Identify Egg-Laying Problems and Review Coop Design

hey there folks this is josh stoneyridge farmer welcome back to another beautiful day here on the stoney ridge farm we are down here by the chicken coop and by popular request many many of you have asked for this video how do i stop my chickens from pecking my eggs and how do i entice my chickens to lay in their appropriate laying boxes so today is going to be a fun little video we're going to talk to you about preventing your chickens from eating their own eggs and how to entice them to lay in the laying box and not all over your chicken coop so come along let's have some fun all right guys so if you have chickens oftentimes when they first start laying you're gonna run into this problem the same problem i'm having right now the chicken found a corner and laid an egg right here the reason it did that is because of me not because of the chicken so we've got to make a nice habitable place for our chickens to lay their eggs come over here and i'll show you what we do welcome to the stoney ridge farm this is your first time here please pound that like button jump in subscribe the channel i'd love to have you back this is what i call the perfect chicken coop okay it's built on a four by eight platform i'll post a link to the chicken coop build at the end of this video if you're curious about how this thing is made i don't have plans for it you're gonna have to use your imagination i'm sure if you've got chickens you've got an imagination for sure so what we have is an outside laying box area here and we've got some young birds these birds are somewhere around the six to nine month age range and they're just now starting to lay eggs when they first start to lay eggs they don't know what the heck it is and they don't know where the heck to lay them so you've got to build a hospitable area for your chickens to lay their eggs let's show you ours this is an outside nesting box