Nests Iteration 4 to Front Roll Away style

[aart]

I still get several eggs eaten each week.

Is the 'waste' build up coinciding with the egg eating?

 

[Ted Brown]

Is the 'waste' build up coinciding with the egg eating?

Not always. I thought it was related but I have moved the offending hen each night for the past five and got an egg eaten. This evening she was on the roosts.

 

[Ted Brown]

I thought an update was in order.

I have successfully broken the nest sleeper habit by moving the hen to the roosts just after dusk, took 7 evenings. All eggs now roll into the box without getting hung up on waste.

However, I am still getting a few eggs broken. I was gathering eggs and saw one of the hens put her head through the nest side opening and almost reach the end of the egg box. The eggs that get broken are not eaten just the shell broken.

I measured the depth of the box at just over 8" with the opening at 2.5". Seems just short enough for a hen to reach through and break the egg but not allow the contents to be eaten.

I will redo the floor to add another inch of box depth and see if that solves the problem.