Laying From Roost Pole -- Help

Well I can't help you with the one laying from the roost.... but when one of our girls started laying she chose a corner of the coop. After a couple eggs there, I placed a big watering can in the corner, and lifted her into the nest box as couple times a day for a couple of days, to show her the fake egg that's in there (we have a wooden egg from the craft store in the nests) so she'd get the idea. The next day she was visibly distressed about the watering can being in her nest area, and madea big fuss. But she finally laid in the nest box and continued to do so even after I removed the watering can the next week.

Good luck!

P.S. We did have one hen lay on the roost, an adopted big fat Buff Orpington who has a really hard time getting down off the roost. I think it was just too much trouble for her to get down! Anyway she's stopped laying now (that was her last egg a few weeks ago..) and I don't know it it's because she's doing a really slow molt or because she's stressed about getting down from the roost. We're building her a ramp tomorrow, we'll see if that helps!

 

One of my hens did that once (lay from the roost). Don't know what brought it on or why it never happened since.
My theory is she had the equivalent of a wet dream and laid an egg while she slept.

 

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