Chickeng1rl567
Songster
I have 5 hens and 3 pullets (the pullets are living separately right now). We often find the nesting box covered in crusty dried up egg with other eggs coated in dried egg. Clearly, a chicken is pecking and eating eggs and then leaving a mess. We’ve found egg on some of our hens’ heads and bodies. We observed an episode where one hen found her egg on the roost floor(long story short she is bullied and occasionally she lays one there despite multiple nesting boxes!) and she rolled it out into the main area and pecked it, and then all of the hens including her devoured it. We’ve put fake eggs inside all the nesting boxes to try and stop it, and those haven’t stopped the eating completely but it happens less often. We’ve been trying also to collect eggs quickly and multiple times a day. Despite our efforts, yesterday yet another egg was eaten. It’s a hard habit to break in hens. Any advice on how to stop this?