I had for 10 chickens and one rooster. Only 4 box next. Found that mostly they used 2 of the next only and a few times a 3 nest to lay eggs in. I feed them in morning 2 qts of chicken pellits full size. Some in feeders and some sprinkle on ground cause chickens like to scratch. Late afternoon I would pick up my eggs. Got from the 10 chickens an average of 6 eggs. At that time I gave them one large cup of mash corn sprinkled on the ground. ... This made chickens eat the egg laying pellits first and corn much later. So got good eggs everyday..... Now my neighbor fed his chickens pellits and corn at sametime. ..Therefore he got less eggs then I and he had more chickens then I did. LOL kind of ticked him off when this happen. lol oh well got to learn. Now you have nice next as I see. But the best nest I had was a carb board box. Had end cut out and "Duck tape" around the area cut out for the chicken to enter. Otherwise when chickens set they get bored I guess. LOL so they pick on edges of anything near. One other thing I might mention. Use hay in the area they scratch in. This makes it easy to clean out the area and it will have to be down at times. Othewise your chickens will get what I call foot root on their feet. This can be bad and chickens will stop laying even. Don't mix chicken and turkey together.. that is a NO-NO. Chickens will scratch the ground and pick up waist from the turkeys! This waist in time will kill your chickens off. Neighbor lost many cause of the mix. But then he did not laugh at me no more when I told him about it months earlier.
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