[Carolinamom]

When I was 6-7yo, my "job" was to gather the eggs. I vividly remember being pecked by an old setting hen that was determined to be a mother hen.

At my grandpa's I gathered his eggs from troughs in his barn. He fooled his hens into laying their eggs there by having old white door knobs in the nests. lol

[Two Thirds Vote Aye]

LOL! My Grandpa never tried the doorknob trick, as best as I can remember, although he was one that might have done it and I never knew it. They lived several hours from us and I only got to spend a few weeks every summer with Grandma and Grandpa.

[gulfcoast6]

I got me some plastic Easter eggs, put one in each laying box, they will move the around with their beaks to set on it lie OK, maybe a move This way will work. It DOES fool them and they will lay.