Experiment Update:
The experiment is over.
I was late getting up this morning (my LO [little one] had me up twice last night and in between that, his pup had us out of bed with flashlights looking all over the backyard for whatever she was barking her head off at, ugh). So, not enough sleep makes for a late start in the a.m. and bored chickens b/c we have to let the dogs run around before we let the chickens out (or the dogs will be running around after the chickens. lol)
Anyway, I went out there and found the bottom nesting box severely disheveled. Half the golf balls were
in the top of the nesting material and digging around for the other 3, I found a brown egg; after a fair amount of more digging around in the straw (all the way down to dirt) I found the other three g. balls. I floated the egg and it's good, but it will be used next, b/c IDK when it was laid.
The only guess I can make is that two hens wanted to lay at the same time and a Comet won.
This evening I found another brown egg in the bottom nesting box, so...
Egg Count: 2 brown; 0 white (Those Leghorns better get busy or else!!!)