So my flock is pretty much laying on a steady schedule now, but I am having some issues with where they are laying. I built a group of roosting boxes, 3 up to, and three floor level. They only seem to be using the floor level ones, but that's not my main problem...although any thoughts on how to get them to use the second tier of boxes would be helpful as well. I currently have tried fake eggs and golf balls in the boxes to get them to start laying in the correct areas, but like I said before, they don't seem to want to use the second tier. My big problem is every few days it seems that I find one of the eggs either in their outside run or just in the middle of the coop. Now I wouldn't really care that they did this if it weren't for the fact that they seem to break them whenever they are not in the roosting boxes.
Any thoughts on what I can do to prevent this or ways of making them utilize all the roosting boxes instead of just the bottom 3?
Any thoughts on what I can do to prevent this or ways of making them utilize all the roosting boxes instead of just the bottom 3?