle over a chick to learn its sex. One of those delicious, lurid things we love to tell that "always works" - or not at all.

BUT, never let it be said that I wont try something. Ill give this a shot.

 

[hoosier]

I use golf balls and I now have one hen that lays round, golf ball size eggs. OH says she thought that was what I wanted!

 

[tnkinhunting]

I have eight nest boxes - two have golf balls and one has a green tennis ball - the others are empty. They lay where the golf balls are - won't go near the tennis ball and dust in the other nests.

 

[Mattake2]

I had actually considered a tennis ball too... just to keep them on their toes!

 

[MiniDriver]

I don't have golf balls, but I do have a couple old darning eggs that now live in the nest boxes.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

I found wooden eggs at a gift shop last week and bought 8 of them for $1.00 each. Now there is one in each nest along with the next with the golfball...just in case they can't remember what that nest if for!!

 

[Finn]

The golf ball trick seems to work good for finding a dedicated layer,I just make sure to use a ball with a stripe so I don't try to make an omelet out of it.
The hens that loved sitting on the golf balls became my incubaters,the rest were just egg producers.