- Jul 27, 2014
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Maybe I'm over thinking this.
My girls will be six months old in August, so we are officially on egg watch. They are free-range, but they go back and roost in their coop every night. There is a ledge there, where we have put straw for them to lay eggs. I'm wondering about two things.
1) Every coop design I've seen shows nesting BOXES for individual chickens. The way our coop was built, we didn't really have room for that, so it's just a shelf kind of thing. Right now, they are just pooping on it. I'm concerned they won't lay there because it's not boxes.
2) If they're sleeping in there, is it likely that's where they'll lay?
I would just hate to be watching for eggs and then realizing they're just laying them all over the pasture. UGH.
I hope to build a new, bigger coop next year, since we hope to get more pullets (We had some fox trouble this year, and lost almost half our flock), but I need to know if this will be okay for this year. Thanks in advance! -Nicole
My girls will be six months old in August, so we are officially on egg watch. They are free-range, but they go back and roost in their coop every night. There is a ledge there, where we have put straw for them to lay eggs. I'm wondering about two things.
1) Every coop design I've seen shows nesting BOXES for individual chickens. The way our coop was built, we didn't really have room for that, so it's just a shelf kind of thing. Right now, they are just pooping on it. I'm concerned they won't lay there because it's not boxes.
2) If they're sleeping in there, is it likely that's where they'll lay?
I would just hate to be watching for eggs and then realizing they're just laying them all over the pasture. UGH.
I hope to build a new, bigger coop next year, since we hope to get more pullets (We had some fox trouble this year, and lost almost half our flock), but I need to know if this will be okay for this year. Thanks in advance! -Nicole