Chickens sleeping in Nestboxes

Yep, I ended up making removable nest boxes to avoid this and only keep enough in the coop to for the chickens that are laying.

 

You can just close the nestboxes off temporarily (either put something big in 'em, or staple some cardboard etc over the openings) to get them out of the habit, til they're closer to laying age.

Ideally nestboxes ought to be noticeably lower than ALL roosts, not just the highest, so you might want to think about whether this can be adjusted, also whether your roosts could maybe be wider or whether maybe there's a draft there. In case.

Good luck, have fun,

Pat

 

mine do it all the time so I have thrown in the flag and let them roost where they want, they lay under the nests, and I have no problem as long as they lay. marrie

 

I caught my banty cochin roo sleeping in a nestbox this afternoon!! Silly chicken!

I guess that's one way to stay warm...

 

i had the same problem. found out that they are too big so i made some smaller and now i don't have that problem

 

We had this problem with a pullet that was particularly picked on. We just booted her out of them every time we caught her in them and eventually she got the message.