Nest box location

[chickbotfamily]

I need to know if this is a good location for our nest box. I have a kitchen cabinet that I took the door off and placed the nest box inside. Over the cabinet is the Roost. Could this cause issues? The roost is sent back a good 8-10 from the edge. Also does the nest need to be off the ground. Here are some pic.

The Roost and nest box

Close up

 

[toletiquesbysam]

Looks good to me!

 

[LynneP]

Me too, the nest box is sheltered and it's easy to scrape down the roost area- you'll get all of the night manure before it ever hits the floor...

 

[CityChook]

looks good to me too.

 

[dacdeihl]

looks good

 

[teach1rusl]

Okay, now I can't tell as much as what I'd like from the photo, but based on what I'm seeing, I'll disagree with LynneP about being easy to scrape (but I may be looking at it wrong). Is the roost the 2 x 4 at the very tip top of the upper photo??? What is the ledge looking thing I'm seeing, that kind of looks like a narrow strip of counter top?? Is that counter thing wide enough to catch all of the poop??? I was thinking that if you put a slanted sheet of something in that area under the roost (on top of the cabinet w/slant forward) then it would catch the poop (easy to scrape), but because it's slanted, would discourage a chicken from landing/standing on it... Cool use of an old cabinet! And is the drawer a working one?? Storage of small items!!!