Ensure Secure and Comfortable Nesting Boxes

you ours this is an outside nesting box area right here i've got a latch on it you've got to have a latch raccoons will get up under here and push this up and get into your chickens inside this little area right here we have straw okay and the chickens have already laid eggs in this straw i just fixed this up yesterday so that i could show you guys what you need to do in order to keep your chickens from pecking their eggs and also get them laying in the appropriate spot so you've got to have good nesting in here good bedding and what we just used was hay you can go buy a bale of straw sawdust and shavings is not appropriate bedding in my opinion straw is where it's at because you want the chicken to have a dark little cave to go in and feel safe and lay their eggs okay now what we have down in these laying boxes is something that's really cool and that really helps to teach the chickens not to peck their eggs so if