My girls were born in Feb/March and so I expected them to start laying about August. And true to that they laid the first egg on August 18th. They steadily produced one to two a day then 3 and are now up to 4 sometimes 5 in one day. This means that not every hen is laying an egg a day but hey, I am thrilled to go egg hunting each day just to see what is there.
We built 3 nest boxes as we were told that up to two or three chickens might occupy the same nest box at one time so 3 it was. But...after about a week or two of only getting eggs in the left hand nest and none in the other two it made me wonder what was up.
After talking to some folks who were raised on a farm, they advised me to put a fake egg or golf ball or ping pong ball in each nest and that would encourage them to lay there. I had some nice wooden eggs that I had picked up in Germany some many years ago and so I placed one in each of the other two nest boxes. The next day..an egg was laid in one of them. Maybe this worked or maybe the nest was occupied and so one of the girls finally went "next door" When you gotta lay, you gotta lay I guess!
Next...Pick a little, talk a little, cheep, cheep, cheep, talk and lot, pick a little more!
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