Talk:Tutorial/Automatic Chicken Egg Farm/@comment-212.139.109.72-20121208145052

Bit overkill, just put a transposer at ground level, surround by dirt, connect with underground redstone tubes to a timer and chest. I've got a 4x4 setup of transposers for my "free range" chickens.

You can also the same with a powered obsidian pipe, it just looks more of a mess.