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Also, top of nest boxes should be below the level of the roosts, or else birds will make for and roost on top of them, fouling (fowling?) the top with their droppings. As double insurance to keep them off, top of nest boxes should be sloped as shown. Also, bottoms of these nest boxes are...

This is where I put mine........ As per poultry husbandry books from decades ago.....a time when farm chickens were a profit center so they studied this stuff.....nests were to be elevated off the floor enough that a bird standing flat footed on the ground (coop floor) could not see into...