🐣 Ceramic Nest Eggs for Happy Hens Review

I bought this product to help my new hens learn to lay eggs in nests. I had to put my initials on the bottom of the fake eggs because they mistook us for real ones based on visual distinction. By the way, I also had problems with black rat snakes coming into my chicken coop to eat eggs. I've removed two on two separate occasions just waiting to find another snake in there. Instead, I miss the artificial egg. I don't like the idea that the guilty snake died, but I'm more upset that I hatched…

These are awesome artificial eggs and they look very real. I highly recommend putting a label on them as when my husband sometimes collects eggs he almost always brings them because he can't tell they are fake. Now we've tagged them and it's stopped. We first placed them in nesting boxes to encourage girls to lay themselves in boxes rather than in odd places like chicken coop corners. After the girls started laying normally in the boxes I pulled a fake egg from one of the nest boxes (we have 3)

I love these ceramic frames. My hens had the hardest time figuring out where to lay their eggs and they just laid them in the middle of the coop and got trampled on by all the hens. Those eggs were a godsend. The next day, they immediately started laying directly on top of these new eggs. From time to time the chicks try to steal one from the nest, they also have to believe that they are real. I can tell with certainty which ones are fake and which ones are not. However, I don't have any brown…

Our hens are just starting to lay eggs and the first hen was very stubborn about laying eggs. Nest boxes are (we thought) the perfect size, location and position in the barn. However, this particular hen decided that random locations in the coop itself were fine. After about a week of daily egg hunts I attempted to lay a couple of these artificial eggs in one of the birdhouses and when I saw her getting ready to lay down on the floor of the coop I opened the birdhouses from the outside and…

I originally got a dummy egg from my farm to add to the bird eggs to play around with my better half. However, they were not realistic enough. I'm happy to report what it is! First, they are slightly lighter than real eggs. Just enough to notice. The real test - I put one of those "eggs" in the boxes for laying hens. It was accidentally picked up and placed in an egg basket. Now the waiting game has begun. I've been staring at this ticking time bomb of joy on the counter for days. One morning I

I was skeptical that chickens needed an artificial egg to encourage laying. For years I never had these fake eggs and didn't think I would need them. But now I'm a lot smarter! Firstly, I have new young hens who have not yet started laying. They were old enough to lay eggs, but they didn't go to bed week after week. (My older hens molted so no one laid.) After the fake eggs were laid in the aviary, the younger hens figured it out within a day or two! At that moment, all three began to rush…