They lay in the morning between 5AM and 10AM, so you might need to check a couple time. My coop had a poop tray that I pulled out and sprayed off with hose every morning. I had a couple wooden eggs in the coop, for a couple reasons. One, they knew where to lay. Two, they stopped pecking their eggs. They need calcium supplements in their diet. Watch out for mites. They scratch the hell out of the yards, and make large bare patches, and love to bath in dusty dirt. They LOVE worms. You can get dried worms from the store, and they go nuts. They can jump about 5 feet off the ground.