It's the outside of the coop, egg collection door is completely open, the birds enter from the other side. The egg collection opening is about 4" high.
I thought pictures might help.
New nesting bins.
Old set up with 5 gal. buckets.
Still looks the same from the coop side.
So, with larger chickens, as aart advised, they had some issues standing up when laying...so we had a bunch of random placements. Also, after watching several hens, I...
I looked at those but had limited space from my original bucket design, aart told me might be too small...buckets worked up until we got Welsummers and Black Copper Marans that are huge compared to our other girls. Was able to replace buckets with uline bins...
I've been keeping an eye on whether they have had any issue with getting in and out of them and all has seemed fine to date. I was surprised yesterday to open the egg door and find an Ameraucana and a Buff Orpington crammed into one bucket together.
I modified the 5 gallon bucket concept.
Prized roosting location in upper right.
Suspended off floor to open both doors for clean out. Storage area above nesting boxes, contains automatic waterer reservoir and light controller.