Diy Roll Out Nest Box

Get the advantages of a roll out but at a fraction of the cost.

Diy roll out nest box.

I looked at a couple of homemade roll out nest box plans online that used plastic storage boxes but decided to use materials i already had. Keep your shoes clean by staying out of the hen house while gathering eggs with this easy to build design. These nest boxes are made from 18 gallon storage boxes that i bought in a 3 pack from lowes. 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.

Remember the diy easy clean chicken nesting boxes we made a little while back. There are a number of different designs that can be bought or built. We watched a video that shows how to make a diy roll away nesting box out of wood. They can be made out of either plastic of metal.

No it is not what you are thinking they do not roll away with your chickens in them. The next possible solution to try was a roll out nesting box which is exactly what it sounds like. Our roll out nest boxes can be converted between rear roll out and front roll out. The hens lay their eggs on a slanted surface and gravity takes them away so they can t get to it.

But the fellow mentioned a concern that his hens may be reluctant to use this system. A rollaway box has a slightly slanted floor which encourages the egg to rollaway from under the hen. So if you are a diy sort of person design and build your own roll away nest box using our insert. This simply means that you will have the ability to switch the covered egg tray to the front or the back at any time.

Chickens need these nest boxes to lay their eggs but most of the time. Can you imagine having to run after your eggs that would be funny. Well these diy roll away nest boxes would probably be considered an upgrade to those. 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.

Here s what we did. 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. Eye rings are attached to the two top corners of the box and can be used to mount the box onto a wall. I looked at several different ones before deciding that plastic storage boxes would make an ideal material to start with.

There is also the rollaway nest box. Conventional nest boxes are sold singly but most metal come in multiples of 2 10 boxes.