Winter roosting improvement failure
My new Winter
roosting improvement project didn't seem to help.
Chickens still slept in the
nest box.
I might have to relocate the
box, but not before trying some nest curtains.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Persistence equals success (at least one time)
We had a batch of youngsters that tried to take up residence in the nest boxes. Curtains didn't deter them, as they seemed to be searching for a safe place out of site from the older flock that they joined. But with some 'guidance' they got the picture. We had a nesting box unit attached externally with its own external, hinged lid. So I just went out there after dusk and booted any nesting box birds out. Sometimes repeatedly. But they got the picture and quit the crap.:)
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— Sat Jan 4 16:58:48 2014
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