Last year I was having a real bad time with the eggs from one of my coops being dirty all the time. Nobody wants to collect dirty eggs each day and because of a certain hen, it was happening all too frequently around here. Up until then I had collected clean eggs daily from the nest boxes, so obviously I needed to fix something!
The problem had been hens sleeping in the nest boxes. Well, ok there was a rooster that was doing it too but Hei Hei is a totally different story. Let's just say he really takes after his namesake! Anyway, here is How I got my chickens to stop sleeping in the nest boxes. This is probably the number 1 factor in keeping my eggs clean!
Other than that issue I rarely have a problem with dirty eggs and I attribute that to these practices.
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Gathering dirty eggs? Here's how I get clean eggs from the nest boxeswas originally posted by Favorite Chicken Blogs
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