Homemade Chicken Nesting Box Ideas Look around your property, you may be surprised by what you have laying about that would make an ideal and inexpensive nesting box. Nests need not be expensive and can often be provided for free or at minimal cost. Providing a nest doesn’t have to invol...
Homemade Chicken Nesting Box Ideas Look around your property, you may be surprised by what you have laying about that would make an ideal and inexpensive nesting box. Nests need not be expensive and can often be provided for free or at minimal cost. Providing a nest doesn’t have to invo...
While putting out a box and stuffing some hay inside might seem like a fairly simple task, that’s not quite enough. Having a “home” for your chickens to lay theireggsin can make all the difference. The good news is that it is possible to build a chicken coop and save money while ...
• We have a single nest box that opens on the outside, and it is really wide, so three or more hens can use it at once, but no dividers. We found the hens would use the same ones anyway and didn’t want to waste hubbies time build a bunch if they just choose favorites and ...
And homemade essential oil coop spray… And herbs in their nesting boxes… I realize I just sounded like a crazy-chicken-lady, but I do have reasons for doing all of those things. A-hem. Let’s talk about nesting box herbs in particular. A while back, I mentioned putting herbs in my...
But seriously, it really is cool looking … has ton of character … fits our family’s chicken theme … and was the solution to 2 problems I was dealing with. (And for those of you who don’t have chickens, a nesting box is just what it sounds like – where chickens go to nest ...