How to Make a Chicken Nest

Video Transcript

"I am Dr. T.K. Roy speaking on behalf of Expert Village. Another important aspect is providing nests. When you provide a nest, so that the birds can go inside the nests and they can, you know, become very comfortably acclimatized within the nest and they will start laying eggs inside the nests. That is an instinct of the bird that when they become adults and when they feel that they will start laying very soon, they look for a very secluded corner and, you know, the little darker areas for sit before they give their eggs. So, provide nests. Nests can be made of many items, many materials. It can be made of wood. It can be made of, you know, it can be made of even tin. But tin will be, you know, it will become hot during summer months and the birds will feel uncomfortable. So better you use the, you know, wooden boxes to make them into a nest. So there are different sizes. Now height should be about fifteen to eighteen inches and depth should be about another fifteen to eighteen inches and the length and breadth should be about fourteen to fifteen inches, having a hole in between, about eight centimeters, I mean eight inches in diameter so that the birds can go inside the box. And you provide some bedding material inside the box, like the bedding straw or the wheat straw or that kind of thing so that the bird can go inside, sit on those materials and wait for the eggs to come. And, in that way, if you provide, you know, the nest, they will prefer to go inside the nest, there will be less eggs on the floor, and the chances of breakage will be less and collection of the eggs will be much easier because eggs will be laid inside the boxes mostly, so one can go and collect the eggs from the nests. Thank you very much."