Cube mk2 and WIR

[Twiglet]

First day for the chooks in their cube.

Lily has laid ok in the nest but just going round the garden poop-scooping as they've been out all day and I've found an egg off Bluebell in the flower bed.

 

Any ideas how I can get her to lay in the new nest box?

I thought she'd have watched Lily and learnt that way??

[ballgunner]

i bought a rubber egg and put it in there and soon after there was 2 eggs next to it so any thing circular will do

[chrisnrob]

i bought a rubber egg and put it in there and soon after there was 2 eggs next to it so any thing circular will do

 

You can get some very convincing rubber eggs from National Trust shops

 

Rob

[Snowy]

Hi Twiglet! Good to meet you and OH on Sunday!

 

I've just moved my campine into a different eglu and she's laid in the shrub border ever since. Today I was ready for her, she was desperate to get out of the run and lay so very meanly I shut her in the eglu. Kept checking and she was happily sat on the nest and subsequently produced her egg. I just hope she'll remember the lesson tomorrow!

[Sue and the Spice Girls]

I was given 2 pot (china) eggs, bought from the local feed shop at £1.50, and the girls have only ever laid thier first egg in the wrong place, after that they're all in the nest box. I think the first ones came as a bit of a suprise to them!

[Guest]

We thought Rose had stopped laying, as we hadn't had an egg for over a week

 

Last Friday Dan was in the garden and found half a dozen under the hedge by the pond.

 

I don't think she likes the newbies sharing her nesting box