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Beautiful work. You coulda made smaller nests, 1/2 the size in all dimentions. The top ones are ok, the bottom ones would be the pain.... Tough to get the eggs out. 2 or 3 rows of nests using 1/2 the space, not as low, woulda made for happier chickens - they want a small secure area when looking for a nest, off the ground a little. Chickens like to have a roost to sleep on - 2x with a screen nailed to the bottom edges so the poop falls through and no chickens can get below. They do a lot of pooping at this time, nice to have a spot they can't get to where it all falls. You want that someplace else than where the nests are. In front of the nests, a couple inches away, you want a 1x3 (or 2 1x2 is better, and flat, so the 3-4 inches is the top surface) or so as a landing pad for the chickens to land on, & hop into the nest. They will not like flying up & dropping into the edge of the nest (tho your large nests should work out for this) they will prefer the flatter ledge in front a few inches. Worst part of your 2x ledge nailed directly to the front is they will want to use this for the roost, and will tend to poop in the nests..... To use the top nests, they need enough airspace to hop/fly up there. Think it will work, but you have a small building, not so much space in there for them to get a run & fly at it. On the 3-tier nests we had, the bottom landing roost was a foot out, the top landing roost was only 2-3 inches out, giving them a bit of a ladder effect as you mention. They like to land on a flat surface, like to roost on a 2x surface. You can control where they do what with that info.... But, lovely work, don't want to be critical. Wow, just for chickens!!!! --->Paul
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