Show us your nest boxes! Ingenous design post it here!

[res]

I don't know if I have already posted in this thread or not... but here are my nest boxes. Stacking bins from Lowe's - cheap, easy to clean, easy to stack, put them anywhere...

 

[LittleBits]

Quote: Thank you, mara1

 

[mara1]

Maybe if I make a sign my girls will take a hint.

 

[moarsaraplz]

We had a bunch of old antique apple boxes around the property exactly like the ones in this image. We just flipped them onto their sides and voila! The girls love them! Some of them even had lips on the edge of the box to keep the litter in!(I'm pretty sure the gentleman before us had pigeons, and used some of these as roosts )

 

[nettifer]

awwwwwwwwww thanks!

the chickens love them x

 

[AmysChickens]

I found this design on YouTube. This is just my version of it. Here are a couple of photos of it, and I have a couple of YouTube videos on my blog page.

http://amysharvest.blogspot.com/

 

[chick inn]

I lucked out salvaging this piece from a friend of the family.

(Mostly) Before:

(I always forget the before pictures & started painting before I remembered)

After:

I had to replace quite a few of the bottoms that were rusted out. I used coroplast scraps I got for free and they work great! We have about 30 hens and they pretty much use all the nests although it never fails to amuse when 5 hens are waiting to use one of them!

 

[hennchick]

There are 6 other boxes to use... Why do the double up????

 

[jboettner]

How do you keep water/rain from leaking in at the hinge?

 

[hennchick]

How do you keep water/rain from leaking in at the hinge?

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