Love the paint pans. I would have never thought of that. You could keep a couple of extra pans hanging around. Incase you need to clean the pans out and don't have time. Quick and easy, just switch them out. Thanks, going to use this idea.
Thanks so much for this video! We have been having an egg eating problem for awhile now, and we slapped some paint trays in the nesting box this afternoon, modified the box like you show, and had an egg roll down behind the board in no time. What a great, easy fix.
I'm just finding this now as I am researching how to design and build my first coop and this is definitely the *easiest* idea I am stumbled upon so far for the roll-away system! I don't know anything about construction but I am planning a pallet coop build and I am absolutely going to try this! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the simple and cheap yet elegant and effective solution. Overnight I have gone from collecting broken and dirty eggs to perfect pristine eggs.
Excellent excellent excellent! :-) I have some of the commercially bought rollaway nesting boxes and after watching this video I kick myself for what I paid for them when I saw how easy it was to set up the one that you have. Brilliant design great video! Only wish I had seen it before I bought the other boxes. :-)
Thanks for the video. Very slick system. One of my hens just started laying now at 4 months old. Totally caught me off guard and didn't have the nesting boxes. Just noticed a dozen eggs sitting in the coop the other morning and one was broken and eaten. Someone layed one last night too and it was eaten. I am building nesting boxes today and will give this a try.
I’ve been looking for an easy inexpensive way to solve this problem as well! Your’s is by far the best I’ve seen on CZcams! Thank you so much for sharing!
Great, cheap solution! Thank you, I've been dealing with this for more than a whole season. I've tried every wives tale method. The only one that helped was ceramic eggs but a neighbor collected them all while we were on vacation and never brought them back. Must have been tasty; hard to crack though.
if they can roost/perch higher than the nesting box, they won't sleep in the nesting box. Excellent way to keep them safe and clean. We use a trap door so the eggs roll to the exterior of the coop in two that we made and in the one that existed prior to us living here, I simply moved the boxes down and the perch at a higher point on the other side of the coop and voila. Really like your design.
I never thought of that. That makes sense. We no longer raise laying hens, but maybe your advice will help out someone else watching. Great tip. Thanks for stopping by.
I watched a lot roll away nest box videos, this looks like the easiest to build & clean. Many of the others do not look like a nest chickens would want to lay in. These also look so easy to clean. I am going to reverse the roll direction so I can gather the eggs form outside the coop.
What I was referring to was that if you built or used the type where the eggs would come out the back so that one would not have to go into the house to collect eggs. Have since set up one and found that it works on the multi metal style, and that it is a lot less expensive than buying the inserts at $10 to $15 each. Which for a set of 12 gets to be quite expensive, and the existing elevation foot hooks over an existing bar and holds them in.
Fantastic idea.. I’ve been looking to a solution to my similar problem. I did not want to spend the high dollar for one of the roll away nesting boxes..Thank you for posting.
This is Genius! I can't wait to fix our poopy egg problem with these. Thankfully they don't eat the eggs, but this should keep them clean instead of covered in feces...
In 2017 I had to live without refrigeration. When I gathered eggs each day, I would pencil the date of the gathering on the eggs. No need to fret over which egg was oldest. (Room temperature eggs can be safely kept for a week) I fed my family on homegrown eggs that year.
love your use of the paint trays. very smart. I like that you son't have to worry about cutting wood at angles, and the trays keep you boxes pretty clean. Hope you don't mind if I use your idea!?!?!?
I only have three hens and one is eating 1 egg a day! A third of my product!! Thank you so much i need one of these! Id like to have a two lady box with a roll away egg box :-)
This video was not acceptable. You need a one minute or more into. You also need loud music when you are talking or you need music so loud that the viewer cannot hear you. You need multiple close up photos of your own face, along with video of children, dogs, cats, spouse ... You never need to verify that an idea actually works with updates. All in all, this was an excellent video. Clear, concise and to the point. Thumbs up.
As soon as Harvey rolls out and it dries off I am headed out back to do the same thing. I have an outside door to my nest boxes so I will slant mine the other direction but same principle. thanks so much for posting this video!
I’m in several chicken groups on Facebook. Any time someone posts about their chickens eating their eggs I put the link to this video on their posts. Many many have thanked me for it. Hate to see that Ta Fishman hasn’t put up any videos for years.
Thank you. I have a problem with a big black snake and hoping that by moving them down and out of sight it will keep them somewhat safe. I may need to make mine go through a longer chute but the joker is so smooth at avoiding me so I only see it on the camera.
Unfortunately we no longer raise chickens. Maybe someone else who has done it can answer your questions. I can tell you that we had no problems in the 1 1/2 years we used them. Thanks for stopping by.
Well thank you for that I have a chicken eating its egg. So far it seems to only eat its own egg so I am off to the paint shop to see it I can organise a roll away system like yours Thank you.
This video is short and simple and right to the point. I hate a video where the person likes to talk too much instead of getting to work. The inside idea is great! I had planned to put my egg collection door on the outside, but this idea is better. Plus I am enlarging my chicken coop so I can get inside from time to time with my small tiller and constantly disrupt the Rat tunnels that we have to deal with here in Utah. You see, we Never had Rat problems before, until a housing boom started several years ago. And in every direction of the compass they are taking up every open space with housing projects, and where do all the Rats run to? Inward to the center of the circle, and that's us! So we have been overrun with Huge Rats. Not the typical little field mice that the chickens would normally eat, But Huge! Huge!! Rats! The size of small dogs! I had built a nice PVC and clear Plastic Corrugated Sheeting green house and chicken coop, but then the Rat invasion came, and we had to abandon growing things like strawberries and beets in the green house because the Rats ate everything. Even the corn that we've tried to grow, they just climb up and eat it all! So I've turned the whole green house over to the chickens and tore out the plant shelving so I can get in there with my tiller and disrupt the Rat tunnels. But my original chicken coop was too short to get into with the tiller, so I am going to take it down and construct a new one that I can get into and also incorporate these roll away indoor boxes. Too bad my little 'Chicken Ranch' house has to go. Designed after the 'Best Little Whore House in Texas' house. I thought it kind of fitting. Thanks for this video friend! Steve Nelson Plus see my FREE eBooks at: Smashwords DOT com.
Thanks, I'd love to tell you the dimensions but that's a family secret. (LOL) I really can't remember the dimensions. all I did was go out and buy a few trays, measure them and go from there. I hope it all works out for ya.
Just so you know it's my understanding that if your chooks are eating there own eggs they are lacking in calcium the best thing to do it is to break the shells when you have finished with them and sprinkle the Brocken shells over the food make sure you break them up or they will automatically continue to break new ones this will replace the calcium they loose if they continue do this you might need a calcium supplement from a fodder store
They also eat their eggs for the taste and nutrition of the egg itself, not just the shells. And once they start they keep doing it until you employ a method such as the one shown in this video which separates the chickens from their eggs almost as soon as they lay them.
Are you giving chickens crushed oyster shells...it improves the strength of egg shells not so easy to break. I love that paint tray idea i will try it.
How did the carpet last from them scratching? Mine wore through the carpet in 2 days! I now have some really poultry mats on order off Amazon. Hopefully they last longer.
I used them for about a year and a half before ending my chicken raising experience. I never noticed any issues with them scratching them. Thanks for visiting.
@@cindywanvig5558 unfortunately we no longer raise chickens and that coop is no more. There really was no measurement on anything. If a board fit, it got attached. 😉
ta fishman thank you! I ended up buying gorilla glue spray adhesive but almost got liquid nail. I was afraid it would leave visible lines under the Astro turf.
Yes, the slope of the trays worked out great. Once in a while I'd find one that didn't roll down, but the egg eater never seemed to find it. Thanks for stopping by.
Unfortunately I have not raised chickens for the past 4 years, but the two years I used those pans was all good, no issues, I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
Love the paint pans. I would have never thought of that. You could keep a couple of extra pans hanging around. Incase you need to clean the pans out and don't have time. Quick and easy, just switch them out. Thanks, going to use this idea.
We're New York City chicken "farmers," who ran across this problem. Your solution worked perfectly! Thanks so much!
Is it still working perfectly?
Paint roller pans with astro turf - BRILLIANT! Thanks for sharing your improvements to making a good nesting box.
Thanks so much for this video! We have been having an egg eating problem for awhile now, and we slapped some paint trays in the nesting box this afternoon, modified the box like you show, and had an egg roll down behind the board in no time. What a great, easy fix.
What have you discovered since then?
I'm just finding this now as I am researching how to design and build my first coop and this is definitely the *easiest* idea I am stumbled upon so far for the roll-away system! I don't know anything about construction but I am planning a pallet coop build and I am absolutely going to try this! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the simple and cheap yet elegant and effective solution. Overnight I have gone from collecting broken and dirty eggs to perfect pristine eggs.
Yaakov, your very welcome. Thanks for stopping by.
That is THE coolest video I've seen yet for a great nesting box design.
Excellent excellent excellent! :-)
I have some of the commercially bought rollaway nesting boxes and after watching this video I kick myself for what I paid for them when I saw how easy it was to set up the one that you have. Brilliant design great video! Only wish I had seen it before I bought the other boxes. :-)
Removable pan, easy to clean; thought of everything! That's a great design!
Been watching quite a number of the egg rolling nest boxes. This is great. Simple and easy for most folks to make.
Thanks for the video. Very slick system. One of my hens just started laying now at 4 months old. Totally caught me off guard and didn't have the nesting boxes. Just noticed a dozen eggs sitting in the coop the other morning and one was broken and eaten. Someone layed one last night too and it was eaten. I am building nesting boxes today and will give this a try.
I’ve been looking for an easy inexpensive way to solve this problem as well! Your’s is by far the best I’ve seen on CZcams! Thank you so much for sharing!
This was an excellent idea. Thank you for the suggestion. The astroturf was a stroke of genius.
Great, cheap solution! Thank you, I've been dealing with this for more than a whole season. I've tried every wives tale method. The only one that helped was ceramic eggs but a neighbor collected them all while we were on vacation and never brought them back. Must have been tasty; hard to crack though.
That happened to me too, only mine were sold so I had to call everyone who bought eggs and explain my petsitter's goof
if they can roost/perch higher than the nesting box, they won't sleep in the nesting box. Excellent way to keep them safe and clean. We use a trap door so the eggs roll to the exterior of the coop in two that we made and in the one that existed prior to us living here, I simply moved the boxes down and the perch at a higher point on the other side of the coop and voila. Really like your design.
I never thought of that. That makes sense. We no longer raise laying hens, but maybe your advice will help out someone else watching. Great tip. Thanks for stopping by.
I've wondered for a while if this would work, I viewed thousands of video's and you're the first to do it. Thanks, I'll try it .
Eureka!
Thank you for this wonderfully easy and economical way of increasing our egg production.
Our egg peckers owe you their lives😂
😂😂
I watched a lot roll away nest box videos, this looks like the easiest to build & clean. Many of the others do not look like a nest chickens would want to lay in. These also look so easy to clean. I am going to reverse the roll direction so I can gather the eggs form outside the coop.
Thats exactly what i was thinking!!!
Did it work yo reverse the tray?
What I was referring to was that if you built or used the type where the eggs would come out the back so that one would not have to go into the house to collect eggs. Have since set up one and found that it works on the multi metal style, and that it is a lot less expensive than buying the inserts at $10 to $15 each. Which for a set of 12 gets to be quite expensive, and the existing elevation foot hooks over an existing bar and holds them in.
BRILLIANT! One of those things that I say; why didn't I think of this!?Thanks you for posting!!!
Damn, the paint trays and astro turf is absolutely genius idea
Fantastic idea.. I’ve been looking to a solution to my similar problem. I did not want to spend the high dollar for one of the roll away nesting boxes..Thank you for posting.
Dude you are genius...I'm thinking how to slat... & found you & paint pans...THANK YOU DUDE !!!
Love the paint trays! Awesome idea!
Paint pans and old carpet! Brilliant! Thank you!
This is Genius! I can't wait to fix our poopy egg problem with these. Thankfully they don't eat the eggs, but this should keep them clean instead of covered in feces...
The best ideas are so simple. Thanks for posting!
I bought my paint pans today after seeing your vid.
In 2017 I had to live without refrigeration. When I gathered eggs each day, I would pencil the date of the gathering on the eggs. No need to fret over which egg was oldest. (Room temperature eggs can be safely kept for a week) I fed my family on homegrown eggs that year.
Good advice, thanks for sharing and stopping by.
Simple and easy!! Just what I needed. Thank you ❤️
Great design! I think I’m going to try it.
love your use of the paint trays. very smart. I like that you son't have to worry about cutting wood at angles, and the trays keep you boxes pretty clean. Hope you don't mind if I use your idea!?!?!?
I only have three hens and one is eating 1 egg a day! A third of my product!! Thank you so much i need one of these! Id like to have a two lady box with a roll away egg box :-)
Great idea! Thank you. I wanted a roll away but didn’t want them in a metal box!!! That carpet should do the trick!!!
This is really clever. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Genius! I love the paint pan idea!
Great idea,I’ll be making this as a reverse roll out to gather the eggs from the outside of pen.great idea!
This video was not acceptable. You need a one minute or more into. You also need loud music when you are talking or you need music so loud that the viewer cannot hear you. You need multiple close up photos of your own face, along with video of children, dogs, cats, spouse ... You never need to verify that an idea actually works with updates.
All in all, this was an excellent video. Clear, concise and to the point. Thumbs up.
LOL. Love it
Clever idea with the paint tray. The video is nice, too...short and too the point. Thank you.
I'm so glad i came upon this video! it's just what I've
been looking for
AWESOME idea with the paint trays!
Best idea I've seen so far! Thanks for sharing!
holy shit this is the coolest most straightforward I have seen ~ I will be changing the whole coup over to this wow!
Glad you like it, hope it works out for you as well as it did for us.
You sir, are a genius!
As soon as Harvey rolls out and it dries off I am headed out back to do the same thing. I have an outside door to my nest boxes so I will slant mine the other direction but same principle. thanks so much for posting this video!
I’m in several chicken groups on Facebook. Any time someone posts about their chickens eating their eggs I put the link to this video on their posts. Many many have thanked me for it.
Hate to see that Ta Fishman hasn’t put up any videos for years.
Thanks for visiting and sharing.
You sir... are a genius!
Excellent job done to be honest I love coz I have a problem with hen laying on the eggs which result in having bad eggs with blood in
Thank you. I have a problem with a big black snake and hoping that by moving them down and out of sight it will keep them somewhat safe. I may need to make mine go through a longer chute but the joker is so smooth at avoiding me so I only see it on the camera.
He sounds just like Wilford Brimley
You showed a great idea how to make a nest! Thank you!
Great idea! Thanks, Cave Johnson.
Very good idea, greatings from Poland :)
That’s brilliant. Simple cheap solution.
Excellent idea I will definitely give it a try
How about an update, turf still attached (from cleaning)? Chickens still using it? Chickens eating the adhesive or turf? Chickens sleeping in nests?
Unfortunately we no longer raise chickens. Maybe someone else who has done it can answer your questions. I can tell you that we had no problems in the 1 1/2 years we used them. Thanks for stopping by.
Great idea! I just wondered do you make the bottom shelf stick out more than the top so they can use the bottom to jump up to the top?
Love the paint pans! Thx
Great idea. This is a honey do for my wife so I'm sure the expenditure will be fine with her.
Great idea....paint pans. Thank you for sharing
Simple but ingenious!
What a great idea!
I will give it a try.😊
Great! I’ll try this as everything else failed and I’m fed up of cleaning the mess. I was close to getting rid of my 4 hens…
Easy squeezy, love it!
too darn clever.. going out to get some paint trays as I have the same issue you had. Thanks for your video
Nice work! Thanks for sharing!
Nice idea i will for sure make something like this keep it up
Well thank you for that I have a chicken eating its egg. So far it seems to only eat its own egg so I am off to the paint shop to see it I can organise a roll away system like yours Thank you.
Glad to help out. But don't use the spay adhesive it lets go after a couple weeks. I ended up using liquid nails "problem solved" good luck.
Thank You Great Idea withthe paint pan , realy helps with keep things clean
That is a great adaptation.
Nice nice nice I am going to do this at my sons new place
Such a great idea! Thanks for sharing!
I liked his Rabbit video with Midnight
Best i have seen yet...tkx for sharing !!!!!!!
Awesome idea! I will be doing this immediately!!
This video is short and simple and right to the point. I hate a video where the person likes to talk too much instead of getting to work. The inside idea is great! I had planned to put my egg collection door on the outside, but this idea is better. Plus I am enlarging my chicken coop so I can get inside from time to time with my small tiller and constantly disrupt the Rat tunnels that we have to deal with here in Utah. You see, we Never had Rat problems before, until a housing boom started several years ago. And in every direction of the compass they are taking up every open space with housing projects, and where do all the Rats run to? Inward to the center of the circle, and that's us! So we have been overrun with Huge Rats. Not the typical little field mice that the chickens would normally eat, But Huge! Huge!! Rats! The size of small dogs! I had built a nice PVC and clear Plastic Corrugated Sheeting green house and chicken coop, but then the Rat invasion came, and we had to abandon growing things like strawberries and beets in the green house because the Rats ate everything. Even the corn that we've tried to grow, they just climb up and eat it all! So I've turned the whole green house over to the chickens and tore out the plant shelving so I can get in there with my tiller and disrupt the Rat tunnels. But my original chicken coop was too short to get into with the tiller, so I am going to take it down and construct a new one that I can get into and also incorporate these roll away indoor boxes. Too bad my little 'Chicken Ranch' house has to go. Designed after the 'Best Little Whore House in Texas' house. I thought it kind of fitting. Thanks for this video friend! Steve Nelson Plus see my FREE eBooks at: Smashwords DOT com.
should have kept your comment short and simple and right to the point
this is genius!
Very nice. thanks for sharing.
this is an awesome idea! The paint tray is genious! I will hopefully be converting my boxes to this. Can you tell me the dimensions of your boxes?
Thanks, I'd love to tell you the dimensions but that's a family secret. (LOL) I really can't remember the dimensions. all I did was go out and buy a few trays, measure them and go from there. I hope it all works out for ya.
Little bigger than the size of the tray :)
Great idea, well done sir.
great idea, thanks for sharing
This is brilliant idea
my hens eat their eggs
Shaban Saddique getting same problem
Just so you know it's my understanding that if your chooks are eating there own eggs they are lacking in calcium the best thing to do it is to break the shells when you have finished with them and sprinkle the Brocken shells over the food make sure you break them up or they will automatically continue to break new ones this will replace the calcium they loose if they continue do this you might need a calcium supplement from a fodder store
They also eat their eggs for the taste and nutrition of the egg itself, not just the shells. And once they start they keep doing it until you employ a method such as the one shown in this video which separates the chickens from their eggs almost as soon as they lay them.
Wow it worked. Great! Thank you for sharing that. It's a good idea.
No problem, glad to help. Thanks for stopping by
Are you giving chickens crushed oyster shells...it improves the strength of egg shells not so easy to break. I love that paint tray idea i will try it.
What keeps the chickens from reaching in and eating the eggs anyways
Couldn’t tell ya. All I know is that it worked.
great idea, going to give this a try
Great idea!
that's a really great idea. thanks for sharing!
No problem, glad to help. Thanks for stopping by
Very nice very nice
That’s so clever!!!
7 years later do you like your design? We're building a coop now.
For the 3 yrs after that video, I did.
I did however change out the that carpet once a year.
Bella y sencilla idea. Creo que la idea es una consecuencia de alimentarse con huevos sanos.
How did the carpet last from them scratching? Mine wore through the carpet in 2 days! I now have some really poultry mats on order off Amazon. Hopefully they last longer.
I used them for about a year and a half before ending my chicken raising experience. I never noticed any issues with them scratching them. Thanks for visiting.
Would it also work if the eggs were rolling to the back instead?
I realize the s is an old video, but hopefully it's still being monitored. How big is the lid that goes over the rolled eggs?
@@cindywanvig5558 unfortunately we no longer raise chickens and that coop is no more. There really was no measurement on anything. If a board fit, it got attached. 😉
cool, great idea 👍
Really neat!
How did you adhere the Astro turf to the paint tray? I was thinking spray adhesive or liquid nail? E6000 glue?
Missy Taylor I tried spray adhesive but it didn’t hold for very long. I ended up using liquid nails. Good luck.
ta fishman thank you! I ended up buying gorilla glue spray adhesive but almost got liquid nail. I was afraid it would leave visible lines under the Astro turf.
Genius to use paint trays! Was the slope enough on them to get the eggs to roll down? Thanks for posting this
Yes, the slope of the trays worked out great. Once in a while I'd find one that didn't roll down, but the egg eater never seemed to find it. Thanks for stopping by.
Do you put any bedding in them?
So it’s been 6 years how are you liking it and how does the indoor outdoor carpet working out is it easy to clean and does it hold up well
Unfortunately I have not raised chickens for the past 4 years, but the two years I used those pans was all good, no issues, I’d do it again in a heartbeat.