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Egg Posts: 7 15/06/2009 22:37:40	Tags : None Got 10 Lohmanns on Sunday they are about 20 weeks old & have started laying. We got 9 eggs today but they are laying everywhere. I kept them in the house till 10 oclock this morning 3 had laid in the nest boxes 3 had laid on the house floor & 3 under the house outside. We have to catch them at night to put them in the house as they will not climb the ladder themselves. How can we get them to lay in the house nest boxes. I dont want to lock them up all day in this hot weather to teach them to use the nest boxes Any ideas??? Heres the homemade house & Run tnx in advance Bison......
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Bellbird07		#1	[url]	[-]
Well Loved Chook Posts: 1364 15/06/2009 23:09:41 Broody	Hi there Bison1947. Well at least they are laying well! I think maybe as you have 10, would there be enough nesting boxes to meet their needs? I think I would have at least 5, but maybe you do have enough. As for the not going in at night - they are simple birds and do need help to understand they must go to bed! Its early days yet, and maybe they are not used to their new home - I think its just a case of perseverance and they will eventually learn...As long as their run (great place you have made for them) is predator proof, I would not worry too much. Yes keep them in as long as poss. It may even help to have some plastic fake eggs to put in their nesting boxes to show thats where eggs belong. Sorry not a great help, but I think with a bit of time they will learn. Good luck! PS. As soon as you see eggs in places other than the nesting box remove them quick so they dont get any ideas to lay more there!
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Cluckerz		#2	[url]	[-]
Well Loved Chook Posts: 6344 16/06/2009 01:45:33 Top Hen	Bell has given you excellent advice. Keep them in later in the mornings, put fake eggs (golf balls will work even) in the nest boxes, and remove eggs from the wrong places quickly if possible. My ladies would lay where ever they dang well pleased no matter what I did to entice them...up in trees, in long grass, under the coop, etc. Drove me mad. As far as going to bed...you may have to wait till dusk hours to go out there and march them all in. Put a little cracked corn or other treat at the top of the ladder and inside the door. They will soon learn where home is and then you shouldn't have many problems, as long as you remember they do not go in until it gets dark. Trying to force it earlier is only going to frustrate you. Congrats on your flock. It looks like a great coop an run area. I hope they bring you so much pleasure and delight! "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as real strength." - Ralph W. Sockman
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thewinkingtiger		#3	[url]	[-]
Well Loved Chook Posts: 7593 17/06/2009 00:10:22	Hi Bison! Lohmans are notoriously terrible for laying in all the wrong places! lol. But as the other girls have suggested once the get used to laying in one place they should start returning to that place. It maybe an idea to cordon off a smaller run area at first (rather than locking them in the hutch) to encourage laying in the right place. With regards them going to bed. One of the best tricks I got was to get one of those battery powered click on lights. Put it on the inside of the coop and put it on just as it is getting dusk and they will gravitate towards it. Also if you do find them roosting outside of the hutch - don't just put them in - instead but them at the bottom of the ladder or door entrance and make them walk in themselves. Hope that helps - and let us know how you get on! Debs x *No matter what you do to me, I will not give you the power to make me hate.*
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bison1947	Update	#4	[url]	[-]
Egg Posts: 7 22/06/2009 16:27:12	Well thanks for the advice. A week on & all the birds are laying in the nest boxes now ,we used a couple of toy yellow eggs in the boxes seemed to of worked. As far a going in the house when its nearly dark all but one are tucked away so we are getting there. Oh we are getting 10 eggs a day & are starting to get bigger by the day. Again thank you for the advice. Bison...
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thewinkingtiger		#5	[url]	[-]
Well Loved Chook Posts: 7593 22/06/2009 22:54:29	Hi Bison That's great news!!! Glad to hear thngs are so much more hassle free - and you are getting a good suppy of eggs aswell! Enjoy every minute of it! Debs x *No matter what you do to me, I will not give you the power to make me hate.*
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Cluckerz		#6	[url]	[-]
Well Loved Chook Posts: 6344 23/06/2009 00:23:55 Top Hen	Very good! Glad they have figured out where the nest boxes are and what they are for. Just takes a little nudging from time to time to remind everyone. One little troublemaker wanting to stay out at night isn't bad at all! Your doing good. Or should I say the ladies are doing good. So, have you seen which one decided to be top hen yet? Figure out which one is the serious one, and which one is the goofy one? Their personalities should be blossoming by now for you. "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as real strength." - Ralph W. Sockman
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