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I don't put chips in my boxes. I ordered nesting pads from some online place. They work well to cushion the 'fall' of the egg
I need those! I use shredded junk mail, but some of the girls shove the paper out and the eggs crack when they hit the wood.
I guess mine don't shove the paper out because I'm using an old covered kitty litter box for the nest box they prefer to use, and it's on the floor of the coop ... has a 5 inch high front before the opening starts, so they'd have to kick material really HIGH to get it out --- they do occasionally use a small plastic cat carrier that I have in the run ... which has only a one-inch lip to it --- and they don't use the two stacked-up recycle bins at all (they still have all the paper in them that I put there originally)
could also be because the box is a relatively soft plastic, and slightly mounded so it doesn't all sit in contact with the coop floor (actually there's a layer of sand about an inch thick under it), that the gals don't bounce the eggs around much --- and yes, I've found five eggs at a time sitting in there, and seen three hens in at a time (with another one or two sticking their heads in)
it's amusing because they really have to SNUGGLE to get in there together, usually just one hen occupies enough floor space that you'd swear there was no extra room
I don't put chips in my boxes. I ordered nesting pads from some online place. They work well to cushion the 'fall' of the egg
I need those! I use shredded junk mail, but some of the girls shove the paper out and the eggs crack when they hit the wood.
I guess mine don't shove the paper out because I'm using an old covered kitty litter box for the nest box they prefer to use, and it's on the floor of the coop ... has a 5 inch high front before the opening starts, so they'd have to kick material really HIGH to get it out --- they do occasionally use a small plastic cat carrier that I have in the run ... which has only a one-inch lip to it --- and they don't use the two stacked-up recycle bins at all (they still have all the paper in them that I put there originally)
could also be because the box is a relatively soft plastic, and slightly mounded so it doesn't all sit in contact with the coop floor (actually there's a layer of sand about an inch thick under it), that the gals don't bounce the eggs around much --- and yes, I've found five eggs at a time sitting in there, and seen three hens in at a time (with another one or two sticking their heads in)
it's amusing because they really have to SNUGGLE to get in there together, usually just one hen occupies enough floor space that you'd swear there was no extra room
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