Chest of Drawer Chicken Nest Box

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New flock owners are always on the chase for artistic chicken nesting box ideas, so nosotros asked ourBackyard Poultry readers to share their suggestions, pictures, and advice! Take a look at these fun and original nesting boxes, upcycled from items effectually the firm and subcontract or purchased on the inexpensive. Who knew you could get and so much life out of Domicile Depot buckets, milk crates, kitty litter containers, and even mailboxes! Plus, don't miss these tips on the best bedding for chickens to make certain your bedding options are safe and comfy.

• BELOW: Our newest nest box … the girls love it. — Jennie Adeski Jones

• BELOW: Our nesting boxes, our small-scale barn. — Jodi Vaske

• Beneath: I employ a nesting trough so no one fights over the aforementioned box … if there'due south a favorite spot then they have the selection of laying next to the current user if they tin't look their turn.— Veronica Roberts

• Plastic potato bins. I stacked four of them. Have nine hens. They simply use the bottom one. — Andrew Phillippi

• Milk crates.— Nick French

• Below: An sometime closet. — Fawn Stammen

• BELOW: 5-gallon buckets with a two×four across the lesser of the open end. — John Mueller

• Beneath: Plastic baskets. They're then much easier to clean. — Julie Raine

• BELOW: Plastic Home Depot buckets. Hubby fabricated a wooden stand up and they slide in and out for cleaning. — Lisa Adams

• My husband and I use old plastic totes upside down with a hole cutting in them so the tin can arrive and out. — Heather Preston

• BELOW: I got this from a young couple that makes and sells them for extra cash. I am still looking for license plates to cover the rest of the acme and sides, and defunction are next on my list. — Jennifer Shcaer Jackson

• They don't use them. So basically an uncovered cubby, they all lay in the same cubby also. — James Vriana Beaulieu

• One coop I have 5-gallon buckets and we utilize harbinger/hay in them and the other coop we have dish pans with pine shavings in them. We fabricated costless-continuing shelves with steep roofs and then no one nest on/in them. — Jennifer Thompson

• Forest wine boxes. — Kelley Jane Kloub

• Below: We modified wooden crates, that are lined with a thick plastic mat and straw. The chicken love these boxes and oftentimes want to sleep in them. I had to put something over them because the chickens would roost on the sides and poop in them. Simply these have worked for well over a year. The burlap shades shake off easily and dry easily when sprayed off. — Amanda Currey

• I thousand ade boxes from plywood and use straw for bedding .— Marker Pieklik

• Below — Amey Walker McDow

• In our coop and outside hut nosotros actually use a square shoe organizer cubby we bought at Menards. In the stalls, we take regular aluminum nest boxes. — Leah Mae Johnson

• Chick-Due north-Nesting boxes…they turn anything into a coop! — Danielle Sechler-Gunther

• BELOW: Old metal ones. — Sharleen Beth McGaw Hendrickson

• Metal 10-hole nesting boxes. — Lyndsay Grummet

• Dish pans. — Christine R. Hupper

• BELOW — Nancy Powell

• We have a single nest box that opens on the exterior, and it is really wide, then 3 or more hens can employ it at once, just no dividers. We found the hens would utilise the same ones anyway and didn't desire to waste product hubbies time build a bunch if they just cull favorites and share anyhow. — Ericca Colby

• Beneath: My son built my minor coop as a birthday present! The nest box is plywood. — Becky Mishler

• Beneath: We built a custom iii-tier box to fit a vintage window. It's so dainty to be able to see in to notice the eggs. — Lori Jordan

• BELOW: Lots of Dengie craven bedding. — Tine Ton

• I have wooden boxes built into a stall in the barn that are difficult to clean. They don't drain so I put a plastic tub in each 1 with harbinger. Now when an egg breaks it doesn't stick to the wood and make a mess. And it'south much easier now to change out the bedding. — Susan Everett

• Below: An old play kitchen. — Holly Matherne

• Store-bought wooden boxes and I use pino shaving for bedding. — Jenny Leslie

• BELOW — Christi Jones

BELOW: My bantam'due south love this one. — Christi Jone

• BELOW: I congenital it into the coop. I have access to the two nests from the outside. I placed the eggs in the nests to get the ladies motivated. They are correct at 22 weeks sometime so nosotros should be getting eggs any 24-hour interval! — Scott Branch

• Beneath: Plastic crates with peak flaps. — Kymberly White

• Milk crates. — Rodney Marical

• Beneath: These are built into the wall and attainable from the outside of the coop. — John Johnson

• Beneath— Mamahen Shaw

• 5-gallon buckets. Simply lay them on their sides and prop up the forepart with a cake of wood or a brick, works nifty! — Jacqueline Taylor Robson

• Boxes built onto the dorsum of the coop. — Karla Redden

• Kids bookcases. — Mary Dorcey

• Dishpans from the dollar store. I sized the partitions to fit and keep a few cleaned and ready to go in. They also are removable from the
exterior via a hatch. — Mike Hilbig

• Beneath: T hey have space simply lay in the same nest.— Ericca Colby

•Beneath — Carrie Miller

• Below— Kenan Tufekcic

• Below: Kitty litter hooded pan. Piece of cake to clean. — Chris Carena

• BELOW: Babe changing tabular array. — April Wilson Brown

• BELOW: I employ the black plastic fruit and vegetable packing cases. Lots of room, though you wouldn't believe it and very easy to scrub clean!— Eileen Thomas

• Former speaker boxes. — Janene Duffy

• I bought an viii nest condo from Farm Tek. They love it. I also smash upward milk crates they are great for perches. — Carolyn Ellis Niven

• BELOW: Bootleg boxes. — Sandra Nevins Bailey

• BELOW — Carrie Isenhouer Cushman

• Boxes built onto the side of the coop that I tin access easily. I put straw in them. — Courtney Crawford

• BELOW — Isabella O'Mahony

• Below: Milk crates with pine shaving. — Mike's Misc Sales

• Beneath: We recycle and work was gonna throw this soda rack out! — Kristin Ransiear

• Beneath: The Booda … they can be relocated out of the coop then they don't lay in the thousand. And they tin be sanitized if they become dirty. They wait in line and also share if they're impatient. — Donna Nelson

• Beneath: Kitty litter buckets! — Tanya Pribyl Manthie

• Beneath— Tammie Beckner

• Old subwoofer box. — Chuck Sturm

• Bogus grass.— Sharron Lowe

• Tool bins. — William Poling

• Lawnmower catcher with wood shavings from hubby'southward toy making. — Kia Ora Dawnie Angell

• Nosotros fabricated viii boxes and they all use the same one. — Molly Scott

• We fabricated boxes from plywood & 2x4s. We use pine shavings equally that's what they have preferred. I've tried straw and even horse bedding merely they similar pine shavings. — Carrie Domerchie

• BELOW— Krista Johnson

• BELOW: Vino boxes. — Siry Bromley

• Bucket — Jill Rogers

• Below— Kristen Cutlip

• BELOW: My newest rollaway nest boxes. — Julianne Seguin

• Below: I use cat litter containers. — Kristen Barton

• I congenital my chickens nest boxes, just they preferred laying in discarded sinks and old toilets that were dumped on the ranch I was cleaning up. — Kayla Chang

• Milk crates. — Tom Oates

• The bottom half of a cat carrier. — Brenda Givens

• BELOW: Wood shavings in a renovated dresser. Our first successful mama hen. — April Gardner

• Plastic cat litter buckets on their side with the larger part of the cover removed, leaving the smaller part to exist a 'stopper' so the shavings don't get kicked out as much. — Diane Allen

• BELOW: Old potting planters. — Angi Toth

• BELOW: They are plastic. My husband then screwed them into the wall and put a footling board in front. The girls love them! I accept 10 hens and they utilise all three every mean solar day. Well, 1 picayune diva lays on the floor right underneath simply the residue use them daily.

• Dishpans from the dollar shop lined with wood fries. — Vicki Campbell

• BELOW: My husband built this for me. — Liz Kinyk

• Beneath: They're numbered because the fronts are removable for cleaning, and were made for each box (non interchangeable). Makes it easier for me. — Ruth Ann Clark

• BELOW— Tracy Joan Case

• I must be the simply person here that does not similar to enter the pen to collect eggs, mine are fix up in such a way I collect externally. — JR Wallis

• Beneath: We used these bins from Lowe'south and screwed them through the bottom. Girls absolutely love them. — Elisabeth Nyenhuis

• Thrashed flax stalks filled 5-gallon buckets. I have a stack of milk crates I slide them into, or I just besprinkle them around the coop. — Kitsune Nyx

• BELOW:— Bonnie Williams

• Plastic lawnmower catchers. — Susan Glambert

• Beer boxes. — Andrew Sherman

• BELOW: 5-gallon bucks with holes drilled in the bottom so when I clean them the water can drain out. No curtains, that is just added work to go on clean. Simple is amend. — Trish Haygood Hutchison

• Below— Jen Fletcher

• An former chest of drawers, drawers from an onetime refrigerator, and onetime car tires. — Joanne Russell

• BELOW: One-time computer screens take out screen and wiring they honey them. — Sue Jones

• BELOW: Dwelling house Depot buckets. — Beth Ann Henry Smith

• BELOW: Freebies from my son'due south work. — Christine Cowling

• Beneath — Deloris Marie Bursott Mills

• Beneath: I found some old large mailboxes someone threw away and cut the backs out. I mounted them in the front wall of my coop then I can just open the mailbox door and reach right within! — Marilyn Colina Baxter