Tutorials/Egg farming

Egg farming is the process of collect a large number of eggs from chickens.

You can farm eggs the traditional way, where you have to run around and collect eggs all the time.

Or you can for example build an automatic egg-collecting farm by using water to flush the eggs out of the coop.

I tried several designs and one that works great is the one from the second screenshot: Just dig a square hole 11 by 11 blocks and one block deep, then dig one more layer in a circle shape. You'll need an aditional one-block-hole in the center where the water (and the eggs) will flush out.

Now you need to build the "isle" to prevent the chicken from also being flushed out and to give them some ground to lay eggs that can hatch on to slowly expand the total population of chicken on your farm.

Connect the center drain hole to your system from below (F3 is your friend here), place water in the corners and you're good to go.