- May 19, 2017
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This spring we purchased 12 chicks of all different types, from naked neck to silkie, and are having a blast raising them. Recently, they have begun laying eggs (June?) and for awhile everything was going smoothly. Our coop has 6 nesting boxes and fake eggs to encourage them to lay inside of the boxes, as well as a general safe area to lay. However, one of our chickens, a golden sex-linked called Mustard, has decided that she doesn’t want to lay in a nesting box and instead lay on the floor or while roosting. I’ve read that one way to stop chickens from doing this is to lock them into the coop to teach them to lay in the boxes, but Mustard lays very early in the morning, around 5, before the door to the coop has been opened. We have no idea how to teach her to lay in the box, and it’s getting annoying trying to hunt down her eggs in the morning. We won’t be killing our chickens so there’s no freezer camp to move her to, but we would love to have her nesting box trained again. Are there any suggestions on how to get her to lay in a box again?