I got a full coop running with many eggs a day, and the meter dont move..You don't have to pick them up yourself. They just need to be gathered by someone or something from egg-laying creatures on your farm. You don't even need to turn over the eggs gathered during the time. (I had dinos lay eggs during that time, but all I gave him was chicken eggs I got from my fridge.)
Were they already auto-grabbed before you accepted the quest? Mine only counted eggs laid after.Here's the screen shot. Taking the eggs from the Auto-Grabber didnt count as "Gather"
with duck eggs?"Right Click" your eggs in Auto Grabber, it counts and it works for me.
Im right at the save point and i can reproduce this bug anytime. hell i gonna do a video of it..All eggs I gathered from the auto-grabber counted (including duck and dino) for the gather part of the quest. I only gave chicken eggs in the fridge for the second part. Easy. Done. No problem.