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post #1 of 8
6/11/12 at 7:56pm
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ok my hens sleep in their nest boxes and they keep them dirty. how do i break them from this? At first I didn't have their roost up, now I have 2 nice roost up and they still sleep in the nest boxes. I put one on the roost and she acted like she didn't know what was going on please help

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post #2 of 8
6/11/12 at 7:59pm

Obstruct nest box just before birds go to roost and remove obstruction first thing in morning,  Repeat for a couple days.

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post #3 of 8
6/11/12 at 8:10pm
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Thanks I will give that a try

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post #4 of 8
6/19/12 at 8:33pm
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Well, The girls are sleeping on their roost celebrate.gif, and I didn't get to block the nest boxes so now I don't have to. I am hopeing fl.gif this means we will soon get eggs clap.gif

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post #5 of 8
6/19/12 at 8:50pm
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Well, The girls are sleeping on their roost celebrate.gif, and I didn't get to block the nest boxes so now I don't have to. I am hopeing fl.gif this means we will soon get eggs clap.gif

 You will get clean eggs.

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post #6 of 8
6/20/12 at 5:45am
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yippeeeeee

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post #7 of 8
7/2/12 at 7:10pm
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The hens are a layn' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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post #8 of 8
7/2/12 at 7:16pm

congratulations!

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