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

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sandrameissnest

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hello,
i have 2 ,4 month old chickens
and i have also have 4, 4 week old chickens... do i need 6 nesting boxes?
how many is enough>
thanks for your help
sandra
 
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.
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thanks so much for your help..we do have 3 :)
i wanted to tell my husband already to prepare 3 more.. LOL
thanks
 
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.
 
ok perfect,
they should be in the dark right?
i heard that chickens lay better in the dark
is that true?
 
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.
 
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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
 

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