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alsykes2000
Chirping
I spend a good amount of time outside with them in my garden everyday and they follow me around. I know when they go back to the coop, and then the egg song. There’s only 8 of them. I have their timing down, not because I’m focused on it, but because I’m outside almost all day, every day. My chickens are very habitual. I have a couple more Easter eggers (one lays a large oblong green egg, the other lays a medium sized baby blue egg) the others are speckled welsummer eggs. Also, one of my welsummers announces every egg that they all lay, and every time one of them is in the box….Do you think they are not laying because you are not getting any blue/green eggs? Not all EE lay them.
It can take more than a day here and there.
Free range birds sometimes need to be 'trained'(or re-trained) to lay in the coop nests, especially new layers. Leaving them locked in the coop/run for a week or so can help 'home' them to lay in the coop nests. Fake eggs/golf balls in the nests can help 'show' them were to lay. They can be confined to coop and maybe run 24/7 for a few days to a week, provided you have adequate space and ventilation, or confine them at least until mid to late afternoon. You help them create a new habit and they will usually stick with it. ..at least for a good while, then repeat as necessary.
she’s extremely loud .