Ended Do You Need A Rollaway Nest Box? - Win A Free Nest Box From Urban-Egg.com

[Sassychicken32]

The Next Box would be perfect for my small flock of Silkies. My Silkie hens would love this and it would be so much easier for me to clean their coop with this. Even if I don't win this awesome giveaway, good luck to all!!

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Cant wait to see who wins!!!

 

[Pennys Mama]

I'd love a new nesting box for all my girls. I've got 2 nesting boxes & 2 five-gallon buckets right now. I've a broody hen in one of the boxes setting on eggs & a mama with her babies that sleep in one or both of the 5-gallon buckets at night. You know they all want to lay where the broody hen is, since it's nice and comfy with little warm eggs in it! I made the mistake of putting the boxes by their roosts, they get pooped on and in all the time. I've been contemplating building new boxes and putting them in a more private location for the ladies, but a new FREE roll out nest would be awesome. I have around 70 chickens, so they can get creative on where they lay, it'd be so much easier if I didn't have to hunt for their eggs anymore. Thanks for the opportunity to enter.

 

[Brady bunch]

I would love a new nest box in general. When I wanted to start raising chickens we made their coop completely from scratch, now it is almost winter here and raccoons and prowling around and I am very nervous that they will get into the nest box because the walls in it are very thin and breakable. I love making homemade stuff for my hens but a more stable piece of equipment may be more safe at this time.

 

[Neggative]

I could really use these egg boxes... right now i'me building a new coop and this would perfect as i have a hen or 2 that loves to eat all the eggs.

 

[wleigh1021]

I am looking for a nesting box for my ladies. I had roll away nesting box inserts screwed onto a frame about 2' off the floor but my ladies didn't like the open "boxes" and instead my young teenagers would roost and poop all over them. My ladies have been using great places such as right next to the coop door where they get stepped on or on the poop board. I took out the nest box inserts and I am in search of one that is covered and won't get pooped all over!

 

[Villainess]

We don’t NEED a rollaway nesting box, but it would be greatly appreciated

When we got chickens for the first time this year, my husband got a little overzealous in his buying—we ended up with 50 chickens and 2 ducks (a month later, he added another 3 ducks, 2 guineas....*singsong voice* and a partridge in a pear tree!?) I accuse him of Chicken Math, but in reality some of it was just being first-time chicken owners, and the Rural King employee telling my husband he might want to buy extra because some people may lose up to half of their birds due to illness, predators, random causes, etc,.

We managed to only lose 5 hens (3 of which died the very night we brought them home) 1 duck, and 1 guinea, and this has been since April. So here we are, first-time chicken owners with all these birds to care for and....literally a bag of chick starter and a heat lamp the only supplies to work with. We worked like crazy, usually until the moment the sun set and it was too dark, constructing them a coop and making them a run, me often already exhausted beyond words from working long hours 7 days a week. The nesting boxes were the last things we built; we wanted our babies protected before we focused on anything else.

We only made a few nesting boxes—enough for no more than 20 hens. In the beginning we thought we’d lose more birds than we had, and then when we didn’t (thankfully), we had discussed selling some to thin our flock, or at the very least selling enough eggs to buy their feed and break even. I don’t think I can part with my girls. Some of them are like children to me. Against my husbands warnings of not getting attached, that they’re “just chickens/ducks,” I am attached and many are just as attached to me.

I don’t think my husband ever stopped to consider just HOW MANY EGGS almost 50 chickens can lay! Even when they’re not each laying every day, I was collecting more eggs than I knew what to do with. Our family of four loves eggs, but there were far too many for us to use without some going to waste—and I hate being wasteful with food when so many go without. So I started sending my mother-in-law home with eggs. She’s 77 years old and physically disabled, caring for her mentally disabled brother, and sometimes cooking up some eggs are the quickest, easiest meals for her to make. When she discussed a church cookout, I donated 6 dozen eggs for their luncheon so someone could make deviled eggs. When I found out that our local food pantry was having food shortages, I begin donating eggs on a regular basis, asking that I remain anonymous, and that if people were to please bring back their empty egg cartons I would gladly refill them. I give my neighbors eggs. I give food pantries in two counties eggs anonymously. I take eggs to work (we have around 1000 employees) leaving them in the refrigerator with a note on them saying “FREE TO A GOOD HOME ” and the date they were laid. By the time I bring in the next batch of eggs, those previously dropped off are all gone.

My duck hen has started laying within the last 2-3 months. I never knew that people allergic to chicken eggs can often eat duck eggs without problems, until I was talking about my ducks one day with a friend. Her son has so many different allergies that trying to buy the right foods for him to eat is pretty costly, and she can’t always afford to pay $4 (or more) for a dozen duck eggs just for him after buying soy milk and gluten-free foods. Wanna guess where my duck eggs go?

I think I’ve sold MAYBE a total of 10 dozen eggs, just enough to buy a bag of feed. I’ve never kept count on the number of eggs that I’ve donated or handed out, but I’m certain it has been enough to buy LOTS of feed if I had sold those eggs. But I’m okay with that.

My problem is that I don’t have enough nesting boxes for all of my girls since I wasn’t planning on having/keeping this many. Some of my girls are very particular about which box they will use. Of course, that same box is the one preferred by nearly half of the flock. So fights break out sometimes. Eggs get trampled or pecked. Sometimes if a favored box is full, that hen may lay outside of the nesting box and coop altogether, out in the run in some obscure place. And I don’t always know about those random eggs until it’s too late. My chickens aren’t too keen on the idea that one of our duck likes to lay her eggs in the nesting boxes, too. Certain chickens will go out of their way to kick the duck egg out of the nesting box, a few times managing to damage the eggs.

I’d like to think more nesting boxes would make my girls happier, which would in turn reduce damaged eggs from fighting AND help them lay more eggs. And until I can decide to thin my flock down (shhh....don’t tell my husband, but I’m not planning on it anytime soon. LOL), I’d like to continue to Pay It Forward in this small way with our eggs. Eventually, when I can afford to, I will have to build more nesting boxes, but I just can’t do it right now. So while I don’t necessarily NEED these nesting boxes, I would certainly put these to good use, hopefully so I can continue helping others.

Best of luck to everyone!

 

[The Moonshiner]

As a long time poultry owner I've used almost everything imaginable for nest boxes at one time or another.
Preowned wooden, homemade wooden, milk crates, 5 gal buckets, dish pans, cat litter pans and boxes, cat litter containers, small dog carriers, XL flower pots, plastic bins, plastic storage containers, small totes, old dresser drawers, etc etc etc. If it'll hold straw or chips and a chicken can fit in it then I've used it.
Of course there's always something that could be improved with most. I've went through all the common issues as it seems other's here have also.
Everyone wanting in the same box, wanting the box to double as their outhouse, unstable mounting, just plain not liking where the box is located, thinking it's a hassle so I'll just lay here on the ground instead.
It's always one thing or a dozen. Anyways being I'm a hillbilly with redneck engineering skills and a genius of the Wile E Coyote caliber I can usually come up with a solution. But now I've been stumped with a new issue and came to the conclusion a roll away is probably my only reliable solution.
It is so nice that this contest came up.
I have a couple egg eaters. Now if I was just eating or selling eggs it wouldn't be that big of a deal.
Now I'm sure most are unaware of me but I'm raising and breeding leghorns. And not just any leghorns like the white or browns and not even just those "I didn't know leghorns came in that color" buffs, silvers, black tailed red etc. But I've been collecting different pattern/colors and then crossing them to create new patterns/colors.
Here's a couple pics of some of the varieties I've had hatch....

Yes those are all leghorn chicks.
Now back to my egg eaters. They're 55 flowery leghorns. They're gold duckwing pattern with mottling and barring. Pic...

They'd be very useful to my efforts since they carry barring and mottling. I started earlier this year with crossing them with a silver duckwing male.
I'll fast forward since most won't care about genetics but with taking these two different varieties of leghorns I can in a few generations produce not only these two varieties but an additional six more varieties.
Fun stuff but I need to get eggs in the incubator to even get started. I've tried to check their box's often to get them before they're destroyed but with kids to get back and forth to school, a job, a wife, a life and a ton of chores it isn't always easy.
So I need this roll away nest box. Not just for my current situation but for future situations that may come up. Not just for cleaner eggs, not just for less broken eggs and not just for keeping eggs from being eaten. I need it for all the above and the chance to get more eggs in the incubator. It would help me with my dream of creating new varieties. Creating leghorns in patterns that they haven't been seen in.
Now who wouldn't want to help and be a part of that?
Come on Urban-Egg.com send me a nest box and not only save some eggs but be a part of something larger.
Helping put more eggs in the egg basket is great but helping put more eggs in the incubator and helping create new varieties of birds is priceless.

 

[theoldchick]

I asked my girls and they said they would love the Next Box Roll Away Nest Box because someone is always waiting to be next in the nest box.

 

[Duck-Whisperer]

We don’t NEED a rollaway nesting box, but it would be greatly appreciated

When we got chickens for the first time this year, my husband got a little overzealous in his buying—we ended up with 50 chickens and 2 ducks (a month later, he added another 3 ducks, 2 guineas....*singsong voice* and a partridge in a pear tree!?) I accuse him of Chicken Math, but in reality some of it was just being first-time chicken owners, and the Rural King employee telling my husband he might want to buy extra because some people may lose up to half of their birds due to illness, predators, random causes, etc,.

We managed to only lose 5 hens (3 of which died the very night we brought them home) 1 duck, and 1 guinea, and this has been since April. So here we are, first-time chicken owners with all these birds to care for and....literally a bag of chick starter and a heat lamp the only supplies to work with. We worked like crazy, usually until the moment the sun set and it was too dark, constructing them a coop and making them a run, me often already exhausted beyond words from working long hours 7 days a week. The nesting boxes were the last things we built; we wanted our babies protected before we focused on anything else.

We only made a few nesting boxes—enough for no more than 20 hens. In the beginning we thought we’d lose more birds than we had, and then when we didn’t (thankfully), we had discussed selling some to thin our flock, or at the very least selling enough eggs to buy their feed and break even. I don’t think I can part with my girls. Some of them are like children to me. Against my husbands warnings of not getting attached, that they’re “just chickens/ducks,” I am attached and many are just as attached to me.

I don’t think my husband ever stopped to consider just HOW MANY EGGS almost 50 chickens can lay! Even when they’re not each laying every day, I was collecting more eggs than I knew what to do with. Our family of four loves eggs, but there were far too many for us to use without some going to waste—and I hate being wasteful with food when so many go without. So I started sending my mother-in-law home with eggs. She’s 77 years old and physically disabled, caring for her mentally disabled brother, and sometimes cooking up some eggs are the quickest, easiest meals for her to make. When she discussed a church cookout, I donated 6 dozen eggs for their luncheon so someone could make deviled eggs. When I found out that our local food pantry was having food shortages, I begin donating eggs on a regular basis, asking that I remain anonymous, and that if people were to please bring back their empty egg cartons I would gladly refill them. I give my neighbors eggs. I give food pantries in two counties eggs anonymously. I take eggs to work (we have around 1000 employees) leaving them in the refrigerator with a note on them saying “FREE TO A GOOD HOME ” and the date they were laid. By the time I bring in the next batch of eggs, those previously dropped off are all gone.

My duck hen has started laying within the last 2-3 months. I never knew that people allergic to chicken eggs can often eat duck eggs without problems, until I was talking about my ducks one day with a friend. Her son has so many different allergies that trying to buy the right foods for him to eat is pretty costly, and she can’t always afford to pay $4 (or more) for a dozen duck eggs just for him after buying soy milk and gluten-free foods. Wanna guess where my duck eggs go?

I think I’ve sold MAYBE a total of 10 dozen eggs, just enough to buy a bag of feed. I’ve never kept count on the number of eggs that I’ve donated or handed out, but I’m certain it has been enough to buy LOTS of feed if I had sold those eggs. But I’m okay with that.

My problem is that I don’t have enough nesting boxes for all of my girls since I wasn’t planning on having/keeping this many. Some of my girls are very particular about which box they will use. Of course, that same box is the one preferred by nearly half of the flock. So fights break out sometimes. Eggs get trampled or pecked. Sometimes if a favored box is full, that hen may lay outside of the nesting box and coop altogether, out in the run in some obscure place. And I don’t always know about those random eggs until it’s too late. My chickens aren’t too keen on the idea that one of our duck likes to lay her eggs in the nesting boxes, too. Certain chickens will go out of their way to kick the duck egg out of the nesting box, a few times managing to damage the eggs.

I’d like to think more nesting boxes would make my girls happier, which would in turn reduce damaged eggs from fighting AND help them lay more eggs. And until I can decide to thin my flock down (shhh....don’t tell my husband, but I’m not planning on it anytime soon. LOL), I’d like to continue to Pay It Forward in this small way with our eggs. Eventually, when I can afford to, I will have to build more nesting boxes, but I just can’t do it right now. So while I don’t necessarily NEED these nesting boxes, I would certainly put these to good use, hopefully so I can continue helping others.

Best of luck to everyone!

No. You NEED this nesting box. I was surprised how quickly I became attached to my first flock of ducks and chickens. 14 years later, I just added 10 more full grown young laying hens to my current flock of 10 free range ducks and chickens and am converting a shed we had been using as a furnished "bunk house" (It's NOT a "She Shed". It just looks like one.) into a huge hen house. It's perfect. I wish we had done it a decade ago. I am so excited because there is plenty of room for even MORE birds. When I say that, my husband just looks at me. I am a baker, with a state certified home bakery, so I can't see how we could ever have too many eggs. But he just walked in, put on his jacket, sighed and said, "Well...I'll go see how many eggs I can find.", on our first morning with double the birds. He came back with 2. Whoops. I guess the girls were a little shy in their new home. Let's hope they warm up. I love that you give so many of yours away.