They have to know. They just have too. You should be in good shape for eggs now. CongratsFunny thread. I was egg waiting too. Bought a dozen eggs, complained to a neighbor that my hens laid zero eggs so far and she sent me home with another dozen from her hens. Three people in my family and two dozen eggs. Next day my first egg. Day after two more. Day 3 another and have 2 more singing the egg song. I'm sure if I didn't have any eggs the stupid chickens would still be holding out.
Sixteen eggs plus some yolks? It would take me two weeks to make one of those
If you can't beat em, join em. So nobody wants to stay in the coop to lay...they want to lay on the poarch, maybe they are telling me to clear out the stuff I have stacked there...the last spot was on the top of about ten layers of insulation..they made a nice hole in the paper backing and enjoyed watching me through the kitchen window while laying an egg...unfortunately they scratched too deep and the eggs rolled out to smash on the window sill. They persist in that area...maybe it's cooler there, and away from activity. After watching one rooster squeese out from under a stack of trim lumber boking it a suitable spot, I went and got a nest box and tucked it in the corner...wahla! She just laid an egg.
