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Post by nightmist on Jan 2, 2009 12:08:51 GMT -5
As a result of a discussion about darning eggs that morphed, here I am posting a poultry question.
Who here is a believer in the worth of china eggs?
The false eggs you put in nest boxes.
We always put them out when I was a kid, so the chickens would get the idea to lay where we wanted them too.
Now I find that a fair few people think it a worthless thing.
My own thought is that there are always a couple of chickens in the flock that will lead you a merry chase no matter what, but if a glass egg gets one of them to lay in the right place your work is cut in half.
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Post by grungy on Jan 2, 2009 18:29:19 GMT -5
I assume you are free ranging your chickens rather than confined caging. If so then the china eggs do help convince the ladies where they should lay.
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Post by flowerpower on Jan 3, 2009 6:11:10 GMT -5
I use a dark blue plastic egg. But when they first started to lay this yr, I used eggs from the adult hens too. My ducks can't get into the nest boxes, so they have a lil spot in the corner. I find at least 4 chicken eggs there every day along with the 3 duck eggs.
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jan 3, 2009 16:05:41 GMT -5
At first I thought this was going to be a discussion about getting Sphinxeyes to smuggle fertile eggs back from Hong Kong! 
I have gotten probably an 80/20 split on advice for and against these faux eggs... there are a few people who have told me that their chickens avoid laying where there are eggs in the nest already, but those are probably freaky birds.
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Post by flowerpower on Jan 6, 2009 5:33:41 GMT -5
I only have one faux egg for 11 nest boxes. The birds always lay eggs in that box. And they never toss the blue one out.
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