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RI reds and barred rock. The red is laying now

But then they roost on the edge and poop in the eggs....

The bins at 12 inches deep and 8 inches wide . The younger ( 15 weeks old) ones go in them all the time.

What would I do to fix it

This is the old set up. She only ever laid in one of them.

This is the new sit up. I have 7, but o my one is laying which is why only one box is open.

I redesigned my coop after learning so much. Since then my hen has been only laying her eggs on the floor. So the old set up had wood dividers and was open on the top. They would roost on the dividers and poop in the nesting boxes. New set up is a covered shelf with deep plastic bins that i cut...

My RI RED just started laying 2 weeks ago and I have been getting an egg every 1.5 days. This morning she laid 2 eggs that had extremely thin shells. One of them broke as I tried to pick it up. Is this typical to have a chicken lay 2 eggs at the same time? Is it understandable that those two...

Oh my gosh.... I knew it was wrong, but I guess I didn't know how wrong. My husband is going to kill me. He wanted to give the chickens most of the shed and I talked him down. Having chickens is something I have always wanted and my hubby has finally decided to support me. We spent the weekend...

I am really confused. The coop in the picture I bought from tractor supply and the packing said up to 6 chickens (which I thought was small) the interior of that is 2.5x2.5 which includes 3 boxes and a floor space with roasts.

The window that is on the shed opens up to the inside of the coop. Will that work for ventilation?

Inside the shed they have 5.5ft x 2.5 ft of floor space and then the boxes are 5.5ft x 1.5 ft divided into 5. The outdoor space will be 8ft x 10 ft.I will mostly use one of the boxes for water so that is really 4 nests.

We have switched out playhouse shed into a coop. There was an existing door that led to a bridge. So we took that and cut the bridge in half. Then we built the nesting boxing and all that inside. We have 6 5wk old chick's and one hen that just laid her first egg. If this going to be a good size...

Found this wonderful little egg this morning!!!!

Here's a foot... We do not have power but we have an outlet off the back of the house that is going over for the water heating pad. We can get power out with an extention cord and the shed has a window that we could pull the cord through for inside heat. How soon could I get the chick's out...

Oh... should I have any health concerns of mixing them. Considering I don't know the history of snowy? I know my chick's had shoots.

I am in rhode island so it's winter but it has been staying between 30 and 40 lately. Really rainy and damp the past few days, but sun should be drying us up for the next couple days. (Random thought-this all started right around the beginning of a nasty rain and wind storm - could that cause...

The first 2 weeks or so she was sleeping on the roost. I think the past few nights have been in the nest, but she's not pooping in the nest so it is staying clean. The chick's are 4 weeks old and still getting their feathers so they are still inside. We named her snowy, in light of the snowny...