Nesting boxes made from removable dish bins?

[gtaus]

OK, not seeing an anti-tip bar...but glad you tested it.

Yeah, the anti-tip bar is there but hard to see if you don't know it's there. Tested fine.

 

[aart]

Yeah, the anti-tip bar is there but hard to see if you don't know it's there. Tested fine.

Must be tucked under the lip of bin in these pics.....maybe other pics later showing it?

 

[gtaus]

Must be tucked under the lip of bin in these pics.....maybe other pics later showing it?

Oh, I see the problem. There is no anti-tip bar under the lip of the front of the bin. I put strips of wood underneath the bins in both the front and back. Kind of like a floor, but only a few strips and not a complete floor. When I tested it out with my hands, the front and back strips of wood under the bins stopped any tipping. My bins are suspended only 1/8 inch above those bottom strips, so any weight from above in the bins brings the bin down on top of the anti-tip strips.

My chicks will not be laying for another few months, so I took the bins out. Since there is no real floor in the nest box enclosure, they cannot get in there and sleep, poo, etc... and make a mess. At best, they could only use the strips as a roost, but I have other roosts in the coop that are both better and higher. So I hope the chicks don't start roosting inside the nest box enclosure. But if they do, it's still a roost type strip and the poo would fall through to the deep litter bedding below. So it's all good, I hope.