Urbanchicken62
Songster
It's amazing, but chickens have been figuring out how to do this for a long time all on their own. They get up and eat and drink once or twice a day and really don't need any special attention. You do have to pick up eggs regularly out of any other egg boxes, because they will get up to eat and then sit on the wrong eggs. Also, after the chicks hatch move mom and the chicks out of your egg box to another location in your coop. If you let mom keep the chicks in your egg box too long its hard to break the chicks from sleeping in the eggs box at night. 4 week old chicks and mom sleeping in an egg box at night is a pile of poop in your egg box! I have a rabbit cage that I put in the floor of the coop to give mom and the chicks a semi private spot away from other hens.