Why cut a hole in the bucket? Just lay it down, put a rock/brick on either side so it doesn’t roll, and put your nesting material in it.
Jean
From: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Laura A. Roberts
Allen,
My husband and I were discussing this the other day. He is going to cut a big round hole in a five gallon buck—low enough for the chicken to be able to step into the bucket. We’ll put the lid on it and some hay inside and sit a wooden egg in it to give them the idea that the place is safe for their eggs.
We have lots of free ranging hens that don’t feel like walking back to the coops to lay their eggs. Sometimes we’ll find them in the middle of the barnyard, on the ground. Like “whoops, that slipped out on accident!’
Our biggest problem is the renegades that decide to lay their eggs on the fourth and fifth level of stacked hay in the hay barn. Nothing like moving a bale of hay and having eggs roll down on your head!
We also have renegade guineas that lay their eggs in the bushes. I found a nest with about 15 eggs in it last Fall. I told my dh and we went to check on them a day or so later and they were all gone, but no signs of shells or hatching. We had a fox hanging about and it might have found them OR my sneaky egg sucking dog, Lulu found them. My dh found her IN THE COOP last week, helping herself to eggs!
Laura
Laura Roberts
R Half Pint Farm
Spotsylvania, VA
CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
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