Broken eggs mystery

[K0k0shka]

You made your nestboxes look like an owl face?!?

Okay, so normal behavior for a hen (for the roos, too, when you have them) is to "clean up" any broken egg, so it won't attract predators to the other eggs, or eggs to be laid in the near future. That's the primary purpose of egg-eating behavior.

So, your job as chief feeder/waterer/caregiver is to make it so it's difficult to accidentally break an egg. Which can be tough in cold weather, when eggs freeze and crack.

But, seriously...
You made your nestboxes look like an owl face?!?

Cleaning up makes sense, but the little buttholes are actually pecking the eggs open on purpose, so that's a problem...

And... yeah, I guess it looks like an owl face I was going for a chicken face, with the scalloped edge of the top lid being the comb