tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220083341574194792.post3660639086445185557..comments2023-03-25T09:40:10.826-04:00Comments on McGuire homestead: Slowing downstellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06134835581418849521noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7220083341574194792.post-29699713896181744372012-11-04T10:04:42.228-05:002012-11-04T10:04:42.228-05:00Hello Stella, we enjoy your blog and are learning ...Hello Stella, we enjoy your blog and are learning many good and useful things. We are Ted and Joyce and live in north central Arkansas. As voluntary transplants three years ago from Tulsa, OK, we had a lot to learn about country living -- and still do. <br />Last summer I built a chicken tractor to house our BR chicks, which was our first experience of raising chickens. I built three nesting boxes that are 14 inches up from the main coop floor, and I installed an intermediate step at 7 inches to help them step up and into the boxes. The boxes are nice and private with new wheat straw inside. But never mind, our three pullets, two of which have just starting laying, want nothing to do with them. They lay their eggs everywhere but there -- on the floor, in the run, even in the wood crib in the dirt. I didn't know I'd need to "train" them to use the nest boxes! Do you have any suggestions?ARRiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12502108073367056483noreply@blogger.com