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    Ideas on how to get chickens to lay in the nesting boxes?

    I've seen those...they should work fine and be easy to clean as well. Just make sure there's a lip on the front to keep the bedding in and keep the "roof" on, LOL. Sixteen should be plenty...you generally only need 1 for every 2 or 3 hens.
  2. M

    Ideas on how to get chickens to lay in the nesting boxes?

    It might. When we first got our girls, we put in a rubbermaid dishpan...only one would use it at all. Once their coop was done and we put boxes in with sides and a roof...they ALL use them. Well, I should say "it" because even though there are two just alike, they all use the same one, LOL...
  3. M

    Ideas on how to get chickens to lay in the nesting boxes?

    Are they new at laying? Do you have any who do use the boxes? You might try keeping them in the coop till about noon or so...or whenever they usually finish laying for the day. Do you ever see the in the boxes investigating them? Are the boxes easily accessible? Are they darkish and...
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