Easy nesting boxes for chickens

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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!

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...

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

DIY chicken nests can be as simple or creative as you choose them to be. And truly, anyone can make them. A DIY chicken nest is creative and can save money.

In an effort to make my life easier when collecting eggs, my husband came up with a good idea for adding nesting boxes to the outside of our existing coop. We wanted something that had a door so th…

I found some very functional looking nesting boxes at Walmart today. They are “Your Zone toy stacking bins” for around $7! The dimensions are 16 1/4" x 15...

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Nesting boxes with ladder

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

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…

Homemade, inexpensive, and much more convenient for cleaning. I used 2x4 boards for the frame with 12x11 wash tubs that I cut an opening at the front for the boxes.

I recently had a few free-range pullets (a young hen, less than a year old) lay eggs in the most random places. I have some easy tips on how to train chickens to lay in nesting boxes if you have this problem too. Chickens usually prefer their nesting boxes to lay in. They may have a bad habit of laying around somewhere else. These easy tips to train chickens to lay in their nesting box will help. I have been able to train my chickens to lay in their nesting boxes using these easy tips.

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

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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…

Nesting area of our hay wagon chicken tractor chicken coop. We use 5 gallon buckets to provide nesting boxes which are well sized and easy to clean. Each bucket can be removed and throughly cleaned and sanitized when necessary. Having shelves above the nesting boxes provides for easy and close storage for extra feed and bedding materials. The lower left shows the top of our dust bathing bucket constructed from a plastic tote and filled with sand it provides a great place for the chickens to…