Lee made an update to the chicken coop. After I put straw in the nesting boxes all the hens decided that it was a perfectly lovely place to lay their eggs. (Here I was thinking that it was going to be a pain to get them to stop laying on the floor of the coop and it wasn’t.) Except there wasn’t a lip on the nesting boxes so the straw kept getting scratched out. That made it so a few of the eggs ended up getting hairline cracks in them from popping out the hen butts onto the wood box.

Lee made a wood bracket, screwed it onto the wall, then slid a board into the first slot against the wall to make a 3 1/2″ lip. A second board was screwed onto the outside of the bracket to make a roost. The roost allows our fat-butted hens to still make it into their nesting boxes with the smaller opening.

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