agabrysh
In the Brooder
- Mar 7, 2016
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Chicken Help. chickens are eating eggs ( we think)
Hello Everyone, i am wondering if some of you could help me with my chicken flock. we have only had hens for a year. we have 4 hens that are about 2 years old and one that is about a year old. in the last 2 weeks we added 3 pullets that are about 13 weeks old. currently we have 2 of the 2 yr old hens that are broody and sitting on there golf balls in the same nesting box
Our coop is 8x4 and has 3 nesting boxes on one side and 2 roosts on the other side with a pen about about 14 x 18 ft.
We have never had missing eggs until recently and we don't know who the culprit is. We started with 5 fertilized eggs under our broody hens and now we only have 2. we have also noticed our egg production down but with a coupe broody hens it didn't stick out.
I feel like its the pullets but i'm not sure. they don't roost with the other hens, they kick them off the lower roost. The pullets roost on the nesting box lip.
How can i tell who's eating the eggs? i check beeks and don't see anything on it
thanks in advance for the help
Hello Everyone, i am wondering if some of you could help me with my chicken flock. we have only had hens for a year. we have 4 hens that are about 2 years old and one that is about a year old. in the last 2 weeks we added 3 pullets that are about 13 weeks old. currently we have 2 of the 2 yr old hens that are broody and sitting on there golf balls in the same nesting box
Our coop is 8x4 and has 3 nesting boxes on one side and 2 roosts on the other side with a pen about about 14 x 18 ft.
We have never had missing eggs until recently and we don't know who the culprit is. We started with 5 fertilized eggs under our broody hens and now we only have 2. we have also noticed our egg production down but with a coupe broody hens it didn't stick out.
I feel like its the pullets but i'm not sure. they don't roost with the other hens, they kick them off the lower roost. The pullets roost on the nesting box lip.
How can i tell who's eating the eggs? i check beeks and don't see anything on it
thanks in advance for the help