Thanks for the tip. I'll board them up for awhile. As for whether or not they'll lay in there after they've roosted there, I don't know. In my case, they're making quite a mess of them and I know they won't be laying for a number of weeks and I don't want to keep cleaning them out in the meantime.
First off, I am new at this (posting to a forum and raising chickens) I just built the laying boxes for our new flock of 12 chickens. Well, since the boxes have been built, most of the hens have abandoned their roosts and started roosting in the laying boxes. In fact they cram themselves in 4 or...