nestboxes

I am trying to encourage my chickens to lay in their nest boxes, and we had our first egg the other day when it snowed and we kept chickens in the coop until midday. I block the nest boxes at night (they are attached to the coop) but when i unblocked them this morning at 7am, whilst...

I'm wondering if some experienced chicken keepers could help me out with this scratching behavior issue. We have 6 20-week old pullets (1 Cinnamon Queen, 1 Jersey Giant, 1 Barred Rock, 1 Buff Orpington, and 2 Light Brahmas). The photo of my coop from TSC is linked to below with the description...

Hi. Has anyone had their chickens sleep in the nesting boxes? How did you get them to stop? All of my chickens used to sleep on the roost, but now only two of them do. It'd be hard to put all of them on the roost at night, because my coop isn't a walk in. Do you have any ideas? As advised by...