Non Traditional Nesting Boxes

[PaulaJoAnne]

picture taken before winter cleanout

 

[scrambledmess]

Awesome!!! Thanks for the input. I am getting ideas. Would love to see more!

 

[missred871]

we use 5 gallon buckets nailed onto the roost stage we built in the middle of the coop it is self standing.

 

[Amyable]

I'm also going to use discarded deli food buckets. My MIL can get dozens of them for me - we use them for all sorts of things. the ones I'm using for nest boxes are shorter than the standard 5-gal but wider. I saw an ingenious person who just cut the lids in half to make a lip to hold in the shavings. No need to use a board, and the lids can just pop off for cleaning.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

I don't have any pics., but once I had a row of old mailboxes with a little straw in them in the barn. It looked really cool.

 

[Matt A NC]

Milk Crates.

All the ladies are standard sized birds, 3 buff cochins and a white langshan.

Screwed to the wall with 2 screws, one on each side. Fast and quick.

Matt

 

[gryeyes]

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Oh, I LOVE that idea! I don't need any more nest-boxes, but dang.... I'm gonna keep an eye out for old mail boxes and collect 'em, so "if" I someday build yet another coop, I'll use those!!!

In my three coops and duck house currently utilized as a youngster segregation/integration "coop," I have four different styles of nest boxes: purchased coop kit with boxes on the ends, a double nest box I bought and put into the A-Frame I built, a rear access rollaway nest box I built into the Big Coop, and two plastic milk crates in the duck house/chick integration lodgings.

I also have several five gallon buckets I got free from the local grocery store's bakery; those are used for feeders and waterers. And spares.... never can have too many empty white buckets with lids!

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

Dish pans from the dollar store, four dollars. I drilled 3 matching holes and used zipties, use a box knife to carve a circle for entrance. Two hens squish in there at once to lay everyday with no broken eggs!

 

[4theloveofhens]

I just have to say that these pictures of these hens are absolutely adorable!!!

just cute as ever!

 

[crtrlovr]

Right now mine are using: the right front corner of the chicken house
the left front corner of the chicken house
the back left corner of the chicken house
an old dresser drawer
a long, large bottom drawer from an armoire (comfortably accommodates two reasonably friendly girls)
a milk crate
a small pet carrier
and have five smallish drawers from a discarded armoire ... they're not laying in them yet because I just put them in there a couple of days ago and they're still using they're other spots, but who knows....