I have 7 nest boxes for 30 hens and they only use 2 ever.
When I first got them I didn't have as many hens so I built 7 boxes, they only used 2 and the more hens that came along only used the same 2 also so I never added in more.
They form a line in the morning ( I kid you not) and wait for their turn and you should hear the sqwaking going on from the girls in line when someone is taking too long to lay her egg.
I have heard them all the way in the house and when I go out to investigate the problem, there is the line of big fat hens yelling at the princess in the box.
They like the 2 boxes at either end of the wall that are partially hidden by the feeder and waterer on each end.
I guess they like their privacy.
When I first got them I didn't have as many hens so I built 7 boxes, they only used 2 and the more hens that came along only used the same 2 also so I never added in more.
They form a line in the morning ( I kid you not) and wait for their turn and you should hear the sqwaking going on from the girls in line when someone is taking too long to lay her egg.
I have heard them all the way in the house and when I go out to investigate the problem, there is the line of big fat hens yelling at the princess in the box.
They like the 2 boxes at either end of the wall that are partially hidden by the feeder and waterer on each end.
I guess they like their privacy.
