So yesterday I put a new bucket nest in the Big Chickenhouse. The first round one was a hit. The taller square one was not. So I went with a smaller round one.
It wasn’t quite deep enough to fill its space. I had a feeling about that. So this morning when I noticed fewer eggs than expected, I just lifted it out of there…
Yeah. I think what this situation calls for is hinged privacy doors on the wooden nesting boxes. Neighbor L stapled old dish towels over two of them and that didn’t have any effect, but I still think she was on the right track.
What about turning the rectangular one on it’s longer side? Did you try that?
The idea is for the remainder of the cover to hold in the bedding, and that’s the way those particular covers came. If that wasn’t going to work it made more sense to use the more common round buckets.