Java not a box

[mcurry47]

I have a 19 week Java that has laid her first two eggs, both on the roosting stick. They fell to their doom. How do I get her to move into the nesting box?

 

[ADozenGirlz]

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New layers often do that. It's as if they're not aware of what is going on with the first several eggs. If you haven't put a fake egg or a golf ball in your nesting boxes yet, you might try that. If you free-range your chickens and are concerned that she will lay her eggs in the yard, etc., you could keep her confined to the coop and run for a week or so until she gets the idea that the nest box is the place to make her deposits.

 

[theoldchick]

I had a few hens who preferred to lay eggs in a box located near the roost. I think they liked the height.