Design, redesign, re-think... nest box positioning

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

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Kcsunshine said it best I would do it as well but they beat me to it, I said that as well. "I said I will only buy 2 hens that's all cause I just want eggs for myself and family".
Now I have 5 BPR 1 RIR and 6 BO's and getting more plus thinking of getting 2 guineas.

You think you will just get three or at least you belive you will only get three We all know better

 

[Gypsi]

oh, ok. So unless I have a rooster, I probably won't have broody hens?

 

[elmo]

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Hens lay eggs and sometimes go broody even without a rooster. But you won't ever get chicks hatching out of those eggs without a rooster!

Whether a hen will go broody or not depends on the individual chicken. Some breeds have had the broodiness bred right out of them, because people who keep chickens for the eggs don't want their hens going broody (they don't lay during the broody period). Other breeds go broody frequently, particularly the bantam breeds (breeds that have been kept for their beauty and not for their egglaying anyway).

We have one little Serama/D'Uccle hen who tried to go broody several times over the winter even though I was leaving no eggs in the nestbox for her to sit on. Our other hens, Serama/Old English Game Bantam hybrids, only went broody when I started leaving eggs in the nestboxes to accumulate into a clutch.

 

[Gypsi]

ok - thank you. So much to learn. Not much time to build....