Pullet laid first egg, now is constantly in nesting box?

[Cindosha]

I put golf balls as well as real eggs in the nest boxes, I even put one in the nest box when she went under the box where she has been laying but she just looked at me like "yeah, right" and jumped out, left the coop and pooped her egg out in the run!! Stinker!!

 

[McChooky]

I guess I will have to so I can get them to lay in the boxes!!

Maybe a flap will do over the front of each box? You did a good job of making those!

 

[McChooky]

I use one large community nest thats very private in the back of their coop and everyone of my hens lay there regularly except for my barred rock. Somedays she will lay in the nest box with the others but the next it'll be in the run or coop. I even gave her her own nest box for a while but she did the same so I removed it.They either use the nest boxes or they don't if they're locked up but if they're free ranged they're liable to lay anywhere.Its a game of hide and seek.

 

[Cindosha]

Maybe a flap will do over the front of each box? You did a good job of making those!

Thanks, I will have to think and come up with something to fit over/in front of those baskets!! Maybe that's why they go under the nesting baskets, for privacy.....although my one layer dropped one in the run...coo-coo birds!!

 

[Cindosha]

I use one large community nest thats very private in the back of their coop and everyone of my hens lay there regularly except for my barred rock. Somedays she will lay in the nest box with the others but the next it'll be in the run or coop. I even gave her her own nest box for a while but she did the same so I removed it.They either use the nest boxes or they don't if they're locked up but if they're free ranged they're liable to lay anywhere.Its a game of hide and seek.

Yep, I'm looking all around the run and grassy area to find eggs!!!