How do i get my chicken to get in her nesting box, she just sleeps on the floor never in her box?

[papileo]

I made a temporary nesting box for my chickens for now (while I'm building new ones) the problem is with the temporary one she does not hop in there, not one foot in her nesting box. The box is big enough, theres soft pine wood, its on the floor for her to just go in and lay or sleep.

I want her to get used to sleeping in her temporary nesting box but i don't know how to make her get on.

Am I doing something wrong ?
I don't want her to start laying eggs randomly throughout the coop.
What can i do?
Should i put golf balls so she can think thats where she should go in and lay?

Most of the time she's on the dirt in a little crevice she made.

 

[Judy]

You don't want them sleeping in nest boxes, you want them sleeping on a roost. If they sleep in nest boxes and lay eggs there, you will have perpetually poopy eggs. Young chickens will often sleep on the floor and take to roost sleeping as they grow up, often around the time they start laying eggs.

 

[papileo]

You don't want them sleeping in nest boxes, you want them sleeping on a roost. If they sleep in nest boxes and lay eggs there, you will have perpetually poopy eggs. Young chickens will often sleep on the floor and take to roost sleeping as they grow up, often around the time they start laying eggs.

Thank you

Okay now i know ! & yes she is barely learning to sleep on her roost