egg eating

  1. SniperGoose

    How to make chickens stop eating their own eggs?

    I have 9 hens; 6 Speckled Sussex, and 3 Black SexLink that are all around 2 years old. They've been eating their eggs a lot lately, so I'm constantly having to clean out their nest boxes, and of course I haven't been getting that many eggs due to this. I love my girls to death, but I really wish...
  2. CackleBabies

    Does anyone have experience with a hen choking on egg?

    My daughter discovered my year old (got her last March as a new chick) Silver Laced Wyandotte lying in the yard this afternoon. I thought she might have been hit by a car, but she wasn't near enough to the road to make it where she way laying. She had egg yolk coming out of her nostrils and...
  3. ChickenMorals

    Egg Eating

    So, I recently started caring for the school chickens. The issue is that the chickens are eating their eggs. The school has done nothing about this for around a year, but I'd like to stop this behavior. What do I do? I've heard putting golf balls in with the eggs works, or filling an empty shell...
  4. I

    Broken shell-less egg found under the roosts!

    Hi everyone, I have eight chickens and some have just started laying (we're getting 2-3 eggs daily). My chickens free range all day and are fed layer feed. (oyster shells are provided). The have all been healthy. This morning I found an egg under the roosts that seemed to be just a thin membrane...
  5. I

    Broken shell-less egg found under the roosts!

    Hi everyone, I have eight chickens and some have just started laying (we're getting 2-3 eggs daily). My chickens free range all day and are fed layer feed. (oyster shells are provided). The have all been healthy. This morning I found an egg under the roosts that seemed to be just a thin membrane...
  6. moogooch

    A brooder, several eaters, no laying

    I have five chickens, 3 Dominiques and 2 Buff Cochins, about 18 months old. Right now, one of the Cochins is broody, and has been for at least a month. She stills lays, but is the only one. The others have not been laying for the past month. I also have several egg eaters. I think the...
  7. C

    Egg eating, but midday layers

    We just purchased a new home and took on the previous owner's chickens. We've never had chickens before so we're jumping in head first. Our hens lay late morning to mid afternoon. This wouldn't be much of a problem if we didn't have an egg eater among them (possibly a habit picked up in the...
  8. barred2rock

    Do hens "sing" the egg song without laying?

    Three of my five BRs have large red combs & wattles (one of which has a larger c & w and has had it for about a month). On a couple occasions one or more of them has sang the egg song while up on their roost. But I've gone through their bedding (and of course the nest boxes) and have yet to find...
  9. Lazy Farmer

    Brown Chunks in my Egg??

    I have a couple eggs today that have a light brown chunk or two in them. Is this undigested food? It is not solid when I smashed it on a paper towel. I have recently switched to egg maker pellets mixed 50/50 with crumbles. WAS ONLY CRUMBLE. Never had chunks in the yokes before the diet change...
  10. SnowyChickenMomma

    Egg Eating- One of 9 chickens started eating the eggs

    We have 3 barred rocks, 3 red comets, and 3 leghorns. We average 6 eggs a day and some days we get as many as 8-11 but usually just 5 or 6. Yesterday I go out to get the eggs like I do every morning (9-10ish) and I only saw 4, I go grab them and they are all slimey so my first instinct was...
  11. SwedishFlower13

    Roosters climbing in nesting box, finding goo from smashed eaten eggs

    I've got 2 young (maybe 7-8 months old) SFH roos in with 2 hens (and some 2 month old pullets for future hen relief). I keep finding only one egg a day, or no eggs and wet egg goop in the hay in the nesting box. Today I've observed both roosters climbing into the nesting box, for who knows what...
  12. The Duck Mother

    Think ducks are eating incubating eggs, but why?!

    So one of our ducks, Mama, went broody about a week ago for the second time. She's an Ancona and was a great mother to her first clutch she hatched a few months ago. This time, she was sitting on 8 eggs. A couple days ago, I noticed there was only 7 eggs in the nest. And then today, there was...
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  13. FlyWheel

    Tips and recommendations for roll-away nests

    Hi I'm planning on designing a pair of roll away nesting boxes to (hopefully) put a stop to my hens' sudden craving for their own eggs. I have searched here and watched some YouTube videos on the subject but I still have a few questions. What (if anything) do you line the nesting area with...
  14. EggNV

    Oh, no! Egg eating!

    Oh, crap. Apparently one of our hens laid an egg in the run. Weird, really. They were roaming free and then during that time they went back into their run and someone laid IN the run. Haven't seen that happen. Anyway, how it was noticed is because they were pecking at something and, closer...
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