How many chickens can fit in the nest box? *Post your pics*

[froggie71]

Well in our coop at least 4! You wouldn't know the other boxes were completely empty.

Yesterday everyone wanted to be in the box on the other end of the coop.

Right after this pic was taken 3 girls got out of the box and started singing the egg song and there was only 1 egg in the box.

 

[CMV]

Hey it's a clown car!

 

[carolina chicky]

Hey, looks like mine...I have 2 sitting on eggs in the same box and yesterday, another squeezed her way in, lol

 

[PhilErvin]

I had the same problem so I put a golf ball in the other boxes and now they all use different boxes

 

[ranchhand]

Great pic, thanks for the

 

[Chicken_Hubster]

Golf ball, that's a good idea.

 

[froggie71]

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I don't think it matters as there could be eggs in all the boxes, but usually there is a back up for just 1 box and not always the same box. When our broody was sitting in one of the boxes before I moved her everyone wanted to lay in the box with her. Currently she is hatching out a menagerie of chicks.

 

[sourland]

They heard the rumor that all non-laying hens are going into the stew pot. That's why they all claimed ownership of the egg.

 

[sunket77]

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[froggie71]

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That had me laughing!