Nest box dividers 😁

[RESQME49]

When I built my coop, I left dividers out of the nest box to see what they would do. Welllll after a few weeks they made a 3 nest box without dividers so they aren’t necessary!

 

[Battlepants]

I'm surprised that your girls are being that cooperative. When I had 5 girls using 3 nest boxes, there would be a daily battle on who gets to use one in particular. So the egg-song would be sang for hours! Mixed up the group a bit since then and now currently have 4 girls using 6 nest boxes and 1 girl using the original 3 and things seem to be going smoothly. Planning up upping their populations when this next group gets old enough to go out there.

 

[RESQME49]

13 girls using these 3. It was the same on the last coop. I’ve read that it’s 3-5 birds per nest and from my experience it has held true. I’m sure if you offer more they would use them, but my girls seem to do well with 3 nests

 

[LaurelC]

I had 8 girls using an old doghouse that I converted to have a hinged lid. I figured I might add dividers if they seemed to tussle over it, but they never had any issues, even when I had a broody, i just put a wire crate divider panel in and they made a new nest.

 

[Acre4Me]

Not our experience. We did the same-wide nest box, no dividers. We HAD to put dividers in bc a couple girls bossed those boxes and seriously wouldn’t let others in. And they were not broody. We ended up building new nest boxes a couple years Later. We made 5 compartments: 2 xtra large ones on the bottom, and 3 regular size ones on top.

Each flock is different. What works for one may not work for another.

 

[McChooky]

I use one for 5 girls and they use it without dividers.l will use a divider if one goes broody

 

[McChooky]

double doors but one nest