Moving the fake eggs...

[KaraNChun]

Hi,
This is the first time I have posted. I have 5 19 1/2 week old pullets (2 BO, 1BA, 1 red star and 1 speckled sussex). None have started laying yet but, are showing signs it should be soon. This week they have taken to moving the fake eggs I placed in the nesting boxes out. Is this a good sign they will lay soon?

Thanks!

 

[chickbea]

Probably they are spending some time "practicing" in the nesting boxes, and they are just scootching the fake eggs out with their movements. It shouldn't be long now!

 

[Ol'FashionHen]

I would leave them, my girls have been laying since dec/jan and if I take the fake eggs out of the nest they freak out and act like they don't have anywhere to lay because there is no egg to direct them

... I know silly girls, they will actually wait until someone lays and then they all want to lay in the same spot.

 

[Casey3043]

I used those marble fake eggs because I had a collection of them, and they are so heavy that if I get a hen that can move them, I will enter her in a weight-lifting contest.

Once they got started laying, I removed the marble eggs.

CASEY

 

[KaraNChun]

I keep moving the eggs back into the nesting boxes and today I watched my red star take her beak and move it right back out again. I am hoping she is just making a nice nest for herself to lay!