Taranaki/ManawaTu FarMing LiFesTyLes
Livestock
July 2013
19
ADVERTORIAL
The best nest box for collecting eggs When Sandra Pedersen left the Waikato 15 years ago she didn’t expect to be a lifestyle block owner or selling nest boxes.
brood had developed a taste for their own eggs as two days’ worth lay broken under their feet.
On a trip back to the Waikato when she left her chooks for the weekend, Sandra filled a hopper to ensure her
“I thought there would already be something on the market to solve this problem,” Sandra says.
chooks would be well fed and asked a friend to come in to collect the eggs every day. But on returning home her
ready-assembled. For more information and the full story visit Sandra’s website: ezynest.co.nz or call 06 856 6059.
The BEST way to
But there wasn’t, and Sandra is not the sort of person to accept second best and needed a solution to her problem. “I bought some nest trays and adapted the nest box, trialling and redesigning over a twelve-month period until I had a working solution,” she says. During 2012 Sandra worked with a number of designers and engineers to adapt her ideas and fine tune them into a working solution — an easy to clean nesting box to allow the backyard poultry keeper to work, play or go away for the weekend and come home to a full complement of eggs.
Eggs “roll away” into a collection tray
The New Zealand made EZYNEST ensures all eggs are protected from the hens and from dirt or damage. Ezynest come either flat-packed or
collect eggs
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• Suitable for up to 5 hens per nest • Available in single (5 hens), double (10 hens) & triple (15 hens) • Protect eggs from dirt and damage • Quality nz made
www.ezynest.co.nz Ph Sandra 06 856 6059
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