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    How do you stop a hen from eating her eggs ?

    Really, chickens can't taste hot peppers...how do you know that?
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    Does anyone know why an egg has spots on the outside sometimes?

    its not blood, a few times the splattering was white. I thought maybe extra calcium hthat is depositing on the egg shell or something. But the last two eggs from her have had the light brown splatters, i doesn't wipe off.....though it might scrub off.
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    Does anyone know why an egg has spots on the outside sometimes?

    I have a chicken that is laying eggs with spots. They almost look like paint splatters. She lays a brown egg and the spots are a slightly lighter shade of brown. She just started doing this. She started laying about 8 -12 weeks ago and is a barred rock.
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    How do you stop a hen from eating her eggs ?

    I am hoipng to nip this problem in the bud, but if she doesn't shape up.........it's going to mean "curtains" for her. She's two years old, so I don't think she'd be good meat anymore.
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    How do you stop a hen from eating her eggs ?

    I have to say that is a fantastic idea ! Its funny they all use the same nesting boxes. I have five boxes. And they use one box and have one spot on top of a bale of hay that they use. And she seems to only be eating her own eggs not anyone elses eggs. But the next one she lays that I see, I...
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    How do you stop a hen from eating her eggs ?

    Maybe I will put curtains on my nesting boxes.
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    How do you stop a hen from eating her eggs ?

    So...does anyone think that if I cage her up with fake eggs with hotpick on them that it will stop her from eating her own eggs? She is allowed to free range about 12 hours a day and bad habits are hard to get rid of. So any other ideas? I just gave them 4 cups of oyster shells and a large tub...
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    How do you stop a hen from eating her eggs ?

    I'll try sticking some wooden eggs in the nest and give them more oyster shell. They do eat what I put out for them now. I put out about a cup or two weekly. Maybe they need more.
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    How do you stop a hen from eating her eggs ?

    ......Now she commands the kiddie pool? Your chickens swim? She was kept in a 2 x 4 wire cage by herself, I think that is why she started eating her eggs. She now is free ranging bird, so you would think she would stop, but she has not. I give them calcium, so I don't think it is that. Do you...
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    How do you stop a hen from eating her eggs ?

    Someone gave me a 2 year old bantam hen and she is eating her eggs ! How do I stop her from doing that?
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    Sulmet- I just finished treatment....now blood in stool again

    I gave them the recommended dose on the back of the bottle. Two days full dose, 4 days half dose. They are free ranging birds. but they are eating grower pellets and scraps from the table. (no meat) The weather has been in the 70's and 80's for the last couple of weeks. They are all ages. Most...
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    Sulmet- I just finished treatment....now blood in stool again

    I just finished treating my flock yesturday with Sulmet for having runny bloody poo ......and now I noticed that at least one of the chickens still has traces of blood in its stool. What should I do?
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    How long after treating with Sulmet can the eggs be eatten by humans?

    Thank you for all the input from everyone. This forum has been very helpful.
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    How long after treating with Sulmet can the eggs be eatten by humans?

    I have already started them on the Sulmet so I don't think I will switch at this point. To not give them the recommended dose isn't that the same as not finishing the antibiotics that a doctor would give a human (which is a bad thing to do because not finishing the medication can allow the...
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    How long after treating with Sulmet can the eggs be eatten by humans?

    What other solution is there when a chicken or two in a flock gets runny bloody stools?
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