How many nesting boxes POLL

[Chicks Galore3]

Edit for Bullit I am pretty sure i am going to use three, but how many do you use per chicken? How many chickens per box?

 

[FoCo]

I have four hens and one box. Initially there were two boxes, but everyone wanted to use the same box. It's working out fine.

 

[queenchick16]

I have four ladies and 2 boxes . Three of them routinely use one box but the fourth girl insists on using the other one

 

[Bullitt]

I think your question should be how many chickens per nesting box.

It is usually recommended that there be about one nesting box for every four chickens. (I voted four on the poll.)

You said you are going to use three (nesting boxes?). How many chickens do you have?

 

[cravenchx]

3 for 13 layers, I did find one in the run the other day.
First time that's happened.

 

[Chicks Galore3]

I think your question should be how many chickens per nesting box.

It is usually recommended that there be about one nesting box for every four chickens. (I voted four on the poll.)

You said you are going to use three (nesting boxes?). How many chickens do you have?

WILL have

10

 

[aceintoledo]

six chickens, two boxes.

 

[Bullitt]

WILL have

10

Three nesting boxes will work for 10 hens.

Do you have any updates on your coop project, or do you plan to finish it this coming weekend?

 

[KDK1]

Nine birds, four boxes but one is closed off. They very seldom lay in the third one.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I have long gone by the rule of thumb of five hens to the box.

But it really doesn't matter how many you put in the hens will make the call. My birds are divided up into five different flocks. Multiple boxes per flock. Pretty much every day each flock will lay all of their eggs in one or two boxes leaving the rest empty. Only the largest flock more or less uses most (but never all) of their boxes, but that's because there are so many more of them relative to the other flocks.