I just set up a comfy dog crate next to the coop for my new mama and first night she nested behind it, but by by day 3 she moved right into that dog crate...
I had the opposite problem as the person's Inlaw-- mine hatched out in a nest box up high in the coop, hen hopped down day 3 post hatch with chicks and trotted down the ramp, one took a side route and got stuck in an crack in the coop door (I heard the peeping but it was a good 20 min, and freed it)-- the rest went down ramp ok, Mama left the coop and never looked back she and chicks freerange daily with the rest of the flock, but at night she takes them right to the dog crate (it is lined with straw)...
I had the opposite problem as the person's Inlaw-- mine hatched out in a nest box up high in the coop, hen hopped down day 3 post hatch with chicks and trotted down the ramp, one took a side route and got stuck in an crack in the coop door (I heard the peeping but it was a good 20 min, and freed it)-- the rest went down ramp ok, Mama left the coop and never looked back she and chicks freerange daily with the rest of the flock, but at night she takes them right to the dog crate (it is lined with straw)...