In the summer time will my girls lay in the nesting box or outside?

[UP_Chicken_Lover]

Our Black Sex Link hens have always laid in their nesting box - and we are wondering if this summer when they have the bigger yard to range in, if they will still come back to the coup to lay? Or do I have to rent a Bloodhound to find their eggs? lol

 

[BeckyLa]

Mine always come back to the nests to lay, no problem.

 

[Omran]

Well if you let them free range all day they might lay out side, but if they really get used to thier nesting boxes and you leave the door open for them and they don't wonder far away from the coop then they will go back to the boxes.
My hens (thanks God) always go back to the boxes, but I feed them in thier run first and then I open the doors for them to go free range and thanks god they alwayss go back to the boxes.

Good Luck.

Merry christmas

Omran.