laying outside

[fratmor]

I have one chicken who lays outside . Is there a way of finding out who it is and getting it to lay inside and into a nest box? Its a brown egg but most of the girls I have lay brown eggs

 

[Ridgerunner]

When mine do that, I lock the entire flock in the coop and run for several days to break the habit of them laying outside. It really helps to find the nest, remove all eggs, and maybe mess up the area she's laying in so it does not look like such a safe place to lay.

I usually have success after about three days, but my only green egg layer was doing that recently so it was easy to know when she had layed. I left them locked up until she finished. I tried it three days. Did not work. I tried it about a week. Did not work. I tried it another week. She finally got the message. Now another one is doing it, a brown egg layer and probably one of the pullets that is just starting. I can't tell when she has done her duty, but here we go again.

It really does not happen that often, but sometimes things just happen.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

this may sound silly, but I like to find a nest outside by accident sometimes. It gives me joy....but unfortunately my chickens now are kept in the hen house with a run because of the dogs in the area... loss too many like that.

 

[fratmor]

I don't like finding them out side because their feet are muddy and the egg gets rolled around it giving me a muddy egg.I like collecting nice clean eggs from their boxs that don't need cleaning.