egg nest? anyone use a crates before????

[ab333]

I have heard that some people have used crates for there nesting boxes???? What are your ideas on that. I am wondering if that could be my problem with the hens not laying. I use pine shavings in the coop and then just added straw to it and in the "nest boxes" along with a golf ball in each....

 

[Elite Silkies]

I use the milk crates and it doesn't bother them.

 

[slightlyscrambled]

I have 8 nest boxes in my coop 6 wooden and 2 milk crates one is the bigger more rectangular, and the second one is square.
I have six hens currently laying and only one girl uses the wooden boxes all of the others like the milk crates.

 

[emvickrey]

The coolest nests i've seen are the ones somebody made out of those 5 gallon jugs of oil for cooking. They're kinda square and they cut our an area in the side of the jug, but in bedding and bam. You have a nest box. My chickens would love it. I just keep forgetting to go around and ask for the jugs. I used a small carrier once because my AO didn't want to lay her eggs on the shelf where the others do. So I gave her a crate. Then the others started using it and she quit. I have even seen people use litter boxes. The ones with the top. Five gallon buckets turned on their side. Small storage containers, without the lids of course.

 

[ab333]

Thanks so much for your replies If you have any pics could you share?? Thanks again,
Amy