Pallet Shed Finished Help with nest boxes

Fire2920 · « **on:** April 28, 2008, 21:55 »

Right pallet shed finished, now for the nest boxes what size and design should i make them? pictures would be great

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #1 on:** April 28, 2008, 21:59 »

Lovely job you made of that shed! Looks really neat and tidy and sturdy Even Brian is impressed, and that aint easy as he's a carpenter by trade!!! Are you going to do external nest boxes, or internal? Ours are external, so it gives the chooks more room inside the shed. They are just over 1 foot long, wide and high! and the roof lifts hinges up for easy egg collecting, except for the shed with my posh nestboxes in, I have to go inside the shed for those ones!

Lee1978 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 28, 2008, 22:12 »

The shed looks amazing, well done

Fire2920 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 28, 2008, 22:17 »

Internal boxes for now, there will be 9 hens so how many boxes will i need?

Thanks for the advice GrannieAnnie

james419 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2008, 06:39 »

Fantastic job - could not tell it was made from pallets - we have 7 layers and 3 boxes and that seems enough they are quite happy

Fire2920 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2008, 08:11 »

Right so......it sounds like 5 boxes will be enough,learning all the time,i suppose the hens will teach me a thing or two as well

weeeed · « **Reply #6 on:** April 29, 2008, 12:16 »

Can I borrow you please!!! You have done a really good job I hope you are proud of yourself. It looks better than the ones you pay a fortune for.

poultrygeist · « **Reply #7 on:** April 29, 2008, 12:25 »

Brilliant !!. You can be proud of that. And with Brian's praise too.

Rob

Fire2920 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2008, 15:26 »

Thanks for the lovely comments will take some more pics in a couple of weeks when the hens are in and some of the veg is planted :compress:

Celtic Eagle · « **Reply #9 on:** April 30, 2008, 13:12 »

Certainly is a cool shed well done

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #10 on:** April 30, 2008, 13:51 »

They reckon up to five hens per nest box, but I'd say with 9 hens, 3 will do, or 4 if you're planning on getting any more chooks!

Our 12 layers shared 3 nest boxes quite successfully until they got their new shed, now they've got 10 nest boxes to choose from!!!! lol

Fire2920 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 13, 2008, 19:47 »

So been a week or two and the hens are in

they are very happy with there new hen house and are all laying. Mind you all 6 are laying in the same box

the other 4 boxes are just for show at the moment. All 5 boxes look the the same to me, wondering why they stand crossed legged waiting to go into box 2

peapod · « **Reply #12 on:** May 13, 2008, 21:48 »

amazing shed!! I cant believe its from pallets
what a great job!!

Oliveview · « **Reply #13 on:** May 24, 2008, 19:20 »

Are you sure the shed didn´t come from the DIY shop?

? It looks brilliant.

Are you useful about the house too?

??

Pamela

Fire2920 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 31, 2008, 19:18 »

Right the hen house is up and running, hens, eggs, cockerel all you could ask for. Now for something we can shelter in even maybe make some home brew

Its a good start, but we are in need of a load of pallets to clad it. The black polly sheeting is keeping us dry in the showers, but we can not wait to get it finished. More pics to follow

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Pallet Shed Finished Help with nest boxes

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