It sounds to me like you have hens not tripping it and other hens go in after to lay their egg you find them before they have done it and take them out and then they go in again to lay their first egg for the day.
I have tried a variation of @Rhinoman method and it works quite well
Yeah I understand here you're coming from.
It seems that your solution is for people how have lots of money and very little time, while the other is for people of have lots of time but very little money.
But that is my interpretation of it.