Authors: Peter T. Bromley, Extension Specialist, Wildlife, Virginia Tech; Kurt A. Buhlmann, Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Fisheries and Widlife Sciences, Virginia Tech; Louis A. Helfrich, Extension Specialist, Fisheries, Virginia Tech.
Publication Number 420-802, Posted January 1998
Figure 6 It is possible to place two or more nest boxes on the same structure. Although multiple nest boxes have been successful, researchers have observed that fighting among nesting birds can lead to desertion. Dump nesting, the placement of eggs in the nest of other hens by hens that do not incubate their own eggs, has been observed in multiple nests.
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