We came up with an idea for housing gravid female hogs and other colubrids when keeping them in a rack system. Instead of offering a nest box, we are making the entire rack bin a nest box. It offers the female a much wider range of nesting options.



We are using a plastic lid that fits perfectly into some of our rack draws but you can use plywood.



We fill the rack bin with about 5 inches of cocopeat and cover it with the lid that we drilled a hole in so the female can enter the nesting area under it.



All you need to do after that is add your substrate of choice on top. Now the female will hae normal conditions on top and nesting conditions right below.



We wanted to do ths to make nesting a bit more natural for the female. I can not help but notice how many people use long spagnum moss and see how odd it looks to see eggs just getting scattered all over the incubation containers and rolling around. It just seems un-naural, odd, and out of place.



Here are a couple of pics.

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