The invention relates to a control unit for an egg conveyor belt, comprising a conveyor belt drive mechanically coupled with the conveyor belt and designed to drive the egg conveyor belt at one of at least two different speeds and an image recording unit to record an image section of the conveyor belt. An evaluation unit is coupled by means of signal technology to the image recording unit. A counting unit is designed to count all eggs detected in one image recording of the image recording unit on the image segment of the conveyor belt as stocking density, which is coupled by means of signal technology to an evaluation unit and to the conveyor belt drive, whereby the speed of the conveyor belt drive in dependence of the stocking density is controlled.
