This is your new coop...now lay eggs in it! Pretty Please!?!?!?!

[JAZsMom]

We have a new coop for our hens- with our chicks. They get along quite well, the chicks are scared out of their minds, but it's going well. The hens old coop was supposed to be picked up today, but it wasn't (the hens are on night 3 in their new coop). I set up their 4 nests, complete with fake eggs, but they keep running back to their old cool to lay. Suggestions? Thinking about leaving everyone in their coop until the hens have laid tomorrow??

 

[Happy Chooks]

Lock them in their new coop for a few days so they know where home is.

 

[RonP]

Yes, they are going to have to relearn where home is.

It will be much easier once the old home is gone.

 

[JAZsMom]

Well, their old house left Friday morning and they freaked. No eggs, but we got 3 our of the two girls the next day (I'm quite sure one was in the evening after we locked them up). One of them is fine laying in the morning, but one is still fighting the new coop, but eventually lays in the afternoon. Thanks, guys!