I'll be making nest boxes when I get the time and I'm going to make two wide boxes so that each box will comfortably sit three hens. I think they like a chat while laying.I've been wondering whether somehow adding a nest box would ease the pressure on the nestbox area. Sounds like it won't. The Omlet setup is a long box divided from the roost area with a solid bottom instead of small roost bars, and it's big enough for two. Sometimes there are two hens in it, one on each end. More often though there is just one in it at a time, and depending on their cycle, one or more are waiting to go in, making wanting sounds, going up in there and checking, and coming out and wailing about it being occupied. Once in a while somebody lays an egg outside of it in the roosting side.