Laying in same nesting box?

[KMHunter]

My girls didn't like the community nesting box I built them. Alot of squabbling and racket from the three that are laying. I went out and bought 2 covered cat liter boxes and they love them! Very private. Chickens are so funny!

 

[My Little Sister's Farm]

I had a row of 4, one partition broke down and we removed it. Then we had 1 communal and 2 singles. Some days the "community nest" is loaded and other days it's a different nest. I think they just didn't read all the poultry text books we did.

We have the 10-hole nest boxes and i never put the bottoms in all of them, they don't use more than half at a time. Guess it saves me a crouch or two when easter egg hunting.

 

[goldielocks]

That is so funny, mine are the same. We have four nest boxes and most use the same nest box. My husband went out to collect eggs and there were 3 girls in the one box together. All quiet and just sitting there.

The other lower box does get used and the two uppers sometimes get used. I noticed that the RIR's are the ones that will go ahead and use the other boxes.

Chickens are so funny. I enjoy them so much.

 

[cnterfld21]

I know this is an old post but I found 3 eggs in the same nest today and all could do was laugh my butt off

. I have 3 Americana's, a SLW and a Barred Rock. I have been getting 2 brown eggs everyday for the past 3 weeks or so and have only had them in the same nest once.
Well today (to my surprise) ....... there were 2 brown eggs and a tiny blue one

and I have 5 boxes for them to use. Chickens are so weird LOL

 

[Chichengod]

is there an easy way to make them lay in different boxes

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

My reasoning is that they lay in the same box because its already been deemed safe by whoever put the first egg there. I have a 12 hole nest box (4 chicken laying, I used to have MANY more) and they all use one. When I had a flock of more than 60, they'd still only use 2 or 3 of the boxes. You could try putting fake eggs or golf balls in multiple boxes and see if that encourages them to use the others, but I have that going on now and they use just one of them!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

is there an easy way to make them lay in different boxes

For what reason?

 

[spartanchick]

Once I put golf balls in each nesting box, they used all of them. I once found 3 trying to cram themselves in one 12x12 nesting box, it was pretty funny, but I worried about eggs breaking or getting kicked out. Fake plastic eggs works too.