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With the 12" collection area they haven't been able to reach anything (although I don't know how hard they've tried if at all). But Opa's original design was a 6" collection area, he increased to 12" for that exact reason.

Biy Boy, I reread my narrative and was temporarily confused, and I built the thing! You have it right, except they are 9" tall at the high point of the ramp vs 10" - I had that wrong in my 1st narrative but cannot correct but the front ramp support strip is set at 2 5/8", the ramp is 3/8"...

It's worked great for me, we are often below freezing here, though rarely in single digits, and having it inside the coop I've never had an issue with frozen eggs. And everything has worked as planned, the eggs roll to the back of the rollout area, stay nice and clean, and no issues with...

I wanted the girls to be able to use that floor space and also didn't want to have to collect eggs at floor level. Not a big deal for me but I have an 80 year old neighbor who collects if I'm out of town. She's also the reason for the rear rollout with access doors in the wall, so she doesn't...

Nest boxes painted and installed. Moved the hens into their new coop last night, got my first two eggs this morning so they seem to have passed muster! Of course, I found three hens crammed into one box when I went out this morning, crazy chickens. Lower right corner is my Am hen BeeBee...

After doing a bunch of reading and looking at all the pics in Opa's thread about his new design, I decided to take a crack at building my own set of roll out nest boxes. I have a sweet little EE who lays 5 large/jumbo green eggs each week but has become an egg eater, if this means I don't have...