The Chicken Laying Boxes are Finished!

Steve and I had to have the chicken laying boxes finished by the time they were 4.5 months old.

Last night he finished.  The chickie doodles are 21 weeks old now!  *WHEW*

I had to research... always researching.  What did we ever do without computers??

So I found a man that had used dish pans for the nesting boxes. If an egg breaks or it gets soiled, you just remove the dishpan, wash, put fresh hay in and replace.  So that is what we did!  I sure hope it works.


Here is the box from the front view.

Each cubby hole is 12"x12"x15" deep - which is supposed to be perfect for our feathered friends.


The view from the top - the eggs you see in there are ceramic eggs.  They are to 'encourage' the girls to lay.  We shall see.

My girls are supposed to lay colored eggs; browns, blues and greens.  I can't wait to see if they do!  

Now we just have to install the laying boxes in the coop.  That is the last major step of finishing it. We have a bit of touch up paint to do, but it is hot.  We will wait until it cools down a bit. The girls don't seem to mind at all.

Neither do the two roosters.

They just crow and crow.

GRRRR!!!