Egg eating can't be stopped

[Hot Chick]

I tried the hollowing out technique with soap and with mustard turns out they love mustard and they don't care if there's soap

 

[Hot Chick]

I need help

 

[lazy gardener]

Be sure they have plenty of extra calcium to eat free choice. Give them plenty of extra ANIMAL protein. Gather the eggs as often as you can. I'm betting that when the weather warms up, they'll stop this annoying habit.

 

[SunkenRoadFarms]

This may sound gross, but I read in another egg eating thread of a member putting chicken droppings in an egg, since that's one thing they won't eat. Sorry, I can't remember if it worked!

 

[blucoondawg]

My chickens will eat a broken egg or they will eat eggs if it gets severely cold outside like negative 10 or colder, when it warms up they stop unless one breaks then they'll eat it

 

[aart]

How many birds?
How much space(feet by feet) in coop?
What and how exactly are you feeding them?

Crowding and lack of protein can be a problem.
If the eggs are thin shelled and get stepped on and break those eggs are fair game to be eaten.

 

[Hot Chick]

12 birds about 20X20 run and they get plenty of food from table scraps old fruits vegetables cracked corn and oyster shell

 

[blucoondawg]

Those sorts of foods probably don't offer a whole lot of proteins and maybe even fats, that could be the problem especially in colder weather, I don't know what your weather is like but the cold makes mine eat more eggs, it doesn't bother me I figure if they need it they need it.

 

[aart]

12 birds about 20X20 run and they get plenty of food from table scraps old fruits vegetables cracked corn and oyster shell

What about coop size?

Those sorts of foods probably don't offer a whole lot of proteins and maybe even fats, that could be the problem especially in colder weather, I don't know what your weather is like but the cold makes mine eat more eggs, it doesn't bother me I figure if they need it they need it.

Ditto blucoondawg.

If you're not feeding a feed that is nutritionally balanced for chickens,
then they are probably not getting the minerals, vitamins, amino acids, ect that they need
and are craving it so are eating whatever they can their little beaks into.