According to the chicken books a nesting box should be 12 x 12 for the comfort of a chicken when laying an egg. Well, due to the design of our coop our nesting box is 15 x 25. I could've made two separate smaller boxes but with the sloping roof the door had to be in the middle. Thus, I thought it best to have one bigger box. Now we have found eggs at one end or the other and sometimes at both, but we have never seen two chickens sharing the box at the same time. Annie is a year old and Scrappy is two. They are both rather calm and submissive girls, but even this is a stretch for them.
A peek through the door - Annie & Scrappy.
From above it resembles a "two-holer" outhouse!
Sure enough, 2 chickens = 2 eggs.
Apparently girls go to the ladies room together in the animal kingdom too!
Chicken Humor:
What do you call a chicken coop with four doors?
A chicken Sedan!
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