nesting boxies VS chickens

[DaKid]

ok I have 4 nesting boxing but seem like the top two are always getting use now I have two brookey hens sitting on eggs all the rest of the layers hens want to lay there eggs in the same 2 top nesting boxing and no one wants to lay in the 2 bottom boxies , what am I to do it's hard to tell the fresh eggs layed to the one's that been sitting on ..........

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Get a marker or a pen or something and mark all the eggs that the broodies are setting on, then if somebody lays an egg in their box you know which ones they're setting on and which ones aren't.

 

[rubyrogue]

Take a pencil and mark the eggs they have been sitting on. Take out all unmarked eggs everyday leaving only the ones they have been sitting on. Do you have "dummy" eggs in the other to boxes to entice them to lay there? I have to keep at least one dummy egg in each box or they all lay in the same one.

 

[DaKid]

Thanks I was thinking of that about marking the eggs but the hens well there crazy and try to bite me and iI didn't want them to be spook off the sitting eggs and nesting boxes , I do that in da morning and mark them
thanks ya'll

 

[rubyrogue]

The other thing is if you have a dog kennel or some other way to seperate them. Make it all nice and comfy with a nest and at NIGHT move the eggs and the hen. Night because they don't fight as much and are more likey to stay broody.

 

[MareeZoCool]

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Sneak in there while that sitting hen takes her "potty break" (that was my only chance near the eggs)

 

[MiniBeesKnees]

When my Old English go broody and settle on eggs...I don't think dynamite would get them off of them.