How do you gather your eggs?

[Sally PB]

I had one for both coat pockets this morning!

One of the hens is back online, and another is looking close. Soon I will need my egg basket.

 

[3KillerBs]

I had one for both coat pockets this morning!

The Dickies work jacket's pockets have plenty of room for at least 6-8 eggs -- the trick being to not put them in the same pocket with keys, nails, pliers, etc.

In the same pocket as the phone is OK -- IF I'm careful when putting the phone back in after taking flock photos.

 

[STACEYH]

I do pockets, after I collect for the first time. I just have to remember to move slower and not hit the door frame when I leave. I have had sticky pockets do to being rushed.

 

[Brooks_]

I usually lift the bottom of my shirt to form a pouch/basket. Though I don't usually have a shirt in the summer so a real basket then.

 

[MClean417]

A couple years ago Walmart had little egg baskets for sale after easter for a dollar each. We bought 3. Handy. Similar baskets sale at the farm store for about 20 and are exactly like the medium baskets of balls at the golf driving range. In any case the three we have don't show any appreciable wear so I'm good. At this time of year though I usually just put the one or two eggs in my hoody pockets. I do have a new hen laying eggs thats decided that, instead of using the nesting boxes of either of my two coops, she's going to the neighbors yard and laying them by a garden wall. Picked another two up yesterday. At least she's not broody. I did watch her run over to the garden last Sunday but there's old pumpkins there. When I looked back though, she wasn't at the pumpkins. An hour later I went looking for her and found her sitting on her fresh egg, about 3 feet from her previous egg that showed signs of being her first. Shes part Polish and evidently part Easter Egger so she's Buff with a not quite pom pom crest but her eggs are blue.

 

[PopPop Roberts]

I have a gallon orange Halloween pail with a layer of wood chips in the bottom. I keep it in my dry basement with all my chicken and bird feed. My 5 year old great granddaughter loves to carry it whenever she visits to assist me with egg gathering. It has become my go to container for collecting eggs daily.

 

[Swivelhip]

In the summer, shirt cupped to make a pouch. In the winter, the pocket of my Carhartt (I also fill the woodstove after I gather the eggs and have not broken one yet). I do like the spiral holder to keep the eggs in order.

 

[goldenyears]

Plastic ice cream bucket with some hay

Do they eat the ice cream?!?!

 

[goldenyears]

 

[chickencoop57]

I use a small tin can, to collect them in the evenings. I have 19 hens and got my first 14 eggs, yesterday and it almost filled the can. Then I bring them into the house and transfer them into a basket similar to the one 'Happy Hen Lover' shows in her pic, but I do need something better to collect them in because the tin can has no handle. I don't like using egg cartons because of the dirty eggs, due to the ground being wet. Egg cartons are hard enough to come by.