Diy Roll Out Nest Box

Keep your shoes clean by staying out of the hen house while gathering eggs with this easy to build design.

Diy roll out nest box.

Chickens need these nest boxes to lay their eggs but most of the time. Rather than doing all that work and have our hens ignore it we wanted to make a quick and easy experimental nesting box based loosely on the video s design. Get the advantages of a roll out but at a fraction of the cost. No it is not what you are thinking they do not roll away with your chickens in them.

The diy nesting box is built on the outside of the hen house with access for the hens from the inside and access for egg gathering on the outside. So if you are a diy sort of person design and build your own roll away nest box using our insert. We needed roll away nest boxes. Remember the diy easy clean chicken nesting boxes we made a little while back.

The hens lay their eggs on a slanted surface and gravity takes them away so they can t get to it. I looked at several different ones before deciding that plastic storage boxes would make an ideal material to start with. Eye rings are attached to the two top corners of the box and can be used to mount the box onto a wall. There are a number of different designs that can be bought or built.

These nest boxes are made from 18 gallon storage boxes that i bought in a 3 pack from lowes. There is also the rollaway nest box. Plus are easy to roll out of the way as needed. We watched a video that shows how to make a diy roll away nesting box out of wood.

The nest insert has a gradual declining angle that will gently roll the eggs to and into the collection that you have designed or provided. They can be made out of either plastic of metal. Conventional nest boxes are sold singly but most metal come in multiples of 2 10 boxes. Well these diy roll away nest boxes would probably be considered an upgrade to those.

A rollaway box has a slightly slanted floor which encourages the egg to rollaway from under the hen. This simply means that you will have the ability to switch the covered egg tray to the front or the back at any time. However the metal ones are generally much better quality. Here s what we did.

The next possible solution to try was a roll out nesting box which is exactly what it sounds like. But the fellow mentioned a concern that his hens may be reluctant to use this system.