Please Post Pictures of Your Creative Nesting Boxes

Looking for some great inspiration here - hoping to break away from the "norm" and see something different!!

We don't have pictures, but in our indoor barn pen, we use blue plastic storage crates for egg boxes. I roughly line these with light cardboard or brown paper sacks to keep pine bedding from falling out the holey frame of the boxes. We have some of ours hung from framing on the barn wall (about 3-4 feet high) and a few others we've placed on the floor of the pen for the silkies who prefer not to jump up. Our hens lay more in these boxes than they do in their "proper" egg boxes framed in their regular coop outside. ~G

We have had six inches of snow on this "southern" ground this past week. My coop has been known to flood before, so I brought in two very large (tree sized) flower pots, which I packed tightly with free pine shavings I picked up from a friend who works at a sawmill. I figured that if the snow melt ended up flooding the coop, then I'd spread those dry pine shavings on the floor so the feathered kids would have a layer of dry to walk on. I put these pine shaving filled flower pots on top of a 3 foot tall, 6 foot by 3 foot pinewood "table" in the coop, so it would be protected from any water that might come in.


Well, it never flooded in the henhouse.


But my hens saw those pine shaving filled flower pots, and said to themselves "Hhmmm... with a little work, these will make GREAT laying boxes!"


So they climbed on top of the two flower pots and scratched enough pine shavings out to make a little crater in the shavings the exact size of a laying hen.


Now, they forgo all of the nests that I gave them, and instead are using the flower pots that they custom fitted for their comfort!


Goofy hens!

I used an old box I found in our barn.

I made a nine hole rear roll-out nest box from a Martha Stewart bookcase I bought at Home Depot!



I can collect the eggs from my brooder room without going into the coop.

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Zaz... That is so clever!!

Here are my first nest boxes.


The first is before installation and the second is in glorious use!!

DId you guys put fake eggs in for a bit to show them where to lay?

Sort of...mine are golf balls!!