Egg eater!!!

milleryardchx

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Woke up this morning to go get eggs my favorite chicken was sitting there chowing down on four eggs!!!! What do I do can? Can she stop? or is she dinner? She is my favorite hen a big pretty buff Brahma
 
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First off you need to isolate her so she doesn't teach the rest of the hens her bad habits. Some people have found that by upping the protein in the feed stops the egg eating. Otherwise, I guess it's freezer camp.
 
search for egg eaters, i'll bet there are probably 1000 posts on them already
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i know i've answered probably 20-30 of them with LISTS of known ways to stop them, i always short-change it now lol.
 
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I have a whole flock of hens who will eat their own eggs, but I've always been able to stop them. I give them calcium (oyster shells), which thickens the eggshell. They usually give up on trying to peck through the shell when I do that. Also, I've found that they like to push the hay in their nesting boxes to the side so that the bare wood on the bottom is what they lay their eggs on. This cracks the egg so it looks interesting enough to eat. If I take care of these main things when they turn up, the hens usually stop eating their eggs. It's an ongoing management thing; we only have the chickens for eggs and pets, so it hasn't really been that big of a deal for us. Hope your hen stops her egg-eating!
 

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