Where did your girls lay their first eggs?

[ksmama97]

We didn't have next boxes yet. (DH hadn't gotten to it yet)

I found a nest of 5 eggs underneath an overturned kiddie pool. It has a slide so it sat cockeyed a bit and there was space for the hens to scoot under.

 

[schmoo]

My good girls started in the nest boxes. There are 6 boxes all the same size and same height but I usually only find eggs in 2 of them. 3 or 4 eggs in one box, must be their favorites.

 

[redwa]

Ours started laying under the nesting boxes (they are raised), the space in the coop furthest from the door and where they could watch the activity and feel secure. I covered the area under the nesting boxes so they couldn't lay there and put the eggs in the boxes to show them. They eventually figured it out. We have 7 nesting boxes but they only like to lay in just one. Sometimes I will go in there and find two hens stuffed into one box, laying their eggs! We have some new pullets who haven't started laying yet (19 weeks), and I am curious to see what they are going to do.

 

[Dawn419]

Our Banty Mottled Cochins started laying at 19 and a half weeks old...in the nest boxes. I'm so proud of them! I do walk around in the run a few times a day just to make sure that no one is laying in there, just incase!

Dawn

 

[ZuniBee]

I found my first three in the nest box...two in one box and another one in another. The next day I found two eggs outside and three in the nest boxes. Since then, all have been in the nest boxes.

 

[Southern28Chick]

Nest boxes.