Mrs

[Marinah0]

We've had our first egg from the new flock! I'm totally amazed that it was laid in the nest box though, as it's been blocked up to stop the over night pooing in there. Id put a cardboard box in front of the hole into the nest box which had stopped them from all getting in there every night. Id taken out the straw and left a couple of sheets of newspaper in there just in case anyone managed to squeeze in. Whoever laid today has squeezed in there somehow and shredded up the newspaper into a nest and laid a very clever first egg! (I'd been checking under the bush in their WIR expecting the first egg there)

 

Now we have a girl laying I've unblocked the nest box, has anyone got any suggestions for keeping them out oc there overnight? I won't always be up first thing to unblock it and never had this problem with my old girls?

[sage]

I block the hole to the nesting box about 30 mins before they go to bed then unblock it an hour or so later. Once they are settled they don't tend to move much so they stay put.

Sage

[Marinah0]

Thank you- seems to have worked!