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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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'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.
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 TH-cam! Thank you so much for sharing!
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.
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 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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
thanks man. I think I'm going to simply use plywood with that grass, and set it at an angle, since my boxes are too small for a paint pan. But thanks for the inspiration!
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.
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.
Thanks for stopping by, unfortunately I no longer raise laying hens and the coop has been turned into a rabbit barn. I have no list or drawings of what I did, I just made the boxes to fit the pans. No Plans, Just built them out of my head.
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.
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.
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We're New York City chicken "farmers," who ran across this problem. Your solution worked perfectly! Thanks so much!
Is it still working perfectly?
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.
Paint roller pans with astro turf - BRILLIANT! Thanks for sharing your improvements to making a good nesting box.
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.
Removable pan, easy to clean; thought of everything! That's a great design!
That is THE coolest video I've seen yet for a great nesting box design.
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?
Eureka!
Thank you for this wonderfully easy and economical way of increasing our egg production.
Our egg peckers owe you their lives😂
😂😂
This was an excellent idea. Thank you for the suggestion. The astroturf was a stroke of genius.
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. :-)
This is really clever. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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.
BRILLIANT! One of those things that I say; why didn't I think of this!?Thanks you for posting!!!
You showed a great idea how to make a nest! Thank you!
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
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!
Such a great idea! Thanks for sharing!
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'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.
Simple and easy!! Just what I needed. Thank you ❤️
Damn, the paint trays and astro turf is absolutely genius idea
Been watching quite a number of the egg rolling nest boxes. This is great. Simple and easy for most folks to make.
Love the paint trays! Awesome idea!
Genius! I love the paint pan idea!
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 TH-cam! Thank you so much for sharing!
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.
Paint pans and old carpet! Brilliant! Thank you!
great idea, going to give this a try
The best ideas are so simple. Thanks for posting!
You sir... are a genius!
Very good idea, greatings from Poland :)
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.
Dude you are genius...I'm thinking how to slat... & found you & paint pans...THANK YOU DUDE !!!
Great idea, well done sir.
Great design! I think I’m going to try it.
too darn clever.. going out to get some paint trays as I have the same issue you had. Thanks for your video
Really neat!
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 bought my paint pans today after seeing your vid.
Great idea! Thanks, Cave Johnson.
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 :-)
Wow it worked. Great! Thank you for sharing that. It's a good idea.
No problem, glad to help. Thanks for stopping by
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...
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?
that's a really great idea. thanks for sharing!
No problem, glad to help. 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 .
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.
Great idea....paint pans. Thank you for sharing
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.
That is a great adaptation.
AWESOME idea with the paint trays!
cool, great idea 👍
Thank You Great Idea withthe paint pan , realy helps with keep things clean
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.
Nice work! Thanks for sharing!
Love the paint pans! Thx
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.
I'm so glad i came upon this video! it's just what I've
been looking for
this is genius!
Best i have seen yet...tkx for sharing !!!!!!!
What a great idea!
I will give it a try.😊
Simple but ingenious!
Great idea,I’ll be making this as a reverse roll out to gather the eggs from the outside of pen.great idea!
Awesome idea! I will be doing this immediately!!
Excellent idea I will definitely give it a try
Best idea I've seen so far! Thanks for sharing!
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.
Great idea! Thank you. I wanted a roll away but didn’t want them in a metal box!!! That carpet should do the trick!!!
Great idea!
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 :)
Easy squeezy, love it!
He sounds just like Wilford Brimley
Great idea. This is a honey do for my wife so I'm sure the expenditure will be fine with her.
Do you put any bedding in them?
I liked his Rabbit video with Midnight
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.
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.
That’s brilliant. Simple cheap solution.
Very nice. thanks for sharing.
Where did you get that astroturf carpet? Any specific type?
Farnsworth, I had that on hand, but you can get it from any hardware store.
thanks man. I think I'm going to simply use plywood with that grass, and set it at an angle, since my boxes are too small for a paint pan. But thanks for the inspiration!
Nice idea i will for sure make something like this keep it up
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.
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.
Can you give me the list of this since I have to built a new nest boxes?
Thanks for stopping by, unfortunately I no longer raise laying hens and the coop has been turned into a rabbit barn. I have no list or drawings of what I did, I just made the boxes to fit the pans. No Plans, Just built them out of my head.
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
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.
Clever idea with the paint tray. The video is nice, too...short and too the point. Thank you.
Nice nice nice I am going to do this at my sons new place
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.
great idea, thanks for sharing
This is brilliant idea
my hens eat their eggs
Shaban Saddique getting same problem
Genius!
What keeps the chickens from reaching in and eating the eggs anyways
Couldn’t tell ya. All I know is that it worked.
Awesome 👏 thank you
Nice.
Is the shelf the pans are sitting on flat?
Yes
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
Do hens still go broody?
With the eggs rolling away, there’s nothing for them to sit on, so no, mine never did.
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.