Silence Is Not Golden Here

Ash is a good girl, and a fast learner, apparently. Day before yesterday was her first egg, and she laid it on the coop floor between two of the nest boxes... today was egg two, and when I went out earlier she was tucked into the dresser I turned into a nest box. Just checked again, and she laid her egg in it. Perfect blue egg, a couple grams lighter than the last one, but without any blood smear - the first had a small blood smear.
 
Ash is a good girl, and a fast learner, apparently. Day before yesterday was her first egg, and she laid it on the coop floor between two of the nest boxes... today was egg two, and when I went out earlier she was tucked into the dresser I turned into a nest box. Just checked again, and she laid her egg in it. Perfect blue egg, a couple grams lighter than the last one, but without any blood smear - the first had a small blood smear.
Lucky you! I have eight hens. One of them lays reliably in the nesting box. My old Welsummer hen. She doesn't lay a ton anymore, but at least she does get them in the box.
I have a two story wood cat house on my deck, each with a little deck off it. The bantams fight over the bottom story and they all lay in there.
One of my Easter egger hens lays in the woods behind the wood pile. My second EE hen laid her first green egg today. It was behind a bale of straw under the deck. I've given up trying to get them to lay in the box. I just watch where they go when they burst out of the coop in the morning.
 

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