ceramic, rubber or other dummy eggs?

[loving_allsorts]

I'm about to buy a few dummy eggs and wondered if there is any reference to the sort. What are people's opinions?

Cheers

Mark

 

[podstable]

To keep a broody sitting I let her sit on a couple of real eggs or I have some old china pot eggs that I got from a junk shop! But I find once they are broody they will sit on nothing! Our local agricultural store had a load of freebie rubber eggs -giving away to advertise a certain wormer-I dont the chickens would notice the ad. on them!Ros

 

[loving_allsorts]

'But I find once they are broody they will sit on nothing!'

I'm a newbie so did you mean it's not worth buying them or did you mean to type they will sit on anything? My chickens are POL's and I'm trying to encourage them to lay. and to lay from the word gp in the shed rather than the mud

You still think anything egg shaped will do?

Cheers

Mark

 

[Anonymous]

Hello
Welcome to the forum!

I've heard of people giving hens golf balls to sit on and that did the trick.

I haven't tried it myself but I'm planning on picking some up at the next car boot sale and give them a go. I've got hens laying under my trailer, under the bantams house and even in the bantams house. They don't lay in their own house anymore. I've put some nesting boxes in but they haven't taken the hint yet. I don't see many ceramic eggs (or ceramic hens!) in the local shops so golf balls it is!

Osric

 

[Anonymous]

Um,if you go for a walk on a golf course,there are usually loads of golf balls off course in surrounding grass and rough.You can just pick them up,obviously not if a golfer is actually looking for it,but my local golf club is littered with balls that have been lost and never picked up.

 

[Lucylou]

Not sure if it works, don't know if it would be too fragile but I've heard you can blow a hen's egg & use this as a dummy.

 

[podstable]

Sorry LA----I misunderstood. I thought you meant dummy eggs to use with a broody/keep her sitting!!! I meant that once they have gone broody mine sit there even with no eggs under them!!! I think yours will start laying once age,type,weather,daylight hours are condusive to doing so , I am not convinced that dummy eggs will make them mature any more quickly-Sorry for confusion! Ros

 

[Anonymous]

Um,if you go for a walk on a golf course,there are usually loads of golf balls off course in surrounding grass and rough.You can just pick them up,obviously not if a golfer is actually looking for it,but my local golf club is littered with balls that have been lost and never picked up.

Or yes, vou could just nick some from the local golf course...


Lydia, you are a bad girl. Early bed for you and no supper!

 

[loving_allsorts]

I'm sure you a right, I'm just impatient!

BUT I have some white golf balls. I'll be planting one of those in there. Hopefully, when the time comes she'll be thinking.. Hang on!!! I've seen one of these elsewhere... where was that? OH YES! In my nest box! I think I'll lay the rest there.

That's the plan anyway! I'll give he another few weeks and then if nothing it'll be fresh chicken curry :lol:

Thanks for the ideas guys.

Mark

 

[Anonymous]

Um,if you go for a walk on a golf course,there are usually loads of golf balls off course in surrounding grass and rough.You can just pick them up,obviously not if a golfer is actually looking for it,but my local golf club is littered with balls that have been lost and never picked up.

Or yes, vou could just nick some from the local golf course...


Lydia, you are a bad girl. Early bed for you and no supper!

LOL,bad girls have more fun........... :lol:

 

[Tim]

In a new house, I use dummy eggs to show the girls where to lay sometimes.

Occasionally I put them in a couple of different boxes as they have a habbit of piling in to the same nestbox to lay.... 3 hens to a nestbox isn't that comfortable I'm sure :roll:

As said earlier, this time of year, most purebreeds and many hybrids won't be laying. Come the spring, you should have eggs though.