How many nest boxes do you have in your coop?

I have a 8 nest box cluster, chicken numbers vary from 12 to 50.

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16 hens, 5 boxes.

I put two small dog houses in the coop while I worked on building "proper" boxes. My girls use the two dog houses. I've never collected an egg from the three wooden boxes.
 
I have 2 long nesting boxes that can fit 3 in each, and I have 9 individual boxes kind of like apartments lol. But we also have 17 chickens.
 
I've heard 1 box to every 3 hens is a good rule of thumb, unless you want to encorage broodies then I would build additional, bigger, cage type nests for however many broodies you want to encorage.
 

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