Lockdown!

[sheetmetalpete]

My free ranging girls have taken advantage of their free ranging. Egg production has gone down over the last few days. Yesterday I found one nest behind some shrubs next to my house. I caught two different hens taking advantage of that particular next.

In order to "get their minds right", they're in lockdown in their coop & run. How long should I confine them so they remember where to lay? I was thinking three days. Is that enough?

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Good luck. Some hens never learn I free range most of my birds and more then half lay eggs all over the yard. I go egg hunting everyday.

 

[sheetmetalpete]

I hope I can break them. Mine spend a lot of time in the woods & brush to complicate egg hunting.

 

[equinelyn]

We started letting our hens free roam and eggs stopped showing up in the nest. Well a week or so later we found a nest of like 30 of them!!! We just started keeping the girls in until about noon. They usually have laid by then.