do i need 6 nesting boxes if i have 6 chickens? HELP !!

Hens will share nesting boxes. 6 nesting boxes for 6 hens would be overkill. Two or three is plenty. If you have three you will very likely find that one isn't used very often, if at all. Enjoy the girls.

1 or 2 would be plenty. a good rule of thumb is 1 nest for every 5 hens :)

If you already have three nesting boxes, that will be more than enough for your hens.  Even with three, they'll probably only use one - possibly two.  When I first got 7 pullets, we had 2 nest boxes.  They all used the same box - only occasionally using the other one.

nests should be placed in the darkest corner of the coop to help prevent egg-eating, sleeping in/on top of nests, and encourage laying in nest boxes. Hens actually lay best given 14 hours of light per day, sunlight, artificial light, or, usually in winter, a combonation. contary to popular belief, darkness will not increase laying, no do hens lay better in darkness. they are however often attracted to any sort of three sided and roofed hollow, be it a nest box or an overturned feed barrel and are more likely to lay there.

I have 8 hens and two boxes, and that works fine. They all lay in the same one, anyway.

I agree even ONE would be fine:) They tend to prefer one over another anyways..:) good luck

 Yep, agreed here too. I have 12 hens and was told when I got my first 5 that I needed one box for every two girls. I put in four boxes and........11 of them share one box, only one girl uses a different one! LOL