How do I "close" the nesting boxes until needed?

[dbounds10]

My girls have been in the coop for about a week now. I hear I should close down the nest boxes so they dont sleep in there. How would I close these down?
I have to many (4 nest for 6 chickens) so I have used one to keep a gallon waterer in, this blocks it and they cant get in, just drink out of.

I dont have very many pics of them but here is one from when we were still building

From the outside

See them through the pop door.

Need advice!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Depends on how fancy or pretty you want to make it. I'm not criticizing, just saying we all have different goals and standards.

Take a piece of plywood, hardware cloth, whatever, and screw it to the front.

Make a sliding door. Create a groove on both sides of the opening, put a stop on the bottom, and slide a piece of plywood in that. Or put the grooves top and bottom and slide the plywood in sideways. The vertical sliding door is how I did mine.

You could probably get fancy with hinges and hasps, but that sounds too complicated.

I'm braindead this morning. That's all I can think of. I'll be surprised if others don't come up with other better ideas.

 

[greenSearcher]

I stapled cardboard across the openings working through the lifted lid. It was sturdy enough to keep the pullets out until I saw a lot of red combs, and once I opened them up I placed ceramic eggs in each box (from Premier1). I also use a nest box liner, it shakes clean most of the time, no scraping the crud of the bottoms.

 

[aggie9296]

I had to break my pullets from sleeping in there, so I just stuck a cardboard mailing box in it and blocked it off.

 

[FireTigeris]

put roost higher then the nest boxes?