[pottsie]

I am getting about 4 eggs a day from the girls now and just take them out each day without much of a thought. I read recently on the site someone who placed pot eggs in so the hens kept laying and even one person who used golf balls. Do these really work and if so what is the benefit?

Thanks Rob .

[harry]

if you take all the eggs away ducks. geese will definatly lay somewhere else and you have to find the nest, hens may do the same so you leave a china egg in its nest, i recently got about 10 alabaster and wooden  eggs from a charity shop multi coloured but it doesnt matter........... also if you have a broody but not enough eggs (12) for it to sit on you put the false eggs or golf balls under it to sit on for a few days and swop for 12 fertile eggs when you have enough so they hatch all togther

[pottsie]

Thanks Harry thats great, i will have to get some.

Rob .

[Rosemary]

Never used them - apart from one hen, I don't think they lay anywhere else.

[doganjo]

Well Sandy found a treasure trove of duck eggs recently, and I had a hen lay 7 eggs against a hedge instead of in their nest box

[northfifeduckling]

as I said in the other thread - the marble ones (charity shop) work particularly well. It must have to do with the shape. The white clay ( from the Highland Show) eggs are ignored by the ducks after only a few days and they get back to their old ways - hiding them in the garden!
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[shetlandpaul]

the kids keep finding new! nests and mixing the eggs in. a bit annoying as they all then have to go. we sell to shops so we can't risk it. the cocks are all fighting and the geese are hishing so spring is nearly here well in a month or two. the orst is stepping on some really old ones.

[harry]

i found about 50 in the long grass once , all chucked away.

[pottsie]

Got my pot eggs (actually solid rubber) delivered this morning and have placed them in the normal laying boxes hoping to get a few more eggs. Will keep you updated.

Rob .