Nesting Box Curtains?

[Hip Hillbilly Acres]

After I gathered the curtains, I put glued velcro… it’s the tough velcro… works like a charm and they rinse out and back up. Hope this helps

Great idea!!! Thanks.

 

[aart]

I suspect it's not so much a desire for 'privacy' as much as it is a desire for security.

Exactly.
As long as they feel 'safe', they will lay.

 

[ChicFil- A]

Did you hot glue the gathered curtains to the box? I am sitting here thinking how I will attach them. Don't want to screw them on and the hot glue idea will need to involve extension cord to keep the gun hot while applying the curtains.

Good Day, I used velcro to attaché to litter box front… works well and easy to remove.

 

[linguini]

Did you hot glue the gathered curtains to the box? I am sitting here thinking how I will attach them. Don't want to screw them on and the hot glue idea will need to involve extension cord to keep the gun hot while applying the curtains.

I use wire as curtain rod, and the burlap bags from coffee beans as curtain (for better airflow, and easy to thread the wire through), and use push pin or small nail to hold up the wire on strategic spots, for my jury-rigged curtain over the nesting box. Not a perfect solution, but a lazy one!!

 

[bditmar]

My chickens are starting to lay and I am wondering if nesting box curtains are a good idea? We have two boxes and 6 hens. Sometimes when one goes in a box, others will go in the coop to pace and watch. What style curtains are best…the kind you tie back on the sides with the middle open or the strips/flaps that cover the whole box?

My hems prefer a plain cardboard box half full of shavings, the box flaps are barely open and they all (6) lay in that a pile of nice eggs daily even in snow

 

[bditmar]

Good Day, I used velcro to attaché to litter box front… works well and easy to remove.

I had my hot glue pop off being cold. Maybe clean the surface well first, mine girls like the privacy of the camo fabric curtain I used.

 

[Henry&Friends]

I had my hot glue pop off being cold. Maybe clean the surface well first, mine girls like the privacy of the camo fabric curtain I used.

Maybe if you sand/scour the surface of the box then the glue can grab on better

 

[Nodakj]

I have debated on putting curtians up. I guess i went the other route. I put up a camera inside the coop that i use to watch the nest boxes so i can figure out who is laying. Seen some activity in one where a australorp was in. Went home at lunch time and found an oval egg. Idk if it was her first or not.