how to move them out of the nest box

[sueandthe6]

in the fall I added two chickens. both turned out to be roosters but it was winter and I left them with the girls. This started a habit of roosting/pearching in the edge of the nest boxes. Got more roost space and now cant get them to leave the nesting boxes.

 

[Judy]

You'll probably have to close off the nest boxes at night and reopen them in the morning. If that's a problem, and ou have the space, just use cardboard boxes for nests for a week or two, and leave the regular nest boxes boarded up. Hopefully by then your roosters will have learned to use the roost. Or you could try nailing up scraps of cloth on the front of the nest boxes, at the top, like curtains. Hopefully it will prevent roosting on the edge, and the hens will push the cloth aside and go into the nest..

 

[Hokum Coco]

This started a habit of roosting/pearching in the edge of the nest boxes. Got more roost space and now cant get them to leave the nesting boxes.
I would take a feed bag like I have pictured below and stuff it full of hay (or even other feed bags) and stuff the feed bag pillow into the nest boxes so they could not gain access.

Nest boxes
In my nest boxes I fold a feed bag to fit (nest boxes are 1 ft³). When a bag gets soiled; fold a new one; pop out the soiled; pop in the new. Feed bags are a nylon mesh bag.
Frozen poop just peels off in below freezing temperatures and just flakes off in summer when left out in the sun to bake and dry.

I have 65 trips around the sun it is the best method I have stumbled upon.

Make sure the twine is removed from the open end of the bag it can get tangled around your birds.