Happy Hen Treats Ceramic Nest Eggs

My 8 new young laying hen flock needed some training to get them accustomed to using their nest boxes. They looked in at these eggs and even practiced sitting on them. I have 4 nest boxes, so I moved the eggs every couple of days to different boxes so they would get the idea that they could use any box. Once they started to lay, I kept moving them around between boxes for a few weeks before I removed them. They are currently with my chicken supplies and will most likely get more use when I rotate out this flock in a few years for young birds.

We are not sure if the hens are being tricked by these eggs, but the humans have collected them several times because they can't tell the difference.

Look real.... I use in a wire hen basket as a decoration

So realistic even the snake ate them! I thought I was going crazy when my ceramic eggs disappeared out of the nesting boxes... after a bit of investigating, I had 2 huge rat snakes in the coop I knew nothing about. Thanks to these fake eggs, I was able to save a lot more of our real eggs before the predators ate them. Oh and the reason I purchased them to begin with, my hens were all fighting over 1 nesting box, when they had 3 perfectly other ones sitting empty. I placed one of these in each empty box, and by the end of the afternoon on the first day, all 9 hens were happy in all available boxes. I also had one Buff Orpington that keeps breaking open and eating her fresh egg each day... I haven’t seen any broken eggs since I started using these. (Although, the snakes were also a surprise!)

Wow they look & feel just like real eggs !