Egg Eating Chicken and I am out of ideas

[Egg Thief]

Hello I have an egg eater and it solves it every time when you keep them well watered and you keep them well fed and to just ramp up the oyster shells

 

[amyandkids]

I hope the O.P. finds a solution for her hen. No matter what anyone's opinion is I respect it! All I know is everyone LOVES there chickens as pets for eggs or as meat!

 

[yellowchicks]

I love my 4 new chickens, just your ordinary Leghorns, have them for 3 months. I also love to eat chickens, have no problem BBQing or cooking chicken while admiring my own. The problem is when I raise them, they became my pets, emotions are invested. I just can't kill or eat my pets, even if they are just livestock's to most people. So after reading this thread, we decided to build a rollout nest box just in case.

 

[sweetdanat]

I know I'm kinda late to the discussion, but I had a similar experience last year with a leghorn that was laying softer shelled eggs than normal and the other two hens realized "breakfast" was waiting in the morning! I watched them literally stalk her while she was in the nesting box and even peek under her to see if anything was there yet.

So here's what I did, and I know I'm going to get some criticism--but it WORKED.
1: I increased sources of calcium and protein to harden shells and satisfy appetites.
2: Tossed in golf balls which they pecked like mad to no avail.
3: Here's the gross part-we all know the one thing chickens will NOT eat...their own poo. It freaks them out. I carefully (with rubber gloves!) filled an empty shell (cracked in half) with some poo and put back together gently and placed near nesting box. They were not happy!!

I know it's disgusting. I know it's probably unhealthy if they actually ingested it, but I'm serious when I say it worked immediately!

 

[Xiao Casa]

I know I'm kinda late to the discussion, but I had a similar experience last year with a leghorn that was laying softer shelled eggs than normal and the other two hens realized "breakfast" was waiting in the morning! I watched them literally stalk her while she was in the nesting box and even peek under her to see if anything was there yet.

So here's what I did, and I know I'm going to get some criticism--but it WORKED.
1: I increased sources of calcium and protein to harden shells and satisfy appetites.
2: Tossed in golf balls which they pecked like mad to no avail.
3: Here's the gross part-we all know the one thing chickens will NOT eat...their own poo. It freaks them out. I carefully (with rubber gloves!) filled an empty shell (cracked in half) with some poo and put back together gently and placed near nesting box. They were not happy!!

I know it's disgusting. I know it's probably unhealthy if they actually ingested it, but I'm serious when I say it worked immediately!

OK, that is gross. But at least it worked the first time!!

 

[hennible]

I like it! It worked that's great. Gross but great.... Could break a lot of bad animal habits with their own poo I bet... Lol

 

[SirUlrichsMom]

My flock had some egg eaters. One day I was out in the pen with them and saw through the window a fight break out over a freshly laid egg. I had 13 hens that I had only had for a couple of weeks, so the few eggs I had gotten I had assumed was just from the stress from moving and getting adjusted. id had fake eggs in their nest that kept ending up not just outside of the nest boxes, but outside of the house.
I tried pulling eggs several times a day and still couldn't get them fast enough. I tried upping the calcium, and protein to no avail. My attempts to fill an egg failed, so I didn't try that.
One day I thought enough is enough, I took some older eggs out into the run along with my little dollar store broom I uses in the coop and I put the eggs on the ground in the run and let the hens out. When the hens went after the eggs I used the broom the scare the living daylights out of them. after several minutes they got tired of it and they went to pecking at other stuff. As a test I left those eggs in the run in a pyramid pattern for 6 days other than getting bummed around a little they didn't move. And 2 days after I did this I had 11 eggs out 13 hens that where laying.
Since I did this I have only had eggs eaten a few times, usually when they get dropped in the house by my son or nephew, but they are trying to help and they are only 3 and 4.

 

[Dustystrail]

My flock had some egg eaters. One day I was out in the pen with them and saw through the window a fight break out over a freshly laid egg. I had 13 hens that I had only had for a couple of weeks, so the few eggs I had gotten I had assumed was just from the stress from moving and getting adjusted. id had fake eggs in their nest that kept ending up not just outside of the nest boxes, but outside of the house.
I tried pulling eggs several times a day and still couldn't get them fast enough. I tried upping the calcium, and protein to no avail. My attempts to fill an egg failed, so I didn't try that. 
One day I thought enough is enough, I took some older eggs out into the run along with my little dollar store broom I uses in the coop and I put the eggs on the ground in the run and let the hens out. When the hens went after the eggs I used the broom the scare the living daylights out of them. after several minutes they got tired of it and they went to pecking at other stuff.  As a test I left those eggs in the run in a pyramid pattern for 6 days other than getting bummed around a little they didn't move. And 2 days after I did this I had 11 eggs out 13 hens that where laying. 
Since I did this I have only had eggs eaten a few times, usually when they get dropped in the house by my son or nephew, but they are trying to help and they are only 3 and 4.

Love the broom story! Reminds me of my own broom story and my horse... years ago. Those brooms are pretty scary and highly effective tools when you need them!

 

[cash money]

The reason we got hens is we get eggs and if something happens we can put them in a pot

 

[cash money]

I now what kind of life this chicken has had I now it got good feed and got to free range on an acre of green grass and orange and grape fruit trees they had a large garden plot to dust bath in