Chicken sporadically laying in nesting box

[rosemarythyme]

Ehhhh....not a good idea, IMO......paper staples won't got thru corrugated far enough to stay in the wood for long........and they might not eat cardboard but you sure don't want them to eat staples.

Might work to cut it the juuust right size to jam in tight between top and bottom of nest.

Ahh I didn't think about that, that they could pull out the staples. With the top opening lid it'd be a pain to try and keep them in place every time you open the lid though. Maybe folding cardboard pieces in half, like a steep A shape, and sort of sitting them over the existing dividers. I'd either wrap them securely in wire close to where the top of the dividers currently end, to help keep them in place (so they sort of pinch down on the wood), or punch holes in the cardboard just above the current dividers and zip tie through the holes to get the same effect?

 

[Tulips08]

Ehhhh....not a good idea, IMO......paper staples won't got thru corrugated far enough to stay in the wood for long........and they might not eat cardboard but you sure don't want them to eat staples.

Might work to cut it the juuust right size to jam in tight between top and bottom of nest.

I have a pneumatic stapler I can use. Paper staples would make me nervous too. The top of the nesting boxes opens, so I can't jam it in there quite like that, but I can try to kind of make it long front to back and jam it in that way.

 

[aart]

I have a pneumatic stapler I can use.

That would be much better!
Plywood and drywall screws(pretty easy to use) would be the best.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I have a pneumatic stapler I can use.

Perfect! I just assume no one has any tools like me.

 

[Boonie Stomper]

These all see like good ideas. There's no problem I see with the nest boxes, but some birds are particular. I have one which after trying random places in the coop (including the intended nest with the fake egg, tried first), chose a rectangular plastic bucket that was parked under a wooden ladder. Very private, and she jumps over the top rim to enter. An ordinary unmodified bucket with grass clippings.