- Jun 11, 2010
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I just posted the other day about my nest boxes being too small so I reconfigured everything and now have much larger box spaces. A large shelf divided in two (about 18T x 18W x 11D, for 6 chickens lined with shredded paper and a golf ball.
My chickens are at 19 weeks and JUST started laying but they are really laying all over the place and I have only found 1 out 6 eggs actually IN the next boxes.
A couple were on the poop boards which I 'think' I fixed by laying a branch on the board so they couldn't really get down there off their roost and scratch around in the sand.
A couple were in the middle of the coop floor in the sand and one was under the next boxes. I laid another branch under the nest boxes so hopefully that keeps them from scratching around under there but we will see...
So my question is, will they eventually settle into their next boxes and lay in there or will they always be clueless and lay all over the place?
Thanks,
Chanda & the girls
My chickens are at 19 weeks and JUST started laying but they are really laying all over the place and I have only found 1 out 6 eggs actually IN the next boxes.
A couple were on the poop boards which I 'think' I fixed by laying a branch on the board so they couldn't really get down there off their roost and scratch around in the sand.
A couple were in the middle of the coop floor in the sand and one was under the next boxes. I laid another branch under the nest boxes so hopefully that keeps them from scratching around under there but we will see...
So my question is, will they eventually settle into their next boxes and lay in there or will they always be clueless and lay all over the place?
Thanks,
Chanda & the girls