[Ag-eq] garden, chicks, horses

[Susan Roe]

Hi Jody,

It is common for 3 or so hens to use the same nest box.  I have 6 nest 
boxes, three on top of three, in each hen house and I have had as many as 20 
hens in each coop.  When I strip down each coop for a yearly maintenance, I 
want to put a plastic cat litter box on the floor in the corner of each 
coop.  That way, when the determined little hen decides she had rather lay 
on the floor, she will have the litter box with cedar bark shavings to 
choose from.  Then I can just pull the box to me and check it for eggs 
instead of trying unsuccessfully to reach them.  I usually have to get Matt 
to check the coop corners under the hen boxes.  The ones who lay outside the 
hen boxes are the less dominate hens who get pushed out of the upper boxes.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jody Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] garden, chicks, horses


> Hi Nella,
>
> Yes, we have a row of nest boxes but all the hens use the same box.  I
> wonder if this is so they can all take turns sitting on the eggs keeping
> them all safe in the same place rather then spreading them out.
>
> JODY
>
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