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[vfem]

Ruth, no worries! I'm always happy to help with garden stuff. I do it all the time for free. Though its fun and useful to get the people I'm teaching to help in my garden. Seems like a fair trade! lol

 

[sjmarshall87]

has anyone ever used the triplex style nesting boxes supplied by mypetchicken.com? Right now we are currently using the platic "handle" crates. I am wondering if i upgrade to these (not only is it the same cost I would have spent on these stupid plastic things years ago but it doesnt have holes in it!) maybe I will have better luck with my girls laying in the coop.

They are still locked up this morning... hoping they will lay....

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

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Now if only I lived closer!!

SJM - I wish I could help, but I'm still trying to get mine to lay IN their boxes that we have for them. Best of luck!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Mine use the hooded cat litter boxes minus the cat litter, they love them and I found them on sale at Roses, after my friend gave me one she wasn't using any more, and i found the girls lined up one morning waiting to use it.

 

[sjmarshall87]

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Mine use the hooded cat litter boxes minus the cat litter, they love them and I found them on sale at Roses, after my friend gave me one she wasn't using any more, and i found the girls lined up one morning waiting to use it.

Thats an awesome idea! How much did you spend each cat litter box?

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Mine use the hooded cat litter boxes minus the cat litter, they love them and I found them on sale at Roses, after my friend gave me one she wasn't using any more, and i found the girls lined up one morning waiting to use it.

Thats an awesome idea! How much did you spend each cat litter box?

I believe they were on sale at Roses for 7.00 originally 10.00 I bought 3 so i have 4 and they love them better than anything I have tried.

 

[gavinandallison]

We tried milk crates, just to have them all nest behind the coop door and use the crates as perches!

 

[vfem]

My husband built the wood nesting boxes w/ separators that hang out of the coop with a lid for me to have access from the outside. LOVE the convenience... but I still for a couple girls decide to lay at the back of the coop under the roost bars. The brats! lol

 

[Lunar Ice]

First two chicken eggs today! ^.^ YAY!
I thought something was in the darn coop terrorizing the chickens because they were ALL making noise....even the guineas and the peafowl had joined in. I thought a snake had gotten in or something!

I'm currently using plastic crates as nesting boxes (Walmart sells them for like $5 and it's all I could really find at the time) and the roosters LOVE them (they pile in them all together at night)....but using covered litter boxes sounds like a good idea too!
The litter boxes (and rubbermaid bins!) are also good as a cheap back-up brooder...

Just cut a hole big enough to fix a heatlamp to and you're good to go!

 

[suburbanchickymama]

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Yay for your first eggs!!! Man, 2 at once! That's impressive! I still haven't had a double egg day - yet anyway! I've gotten 1 today so maybe it will be my lucky day!!