Hen Nesting Boxes
This is something like a wooden box, about 10 inches square, with a top and sides, but open at 1 side for the hen to enter. A slit in the top of Nesting Box helps ventilate the nest. An inclined top prevents roosting on the nesting box with its attendant manure collection. Cover half the open side with wood, or cover all the open side with a curtain of cloth that's slit to let a chicken hop through. It should be relatively dim inside. Hens like dark, comfy, private places to do their thing in. An instant nesting place can be made by leaning a sheet of plywood, or anything similar, against
the chicken-house wall. They'll lay between the sheet and the wall. Put hay, chopped straw, wood shavings, or some such, in the nesting place for the hen to nestle down in. Change the nest litter occasionally, when hen nesting boxes gets dirty. Nail a nesting box, 2 feet high or so, up on your chicken-house wall. You can put them in a row. Supply 1 hen nesting box for each 4 layers more or less.
Pullets, just laying their first eggs, are liable to drop them anywhere, and that can't be helped. Some hens may be tempted to make a nest in a corner of your hen house on the floor. That is a problem because it may result in the development of egg-eating by hens. Stop it by picking up the eggs and clearing away the "nest."
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