More Nesting Boxes

We had heard that four chickens will happily share two nesting boxes. When Lou started laying her eggs on the floor of the coop instead of inside one of the nesting boxes, we thought it was just a passing phase for the neophyte layer. When it started to look like no, she REALLY likes the floor, we decided it was time to bend to the ways of a stubborn white leghorn. Papa Hen spent a few hours on Sunday afternoon cutting out an additional nesting box door and constructing two more nesting areas.  

 

Here is the hard-working husband, mid-project.  He is on the outside where he cut the door.  See that wooden divider on the bottom?  That created the two additional nesting boxes on the bottom. 

Here he is putting the door together.  Behind the husband is the black compost bin where the chicken waste is cooking for next year's garden.  Beside him is one of our five huge tomato plants . 

 The second door is made, hinges on tight, and the handle is on, but something is missing.

There it is, the latch.  We have to be sure that the four chickens are safe from predators.

 

Two doors, two handles, two latches, two caribeners.





 

Four nesting boxes, four golf balls.  Thanks, Lou Chicken, for motivating us to do a little remodeling of Red Door Coop.  The husband's weekend to-do list was not long enough already!