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What an awesome idea! I also have an Aussie. She hates using the dog house but did go in to take eggs when she realized a hen was using it to lay eggs in. But a small one just might work! We haven’t had many problems with attacks from birds. A owl came once with the first flock and got my roo...

Little Hen, even though she isn’t broody, has killed 2 chicks over coming near her eggs in the nesting box. Is there a way to deter that behavior or just need to add more nesting boxes in a different part? Can she learn to share? There are multiple nesting boxes and she only uses one. The...

How did you make them use the coop? Only Little Hen lays eggs in the nesting box but doesn’t sleep in the coop. Our neighbors flock stays in their coop except one of their hens sleeps in a brush in their front yard. She just jumps the fences and in the morning returns to the flock. I did read...

And a run helps how when they roam over an acre and don’t want to go in the coop? My ducks nest isn’t random. You do not understand the situation at all. ETA: our coop has a run. They still don’t want to use the coop. There is nothing wrong with the flock sleeping on the porch if that’s what...

They have a coop. They used to use the coop. However, they prefer the porch so that’s where they stay at night. The duck isn’t a random duck. She is our duck. She made her nest where she wanted. She seems to enjoy sitting on the eggs I put in her nest. My dog protects the flock from other...

Our dog stays outside to protect the flock. The flock doesn’t use the coop. They prefer to sleep on the back porch. It’s not lit or covered but both flocks we’ve had choose the porch. One en lays her eggs in the coop but the others just lay around the yard as they have free roam of the yard...