Nesting boxes

[Thesweetbirdsflock]

we have too identical nesting boxes, but all 3 chickens will ONLY use what’s come to be called the “preferred nesting box”. So, every morning/afternoon there’s a bunch of squabbling over that one box because they all have to lay at the same time. Just wondering if there is any way to get them to use the other one also. The pic is Susannah (Rhode Island Red) nesting on top of poor Samantha (Barrad Rock) in a struggle for the preferred nesting box.

 

[azygous]

Salt the other nest with an egg or a fake egg. Hens have a driving urge to lay their eggs where they see another hen has just laid one.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I have 2 golf balls per nest. One nest is more preferred but we get eggs in all three nests.