chickens sleeping in laying box.

[20tundra]

The main reason I don't like it is they mess up the box. The last 2 mornings there was a broken egg in the box and yesterday I found an egg on the floor of the coop. Last nignt there were 3 sleeping in the 2 boxes so I moved them to the roost.Maybe they will get the idea if I keep doing it. The broken eggs were very thin so I'll go out tomorrow and pick up some oyster shell for them.

 

[gritsar]

When your hens are old enough to start laying and you go in the coop in the morning and find a bunch of totally poop-covered eggs, you'll realize that you really don't want them sleeping in the nestboxes, trust me.
The longer a chicken has a habit, the harder it is to break. This I know from experience.
Best not to allow any bad habits to start in the first place, IMHO.