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Okay, here's an update. I actually did have a nest box connected to the coop accessible from inside, but when I originally built it, it was too small so I blocked it off and provided the outdoor nest boxes. Last week I opened the old small nest box and made it taller. DeeDee started laying in it...

Small coop up off the ground, essentially a roosting room, no room for nests. Not sure what seeing the nest boxes will tell you. There are two stacked atop one another, one is a converted cat litter box (the kind with a top), and the other is a wooden box inside a dog crate. This year the top...

Oh, and my nest boxes are outside of the coop, not connected.

I have 3 chickens and 2 nest boxes. Of course there's only one BEST nest box (though which one is best changes from year to year!) She laid her very first egg inside the coop, but laid in the nest box after that, until ... this strange pattern of 2-4 days in a row finding the eggs inside the...

One of my new girls (acquired this past spring) has been laying since the end of September, and occasionally I would find one of her eggs in the coop rather than the nest box. This past week, she's left eggs there 4 days in a row, and my main concern is that the shells often crack when they fall...