Chicken laid rotten, exploding egg

[coach723]

Sounds like a good plan. Check for eggs several times a day, as much as you can, and hopefully that will narrow down if they are actually being laid in that condition or not.

 

[sarahkin]

Thanks so much for your help.

If I do find any new eggs, I will be cracking them outside.

 

[coach723]

For sure!
I really hope it was just some old eggs.

 

[townchicks]

You can try putting the eggs in a plastic bag , then cracking them, to contain the mess. That might help with the smell too, but I suspect not entirely.

 

[sarahkin]

Came back to let you know you were right. I cleared out all the straw and there were 12 eggs WAY in the back, under an old rabbit hutch. Placed them into a ziploc very carefully and disposed of them.

Now, how to get them to lay somewhere more preferable? I figured if they don't want to climb the ladder, I'll put a box down low, so I put a wooden crate with some straw on the floor, with a fake egg in it. Came back to find the crate tipped over and the fake egg missing! The whole run was locked (and it has a roof/floor) and is only 70sf, would a chicken roll a fake egg somewhere else? Now I have to take all the straw out again I guess...

 

[Eggcessive]

You may have a broody hen who is moving all of the eggs to a spot where she can sit on them. Good to hear younfound the problem. I had a little bantam who squeezed under a nest box in a hollow area, and laid about 16 eggs once several years ago.

 

[Aunt Angus]

You may have a broody hen who is moving all of the eggs to a spot where she can sit on them. Good to hear younfound the problem. I had a little bantam who squeezed under a nest box in a hollow area, and laid about 16 eggs once several years ago.

Same thing happened to my sister. She had a broody who decided she was going to raise a family no matter what. She managed to hide 14 eggs. When they hatched, they were all roos. Every. Last. One. My sis and her family ate a lot of chicken dinners not long after....

 

[Nardo]

She had a broody who decided she was going to raise a family no matter what. She managed to hide 14 eggs. When they hatched, they were all roos. Every. Last. One.