Easy nesting boxes for chickens

Chicken nesting boxes can be considered as hen furniture and are important for your flock. Hens enjoy having a quiet spot where they can lay their eggs. Th

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Are you looking for a simple DIY chicken nest box solution? Make 5-gallon bucket nest boxes for your laying hens for free!

Looks great! Do you know what layout you are doing inside yet?

I built a coop for my chickens (8 birds) that is about 40 square feet. I then built some nest boxes, and they take up a lot of room in the coop. I have...

The Backyard Farms on Instagram: "DIY Nesting Boxes Using Crates! If you are designing them for your chickens to actually lay eggs in them, I would recommend using wood shavings or the laying pads that are made out of hay. They seem to like laying on those more. I use the turf pads as shown in this video but only for the ground when they sleep to catch the poop during the night. What have you used to create nesting boxes? . YT: JerrasGarden #diy #farmlife #farming #homesteading #homestead…

There are countless designs for chicken nesting boxes, but these are probably the easiest ones to make, and chickens love them!

Nowadays fewer and fewer people are posting letters. Which is a good thing though, because we get to use the mail boxes for projects like this one. We have already built this diy plastic tote nesting box and the diy plastic bucket nesting box for our coop. However, I absolutely fell in 'like' with this

The Most Critical Nest Box Tip #eggs #chickens #backyardchickens #joelsalatin #layinghens #farming

Jump links: The Outside of the Coop The Inside of the Coop The Two Separate Runs The Nesting Boxes Ever since we decided to make the big move from the PNW to N. Texas (in 2017), I’ve been dr…

Adding some aromatic herbs and edible flowers to your chickens' nesting boxes is not only pretty, it's practical.

Nesting boxes

This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, you can read my full disclaimer here. I recently had a few free-range pullets (a young hen, less than a year old) lay eggs in the most random places. Whether you are new to raising chickens or an old-time chicken owner, I have some easy tips on

Help! My Chickens Stopped Laying in Their Nesting Boxes. I'm sharing with you lots of tips to overcome this often encountered problem.

My nesting boxes for my chickens 🙂