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Everyone has their own method of flock raising...and you may get several different answers to your question. Please bear in mind that each method may have it's own merits.
I feed my flock raw eggs just about every day and I don't have any egg eating hens per say....meaning I have no hens that will go out of their way to go after eggs and break them open. I've found the opposite actually. If I give too many eggs the hens lose interest in eating the contents even when I have broken raw eggs open for them.
My feed contains protein from strictly plant sources and the hens may not be getting important amino acids that they would from an animal protein. I haven't seen my flock eat feathers since their first fall, and I have zero picking/blood thirst even when wounds and obvious blood (accidents) have been present on birds while in an overcrowded state. If a hen does lay a softer shell eggs that breaks...the flock will be opportunistic and eat the broken egg. I expect that...and prefer it to an egg left that may attract a predator.
Everyone has their own method of flock raising...and you may get several different answers to your question. Please bear in mind that each method may have it's own merits.
I feed my flock raw eggs just about every day and I don't have any egg eating hens per say....meaning I have no hens that will go out of their way to go after eggs and break them open. I've found the opposite actually. If I give too many eggs the hens lose interest in eating the contents even when I have broken raw eggs open for them.
My feed contains protein from strictly plant sources and the hens may not be getting important amino acids that they would from an animal protein. I haven't seen my flock eat feathers since their first fall, and I have zero picking/blood thirst even when wounds and obvious blood (accidents) have been present on birds while in an overcrowded state. If a hen does lay a softer shell eggs that breaks...the flock will be opportunistic and eat the broken egg. I expect that...and prefer it to an egg left that may attract a predator.
