Please Post Pictures of Your Creative Nesting Boxes

[MARGOLYN]

Now this I like, I can put some visiting relatives in there too....LOL

 

[MARGOLYN]

Now I think these egg crates are a great idea, better than buckets. Easy cleaning, ventilation etc. Nice pic, this is gonna be for my own coop when I get er done...Thanks for the pic

 

[MARGOLYN]

Well you know how that goes girls, when you gotta go you gotta go......

 

[MARGOLYN]

Hey they look kinda small....What kind of bird will fit in them?? Love your power tool....LOL

 

[Beekissed]

These are plastic totes with locking lids, with the entrance hole cut into the lid. I can take the whole front of the nest box off by unlocking the handles. I lined them with heavy cardboard for insulation against the cold and sun to make for comfier laying.





This is the bottom of the totes, cut out, framed and then the cut out portion used as a sliding door in the tongue and groove frames to provide outside access.

 

[chickenlolly]

Thank you all for the pictures! I'm inspired to look around my property to find something to use instead of spending $$$$ !!!

 

[CluckCluck18]

These are the inside nest boxes...there are two but there were supposed to be three.
We were drinking too much beer while building them.

Worked out fine because they all lay in one box anyway.
Bought the old one at a tag sale....the girls use it once in awhile but mostly they just sit on it!

 

[JenEgrrrL]

This Is Another One That They Fight Over

I’m new to being a hen mother (one week in on an established flock!!) and I’m trying to figure out if one of my hens is an Ameraucana or an EE- she looks almost eggsactly like your hen on the right that’s standing on the boxes! She has blue tinted legs and hasn’t laid yet since relocating them to their new forever home (my house)...

 

[tweetzone86]

We have had six inches of snow on this "southern" ground this past week. My coop has been known to flood before, so I brought in two very large (tree sized) flower pots, which I packed tightly with free pine shavings I picked up from a friend who works at a sawmill. I figured that if the snow melt ended up flooding the coop, then I'd spread those dry pine shavings on the floor so the feathered kids would have a layer of dry to walk on. I put these pine shaving filled flower pots on top of a 3 foot tall, 6 foot by 3 foot pinewood "table" in the coop, so it would be protected from any water that might come in.


Well, it never flooded in the henhouse.


But my hens saw those pine shaving filled flower pots, and said to themselves "Hhmmm... with a little work, these will make GREAT laying boxes!"


So they climbed on top of the two flower pots and scratched enough pine shavings out to make a little crater in the shavings the exact size of a laying hen.


Now, they forgo all of the nests that I gave them, and instead are using the flower pots that they custom fitted for their comfort!


Goofy hens!

 

[casportpony]

Great thread!