Build your own chicken nest with drawer

What you need:

• 1 small chipboard 15 mm thick
• 2.5 m roof batten
• Foam rubber mat 40x80cm
• Wood glue
• Carpet strips
• 80 cm angle sheet
• 40s nails

Such a chicken nest will be fun for your chickens

It should be said in advance that the dimensions given are sufficient even for heavy breeds of chicken. Place the nest in a darkened and raised part of the house - chickens like to retire to lay. One nest is enough for about 4 chickens.

1. For the side walls, cut 2 parts with a size of 40 x 53 cm. The rear wall can be omitted if the chicken nest is to be attached directly to the wall of the barn. You measure the lid and the bottom with 40 x 40cm and with 43cm box height you build the bottom.
2. The connection is made by pieces of the roof batten, which are glued in at the corners. Of course, they can also be nailed. The bottom has a sufficiently large hole that should be offset backwards so that the egg can roll out.
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3. Such a facility is very important for a chicken that has developed the bad habit of eating eggs. In this way it can no longer get to the egg and you save the trouble of cleaning up the dirt that arises there.
4. Pad the floor in such a way that a hollow is created with a slope on all sides towards the hole. The front can remain open - the chicken always sits with its head forward on the nest.


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5. Now use the 10 cm protruding downwards to hold the slide. It can slide on an angled sheet and must also be well padded so that the egg does not burst when it is rolled out. It is sufficient if the slide is narrower than the chicken nest.
6. A smart solution instead of a slide is to construct a bevel where the egg extends by itself The front edge rolls, where it is gently braked by a strip of carpet and can only be removed got to. A slide becomes superfluous.