The Poultry Keeper

Sylvia · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:47 am Post subject: Dummy Eggs question

My 2 new hens are not using the nestboxes, I found 1 egg broken on the coop floor yesterday and another one today, intact this time, on the coop floor.

I don't seem to be able to find any of the false eggs, could I use real eggs. blow them and fill them with something, if so what and do they have to be a certain weight?

Kitsune · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 1402 Location: Manchester

You can use golf balls if you have any around - if not blown eggs filled with something to make them more solid should be fine - weight is not important I think it's just something vaguely egg shaped in the nest they need.

crazypianolady · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 756 Location: Nottinghamshire

Or try a vaguely egg shaped stone or two. It worked for mine!

vanessa · Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 1267 Location: Correze

Almost anything vaguely resembling an egg can work.

Good luck, Sylvia!

BTW, did Billy No Mates accept the ladies OK?

Sylvia · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:53 am Post subject:

Thank you all for your replies. I did manage to find some wooden ones yesterday, it was me being stupid, I should have known that dummy eggs are not kept on the shelves in the poultry section but are with the horsey stuff and electric fencing section Exclamation

After alll that I needn't have bothered, when I went down to put them in the nest boxes there were 2 eggs one in each nest box, but I did put them in just in case the forget.

CP · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:06 am Post subject:

Glad they realised what the nest boxes are for! Very Happy

vanessa · Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 1267 Location: Correze