Rural Gardening: Laying eggs on the coop floor, 0 by mevnmart

mevnmart wrote:
I'm trying hard to visualize what you've go there, Bernie! I think I've got it - so they won't stay in the dark all day, so they come out and you just lift the lid to get the eggs. That's pretty cool. We have four that are simply open square boxes about 6 inches high, no top. Those are their favorite, and they do exactly what you said - kick the straw out and poop all over.

The other 8 have the slanted top, and a lip in the front, so the hay doesn't get kicked out so much, but they don't really lay in those too much, so that may be why. We probably get 75% of our eggs in those open topped boxes. I've attached a pic of a Buff Orpington in the open box (clearly NOT her egg!).

If we move, I'll definitely look into constructing what you've described. It seems super clever.