Happy Hen TreatsCeramic Nest Eggs, Brown

These are great fake eggs and look very real. I strongly recommend you put some kind of mark on them as my hubby, when he sometimes gathers eggs, almost always brings these up too because he can't tell they're fake. We've now marked them and that has stopped.We initally put these in the nest boxes to encourage the girls to lay in the boxes instead of random odd places like the corners of the coop. Once the gals were laying fine in the boxes I removed the fake egg from one of the nest boxes (we have 3) and noticed that after than none of the girls would go lay in that box! I replaced it, and after about a week they started laying in that box again, so even with girls who've been laying awhile, there's something that draws them in to use the nest if an egg is already there.

I'm honestly not sure why I purchased these, I was hoping it would stop hens from picking at eggs I guess. I think it's helped the issue a lot, it's certainly encouraged them to use lay boxes they weren't otherwise using and if nothing else that lack of crowding in one box has helped keep eggs from breaking. Anyway, I would buy them again, they work well and look enough like real eggs I had to draw a line around them to keep from accidentally collecting them so they would make for a great prop.

I was skeptical about whether hens needed a fake egg to inspire them to lay. For years I never had these fake eggs and didn't think I would need them. BUT I am much wiser now!First, I had new young hens who had not started laying yet. They were old enough to lay but week after week, they would not lay. (My elder hens had molted so nobody was laying.) After placing the fake eggs in the nesting box, the young hens figured it out within a day or two! All three started laying at that point.Secondly, now that all 5 of my hens are laying, I figured the fake eggs were unnecessary, so I took them out of the coop and set them aside. But with 5 laying hens, only two nesting boxes can get crowded sometimes. One day I realized that one hen was squawking up a storm and it seemed to be because the "preferred" nesting box was occupied. Why doesn't she just use that other nesting box, I wondered! It's identical and yet she won't go in there and lay her darn egg! So I tossed a fake egg into the "other" empty nesting box. That did the trick! She went right in and laid her egg! So having an egg in the box really does make a difference to some hens!Lastly, I've noticed that the hens will go to great effort to move the fake eggs from one nesting box to the other. I put one fake egg in each nesting box and a hen will spend 20 minutes moving a fake egg from one box to the other. OK. So I tried putting only one fake egg out -- in the less preferred box. On this day ALL 5 HENS laid their egg in that ONE nesting box because they all wanted to lay where there were already eggs. The "preferred" box was empty and even though they ALWAYS prefer to lay in that one box, NOBODY laid an egg in the preferred box because it was empty! So apparently it makes a difference for all 5 of my hens: they all want to lay where there is already an egg.Having learned from these experiments with the fake eggs, I will now work to have one egg in each box!!

One or more of our chickens has been pecking open an egg, making a mess in the laying box and making the other eggs filthy. We got these to deliver a lesion to the cannibal chicken. So far so good, we've discovered no cracked open eggs since using themWe did draw fun designs on ours with sharpie though so that we don't accidentally gather them with the edible eggs! That's how real they look and feelThey don't, however, fool our Muscovy duck. She sometimes likes to brood on the chicken eggs, and she'll roll these fake eggs right out of her nest

I originally got a dummy egg at my farm supply to slip in with our birds' eggs to mess with my better half. They just weren't realistic enough though. I'm thrilled to report these are!!! First off they are slightly lighter in weight than a real egg. Only enough that one would have to be looking for it to notice. The real test- I slipped one of these "eggs" into the laying boxes. It got randomly collected and put in the egg basket. Now the waiting game started. For days I eyeballed that ticking time bomb of joy on the counter. One morning I had all but forgotten of my mildly evil sceme when I heard the screaming. It dawned on me that my plan was likely to blame. See my wife had one of our kids helping her fry some eggs. Being my kid, she was absolutely determined to get this "egg" to break. My wife upon witnessing this however thought it must have an unhatched chick inside (I really didn't see that coming, we don't even have a rooster). Well my wife freaked. See she had to stop this before what she thought was going to be an absolute horror show unfold as an unhatched chick, possibly still alive, spilled onto the hot cast iron, by her child's hand no less. The screaming stopped once she heard my tearful uncontrollable laughter. Then the other kind of yelling started. I was laughing so hard it was difficult to hear well but "heart attack" and "someday" were in there. Note- Said child apparently returned the "egg" to the basket and yes these can withstand boiling though they do float. I'll no doubt slip one into a carton to be given to a friend or neighbor soon. Well worth the cost of admission.

These are very realistic looking and are working great for keeping the chickens laying in the next. They are very light, unlike ones I have had in the past. I ended up putting a small X on them so we knew they were not real eggs. If you don't pay attention, I think you could easily pick it up as a real egg. These were also slightly cheaper than I could buy in my local feed and seed store.

Put in my ducks nesting boxes so it doesn’t stress them out when I remove the eggs.

These eggs do a good job of encouraging my hens to lay in the nesting box.They have also solved a problem I had with a magpie stealing my eggs.

crushed powder eggs poor light packing no hope

no surprises

Weighted correctly and coloured for standard brown eggs