We Compared 6 Nesting Box Curtains. Measure the Drop First

Why the METERXITY 6-Pack wins this category

On the numbers, mostly. At $13.79 for six it works out at about $2.30 a curtain, the cheapest here, and roughly half the price of the $26.99 Dddzerong 6-Pack, which states neither a size nor a fibre.

It also does the basic thing the $26.99 Dddzerong 6-Pack does not: it tells you what you are buying. The listing names polyester, gives a size, and says the curtains close with snap buttons. The $26.99 Dddzerong 6-Pack describes its fabric only as thick and publishes no size at all, so that counts for something.

Living with the METERXITY 6-Pack

Six curtains suits a normal box row with a spare or two for wash day, which matters because nest box fabric gets soiled fast and none of these sets states a washing temperature.

Polyester is the practical fibre for a wet coop. It sheds water instead of soaking it up, and it dries in a fraction of the time untreated canvas takes. Hung over boxes that catch driven rain, that is a real advantage over the canvas sets here.

The snap buttons at the top are the other quiet strength. They fasten onto a rod or the frame above the box, which is a mechanical fixing that cannot fail in the way an adhesive one can.

Where the METERXITY 6-Pack falls short

Polyester is thin. In a coop with a draught running through it, a light curtain lifts every time the pop hole opens, and a lifting curtain is briefly not a curtain at all. If your boxes sit in moving air, the heavier canvas sets hang better.

The size figure needs handling with care. Four inches of drop across a 12 in opening would darken only the top third, which is not what the product photographs show, so treat 19.3 in x 4.3 in as the folded strip and measure your own opening before you order.

There is also no hardware in the pack. Snap buttons need something to button onto, and you will be screwing a batten or fitting a dowel above the boxes yourself.

Finally it is plain green with no pattern, which is purely cosmetic but worth knowing if the coop front is painted a colour you care about.

Why the Funria 6-Pack wins this category

It is the lowest cost per curtain of any canvas set here, across six openings. At $16.99 for six that is about $2.83 a curtain, against $3.20 for the five pack Klmnop White 5-Pack and $3.13 for the MOMWOW Yellow 5-Pack, both of which are also canvas but leave a six box row one curtain short.

Fabric weight is the reason to want canvas at all. A heavier curtain sits still. In a coop with air moving through it, a thin curtain lifts every time the pop hole opens, and a curtain that lifts is briefly not doing its job.

Living with the Funria 6-Pack

Six curtains is the right count for the most common backyard layout, a row of four to six boxes, and it leaves you a spare when one comes down covered in a broken egg.

The split design matters more than it sounds. Two halves let you tie or pin one side back for the first week, which is how you get pullets to accept a curtain instead of laying on the coop floor. A single sheet gives you no way to open it halfway.

The buttoned top is a mechanical fixing. Nothing about it can let go the way an adhesive strip can once coop dust and damp get at the glue.

Where the Funria 6-Pack falls short

Canvas has a real drawback and it is water. Untreated cotton canvas absorbs rain rather than shedding it, and a wet curtain hanging against nest bedding keeps the bedding damp underneath. If your boxes sit where wind-driven rain reaches them, the polyester METERXITY 6-Pack dries far faster.

The size figure is the same problem the whole category has. Nineteen inches by four inches cannot be the hang across a 12 in opening, so that number is the folded strip and you cannot order to it. Measure your box before you buy.

There is no hardware in the pack either. Buttons need a rod or a batten above the opening and you supply both.

Finally, do not read canvas as heavy. The whole pack of six weighs 0.46 lb, which is about 1.2 oz a curtain, so this is light cotton sheeting rather than the stiff duck the word usually brings to mind. It still hangs better than the polyester METERXITY 6-Pack, and it is not a thick curtain.

Why the MOMWOW Yellow 5-Pack wins this category

Because it is the one listing here that publishes a drop you can believe. The size field gives 21.7 in wide by 16.2 in long. On a 12 in opening that is a curtain that reaches the bottom, which is the whole point of hanging one.

That figure also solves the puzzle running through this category. The same listing carries a bullet saying 19 in x 4 in, the identical figure four of these six sets quote. Seeing both numbers on one page is good evidence that the 4 in figure is the folded strip in the packet and not the hang.

If your boxes are taller than the usual 12 in, this is the set to start with.

Living with the MOMWOW Yellow 5-Pack

Canvas is the right fibre for a coop with air moving through it. It hangs with enough weight to stay put, where a light synthetic curtain lifts every time the pop hole swings.

The split door design gives you the introduction trick that makes the difference with pullets. Tie one half back for the first few days so the box still reads as open, then let it down. Birds that have never laid before are the ones most likely to refuse a curtained box.

Yellow is a strong colour for a coop front, so look at it against your paint before ordering. It is at least named in the listing along with the pattern, where the Dddzerong 6-Pack describes neither its fabric nor its finish.

Where the MOMWOW Yellow 5-Pack falls short

The self-contradiction cuts both ways. A listing that publishes two sizes that disagree by 12 in is a listing you cannot order to with confidence, and if the bullet figure is the true one then this curtain covers the top third of the opening and nothing more.

Five curtains is an awkward count. Most coops run four to six boxes, and at six you are one short, with a second pack leaving four spare curtains and $15.65 spent for one hanging.

Canvas here has the usual water problem. It soaks rather than sheds, and a wet curtain resting against nest bedding keeps the bedding damp underneath it.

There is no hardware in the pack, so the buttons want a rod or a screwed batten you provide yourself.

Why the Klmnop White 5-Pack wins this category

On looks, mostly, and that is a fair reason to pick between products that are otherwise close. White canvas with a chicken pattern is the set that vanishes against a whitewashed or pale painted coop, where the green METERXITY 6-Pack and the blue Dddzerong Oxford stand out.

Underneath the colour it does the sensible things. It names canvas as the fibre, it states a size, and it buttons at the top rather than sticking on with adhesive. The Dddzerong 6-Pack will not tell you what its fabric is at all, and it costs more.

Living with the Klmnop White 5-Pack

Canvas is the heavier of the two common fibres here and it stays down when air moves through the coop. That matters more than most buyers expect, because a curtain that lifts every time the pop hole opens is briefly not a curtain.

The split door design is what lets you introduce it gradually. Pin or tie one half back for the first several days so the opening still looks familiar, then let it down. Pullets about to lay for the first time are the birds most likely to refuse a box that has changed.

At $15.99 for five it works out at about $3.20 a curtain, which is the highest price per curtain of the four buttoned sets here, though still well under the $4.60 a curtain of the Dddzerong Oxford.

Where the Klmnop White 5-Pack falls short

White is the honest problem. A nest box is a dusty place with droppings and the occasional broken egg in it, and white canvas records all of that. No washing temperature is published, which is a gap across this whole category but hurts most on the colour that needs washing soonest.

The size figure has the same fault as the rest. Nineteen inches by four inches cannot be the drop on a 12 in opening, so treat it as the folded packet dimension and measure your own box before ordering.

Five curtains is the wrong count for a six box row. You end up one short, and the second pack leaves four curtains unused.

No hardware is included either, so budget a length of timber or a dowel above the boxes for the buttons to fasten to.

Why the Dddzerong Oxford wins this category

For the fabric. 420D Oxford is a coated synthetic, and it is the easiest material in this comparison to clean in place. When a hen breaks an egg in the box you take a damp cloth to it, rather than unbuttoning the curtain, washing it and hanging it to dry while the box stands open. The canvas sets have to come down.

It is also one of only two sets, with the MOMWOW Yellow 5-Pack, that states a size you can measure against. Thirty centimetres long by 24 cm wide is roughly 11.8 in by 9.4 in, and while that is narrower than we would like, it is at least an honest number rather than the folded 19 in x 4 in figure four of these sets quote.

Oxford sheds water too, which is exactly what the canvas sets here do not do.

Living with the Dddzerong Oxford

The velcro fixing is the reason to consider it for boxes that have no frame above them. Nothing to drill, nothing to thread a dowel through, just a strip stuck above the opening. On a moulded plastic box, or the underside of a lid, that is genuinely easier than the buttoned sets.

The split design gives you the same gradual introduction you get with the canvas curtains. Fold one half back for the first few days so the birds still see an open box.

Five pieces suits a coop with four or five boxes and a spare, though it comes up short across a six box row.

Where the Dddzerong Oxford falls short

The adhesive is the failure point and it is a predictable one. Coop plywood is dusty, often damp, and cycles through big temperature swings. Peel-and-stick backing does not hold for long in that, and when it lets go the curtain ends up in the bedding. Plan to staple the fixed side of the velcro to the wood from day one.

Width is the other worry. Twenty-four centimetres is under 10 in, and a standard nest box opening is around 12 in across. That leaves visible gaps at both edges unless your boxes are unusually narrow, and a gap at the side of a curtain is a clear view of the egg.

At $22.99 for five it works out at about $4.60 a curtain, the highest per curtain figure in this guide and twice the METERXITY 6-Pack.

Why the Dddzerong 6-Pack wins this category

For one property the others do not have: you can cut it. Every buttoned set in this guide arrives at a fixed size with the fastening sewn into the top edge, and trimming one ruins it. This set sticks on with adhesive and can be shortened or narrowed to match whatever opening you built.

That matters if your nest boxes came out of a sheet of plywood and a Saturday afternoon rather than a factory. Home built boxes are rarely 12 in square, and a curtain that misses at one edge is a clear view of the egg.

Six curtains also covers a normal box row with a spare, which the five packs here do not.

Living with the Dddzerong 6-Pack

Installation is the easy part. There is no rod to thread, no batten to screw and nothing to drill, so it works on moulded plastic boxes and on the underside of a lid where a buttoned curtain has nowhere to fasten.

The fabric is described as thick, which is at least the right direction. A heavier curtain hangs still where a light one lifts in a draught.

If your coop has fewer boxes, a 4-pack of the same product is listed, so you are not forced into six.

Where the Dddzerong 6-Pack falls short

The information gap is the real cost. No size is stated anywhere. No fibre is named. Thick fabric is not a specification, and without a fibre you cannot tell whether it will shed rain like Oxford or hold it like untreated canvas. Every other set in this guide tells you at least one of those two things.

The adhesive backing is the same weakness the Dddzerong Oxford has. Coop plywood is dusty and damp and swings through wide temperature changes, and peel-and-stick fixings give up in that environment. Staple the fixed half or screw a thin batten across, and do it when you hang them rather than after one falls into the bedding.

Then there is the price. At $26.99 this is the highest pack price in the comparison, about $4.50 a curtain, roughly double the $2.30 a curtain of the METERXITY 6-Pack. You are paying the most here for the listing that tells you the least.