No More Dirty Eggs- DIY Roll Away Nesting Boxes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2023
- We have quickly grown tired of dealing with messy eggs, chickens randomly cracking into them, restocking straw, and having to do such heavy washing in order to sale. So we've decided to build our own adjustable rollaway nesting boxes to solve those issues!
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Best build ive found on roll aways! I like that you build like i do with what you got and repurpose whenever possible. Gotta love it when a projects only cost is a little sweat n elbow grease!
Appreciate that, they are still working great today. Thanks for watching!
super cool. I'll have to use that concept for my next one! My favorite nesting box idea!
It’s still worked great for us so far! Thanks for watching!
Nice job. Nice to see you use leftover material. Not everyone can swing all new material, plus it's great to repurpose materials just to save in waste.
Thanks! Definitely try to use any scrap we have laying around. Starting a farm or homestead from scratch is expensive.😅
Thanks for watching!
I love my battery powered baby compressor. No need for all that guesswork.
Easy diy, functional and very practical. Thank you for another great video share.
Im going to use this in the nesting boxes I'll be building tomorrow.
I just built a 5' Dx10'Wx7'H chicken coop. Im putting the nesting boxes on the outside like your mobile coop.
I really like how simple you made this ❤
Keep up the great videos kids❤❤❤
Hope it works out good for you Denise. It’s been a game changer for use having roll away boxes. Thanks for watching!
Good job and works the same as the expensive ones you buy.
Yeah I looked into buying something and quickly went the route of building my own. The store bought are nice but way to expensive for us! Thanks for watching Paula!
This was a really great and inspirational video. Now off to make myself a Roll-Away Nesting Box
You got this! We’ve had this set up for a few months. It has been a game changer for clean eggs with large numbers of hens. Thanks for watching!
very good very easy diy project, good work boy 👍
Thank you! Appreciate you watching.
That's fantastic 😻
Thank you! It’s been such a great addition to the coop. Eggs are clean which has saved us a tremendous amount of time.
Cool video, and I love the rolling egg catchers! That is always how it seems to go because I always start something, and life pulls me in several different ways, LOL. By the way, I have subscribed to your channel, and Lisa and I are looking forward to watching more of your videos! Until next time, may God bless your days the way He always blesses ours! Donald
Thanks Donald and Lisa! And yes, there is always something pulling us in a million different directions. A 4 hour project turns into a 2 week project.😅
We appreciate you all, god bless!
Great video. Take some of that vinyl and attach a flap over the hinge side; it probably leaks. I came to your channel because the link didn't work. Enjoy your adventures
We haven’t had any issue with leaking because the roof overhangs with a gutter above. But since the I was trying to save on material and put the metal on horizontal, instead of the correct direction for run off, there is an occasional puddling that will pour in when you open the lid. It’s not too much though just a few drips.
@@easyworkacres it's a nifty little chicken tractor you have. Glad it doesn't leak. Conservation of materials is a beautiful thing. Have a great day and enjoy your adventures
Thanks for this video.
Do you use hay in the nesting boxes or do your hens lay directly on the hardware cloth ??
They lay directly on the hardware cloth.
You look handsome
Thanks.😅
Just subscribed, So the chickens don't have a problem with no Nesting material ?
No problem at all! Our entire tray is full of eggs everyday.
Thank you for watching and subscribing!
How would this work for the winter? Seems the eggs would freeze?
My plan is to put haybales around the base of coop to block wind drafts through the main floor since the coop floor is 1x2 wire mesh. And I will cap the back end mesh on the nesting boxes off with a sheet plywood from the bottom so the eggs are still rolling on the metal but blocked from the cold. But either way it’s mainly just important to stay on top of collecting eggs when it’s really hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
Came back and studied this again. Am wondering what state you’re in and since the hardware cloth leaves the hens exposed to the weather, do you use this coop in winter? Hope that made sense.
We housed them in a greenhouse before during the winter. But this winter we plan to stack hay bales around the base of the tractor to hold in heat and block out wind while still allowing droppings to fall through. We will just plan to move the coop less frequent during the winter months.
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Alrighty. Thank you. Was wondering how much snow/freezing temps you get there. I’m in the final stages of completing my coop, the nesting boxes being last, and I have been sitting in there for hours, staring at that wall lol, trying to figure out just how to build them.
Appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us.