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[Chicklette 1]

YOur nesting boxes are beautiful! They look like furniture. Are you sure you want to put chickens in them?? LOL

 

[Ridgerunner]

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[GableBabble]

Just wanted to say that these have been great! I wanted to post ours but hubbie thinks he is not nearly as good with wood as some of these guys are

Ours is 2 rows of wooden boxes.

 

[pdbantam]

This is such a cool place to get ideas. I guess one can recycle just about anything for chickens

 

[TnChickHen]

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Lol, have him take a look at mine!! mine is just a ladder and some cardboard boxes ontop of an old tire!!!!

 

[Ivywoods]

This is my favorite nest box. It is an antique roll out nest box I got at a farm auction for $20. It is a community nest. The hens go in the hole on the end, lay their eggs, then the eggs roll out to the front. I don't even have to go in the coop to pick them up. The eggs stay cleaner and I don't have to worry about someone getting the idea they like to eat eggs. The funny part is that I have several BC marans hens that want to go broody in there. It's not working too well for them. Their eggs keep rolling out.

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This is one of the nests I built. I used all scrap lumber, so it didn't really cost me anything. It is a 10 hole nest, which is way more than they need in the small pen this is in. I don't think they ever used more than 3 of the nests. When I get time, perhaps this winter, I'm going to convert it to a roll out nest.

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When I get my new poultry breeder barn done, I plan to use a different kind of nest. We live on a farm, so we get a few 5 gallon buckets from oil, hydraulic fluid, etc. I will use the buckets, but I am going to make it so they fit through the wire into the coop, and the back of the bucket will be "valved" so it will work like a roll out nest. I've got a couple of them made, and they work great. I still want to "tweak" them a little so they look better. Now I just need to get the barn built to put them in!

 

[Erin~TheChickenLover]

Those roll out nest are ingenious!

The eggs don't get damaged rolling down do they?

 

[Chicklette 1]

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Love the old nest with the roll out for the eggs. You are really busy with building things!! I'm jealous because I always get ideas but do not own one power tool and wouldn't know how to use it if I did. Good luck with the barn.

 

[ChickiKat]

I love the buckets. And the hard hat idea sounds so funny!!!!

 

[Poppafrog]

Not as fancy as alot of the ones one here but mine will do! No back door but I can see in to look for eggs.