When can you get rid of Fake eggs

[Bayoucrazy]

I have three chickens about 6 months old and all three are now laying. Can I take out the Easter eggs I used in the nesting boxes now??

 

[sourland]

I'd take them out and if necessary put them back if they stopped laying in the nest boxes.

 

[MGG]

I have three chickens about 6 months old and all three are now laying. Can I take out the Easter eggs I used in the nesting boxes now??

X2 with Sour.
They can come out now if they're all using the boxes well.

 

[aart]

I leave mine in, one on each nest, been there 7 years.

 

[Flockincrazy]

I have three chickens about 6 months old and all three are now laying. Can I take out the Easter eggs I used in the nesting boxes now??

I wish I could help I've never used them

 

[3KillerBs]

I leave mine in, one on each nest, been there 7 years.

I'm still using the same golf balls I had in the coop when I had the in-town flock.

 

[50-45-1]

If you are using Actual Easter Eggs. Like you boiled and colored them, then yes throw them out if they are the plastic hollow ones it's doing no harm to leave them.
Like above posters, I have kept some fashion of fake egg in the nest for many years. Golf balls, plastic eggs and round rocks....

 

[Bayoucrazy]

X2 with Sour.
They can come out now if they're all using the boxes well.

One has laid for past two week. 2nd one week and last one two days

 

[rosemarythyme]

If they're all using the nest boxes with the fakes in place, really no need to potentially upset them by removing them. I removed my fakes once when my birds were around a year old or so, and it was so upsetting for one hen that she just paced back and forth in front of the box until I finally put the fakes back in, and then she immediately went in and laid.