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

[sadies chicks]

Here is ours, built by my great hubby

you can see the windows on the left

easy access windows on the side of the house, painted to look like windows from the distance

inside shot

 

[hannakat]

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Oh my....will you come to my house and build one of those?! It's awesome!

 

[CupOJoe42]

Question about the roll out nest boxes... what happens when you want the broody hens to hatch their own eggs? Do you have to use a different nest box, or is there a way to keep the eggs from rolling out? Sorry if this is a dumb question.. I'm a newbie and storing info for future reference.

 

[oneofseven]

This is an awsome thread. I would like to see a competition for the best coop/nest. I am sure some of the vendors would donate some prizes.

 

[gale65]

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I was wondering the same thing. It would be cool if the floor could be moved up level or down for eggs to roll out. After a while, you get to the point where you're really making things too complicated though, I think... (not YOU but a general "you").

 

[TruGritCkn]

Sadies Chicks, your coop is chickentastic! I love the window egg doors. Very creative with you coop.

 

[ladybug99]

my boyfriend built these with scrap wood.. there are 21 of them for 14 hens.... they use all but one of them

Since we have welsummers, they are very hard to tell apart.. so we call them what ever name is on the nesting box LOL

 

[Bantam Chase]

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when I first saw the names on there I thought " I wonder how they taught the girls to use their own box...." LOVE it!

 

[enggass]

If 14 of them are using 20 boxes, some have more than one name...

 

[oneofseven]

here's the one I use. It is made from a dresser drawer. I just slide out the nest for gathering and/or cleaning.