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Best Nest Box - Rollaway Nest Box - Community Style

This egg saving nest box easily converts to either a front or rear rollaway. The bottom egg tray...
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Pros: The eggs roll away as they should. I helps deter hens from pecking and eating the eggs. The thing is sturdy.
Cons: When you have aggressive, older hens, they tend to take longer while keeping others out. This creates a traffic jam in hens waiting for their turn.
We bought a house already supplied with laying hens. Inside their coop was one of these boxes. The thing looks like it might be near a decade old from two owners ago and has some wear and tear, but it's still in great working condition.

We know others who are battling chickens eating their own eggs. And once hens get a taste for them, it's hard to stop them. With this, we've noticed a pecked hole on the occasional egg. They try for whatever reason while it's probably stuck at their feet, but I guess it rolls away before they can penetrate the membrane and get to the good stuff. It doesn't happen again for another month or two.

The problem is that one of these girls is on the older side. I've noticed it takes her a little longer to get her egg out, but she doesn't want the others in the box with her while she's working the egg through. It's the largest box, but the only box, and the community laying style allows her to "defend" one end to the other. It creates a bit of a traffic jam.
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Pros: easy to move. No pros if the hens don't use them.
Cons: Hens don't lay in them
We had them in the coop for about two weeks now. We tried doing the various suggestions to get the hens to use the boxes,but no success. We have RR Reds and Gold Stars. They lay them everywhere but in the box. I'm thinking it doesn't look natural to them so they are reluctant to use it for laying. Some walk around in it,but they never actually lay in it. If this keeps up, it's a waste of money. Sounds like a nice idea,but if the hens aren't comfortable with it, the human idea doesn't matter. We have used the plastic one that you screw to the wall and the hens used those on day one.

We'll try a little longer, but if they don't catch on soon, I'm afraid we wasted our money. When I look for any videos, I don't see any with them in actual use. There is one video with a bunch of hens standing in it, but they are not sitting as if they are laying eggs.
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