Show easy to induce turkey hens to use box nests slake make wing laying coops tor for turkey hens hena with no bottom so the nest will get the moisture from the ground make the dimensions 4 by 4 feet and high enough with a one slope roof advises a writer in the indiana farmers Far mera guide the entrance should be 14 by 14 inches the four sides are made of building lath and nailed on just like a wall to be plastered locate the coops about yards from your residence in a circle some distance apart the hens watching others especially on bad days will learn to use these coops this being about for far enough away so the chicken hens will not disturb the nesting by scratching it out of place after af ter forming a trashy nest place a nest egg as a turkey hen likes the looks its of an egg before she sits on the nest even the first time the openings in the coop are very important as peep holes as the turkey hens always keep a sharp lookout while on the nest and will not go into a dark place to make their nest |