nest egg

[miki.wright]

My cochin has started laying eggs--all over the yard instead of the nest boxes. Can I use a hard boiled egg for a nest egg? I want to hurry and encourage her to use the nest box and it tales a week or two to get wood or ceramic eggs.

 

[sherrydeanne]

Michaels has wooden eggs, if you have one close by. I'd opt for a rock shaped the right way or a golf ball before I put real eggs out there, but that's just me.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Do you have any golf balls? I wouldn't use a hard boiled egg, if they pecked at it they might like it.

 

[cheeps]

I'd be afraid they would peck the egg and get the good stuff inside, and start pecking all the eggs. Get a wooden egg from a craft store or like new2chooks said, golf balls.

 

[miki.wright]

Thanks for the help! I guess I will have to try to get to the burbs and see if I can find some fakes. I went to Michaels, but they were out. The farm store didn't have any. Maybe sculpey?

 

[valreegrl]

I have ping pong balls in mine.

However, they haven't begun to lay so not sure how it will work.
Just throwing out an idea!

 

[Uppity Peon]

My girls haven't laid an egg yet but I have salted my proposed nest bock with a golf ball, a tennis ball, and a wallnut.

 

[miki.wright]

While I was busy trying to figure out what to do, making Sculpey eggs and dithering, my hen, Bette, got in the nest box on her own and laid an egg...

 

[sfw2]

Yay, Bette!

 

[onedozenphyllises]

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