Egg Eating Chicken and I am out of ideas

[cash money]

I give to it and protect it and give it a good life and sometimes it has to give back to me

 

[aliciasimon]

I like the first tip in this link:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/six-tips-on-breaking-your-egg-eater

Chickens respond very well to unpleasant things. One of my chickens discovered pecking the french door from the house to the backyard. She seemed to like the caulking around the windows on the doors. I have no idea why. The pecking was super annoying and of course my dogs weren't crazy about something "knocking at the door". I tried to shoo her away several times but she is evil (she really is) and kept coming back. Pretty soon other chickens were doing this as well. I have had them for over a year and this is a recent discovery on their part. One day I got so fed up, I filled a measuring cup with water and tossed the water at the evil hen. She baaaack baaaaaaaaaked loudly, fluttered away in a huff and I haven't had the problem since.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it worked

 

[SD Bird Lady]

I keep seeing to use hot sauce as a deterrent. However, I've read elsewhere that chickens dont have the receptors for heat and therefore are unaffected by things such as hot peppers. Just curious if anyone has first hand experience.

 

[3 NH reds]

I keep seeing to use hot sauce as a deterrent. However, I've read elsewhere that chickens dont have the receptors for heat and therefore are unaffected by things such as hot peppers. Just curious if anyone has first hand experience.

I went with the hot sauce route loaded with black pepper and had no luck. I had more than one egg eater and even started moving birds out to find out how many did this. But the roll out nesting box did it and it was only $10 or less. Now I don't even need it.

 

[SD Bird Lady]

I would be interested to see if there are ideas.for rollout nests inside a building...if I dont want to cut a hole in he side of my shed.

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[Blooie]

Quote:There is a place somewhere on here where someone built a rollout nest box and the eggs roll to the back of the nests, down and onto a sloped platform where they can be gathered from inside the coop. My rollout nest boxes roll to the outside of the coop. I'll see if I can find that other one for you. In the meantime, you can type, "Rollout nest boxes" up in the search box and a ton of ideas should come up.

 

[Blooie]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/757826/roll-out-nest-box-input-suggestion

 

[SD Bird Lady]

Thank you for the link @Blooie

 

[Blooie]

Thank you for the link @Blooie

You are very welcome. I hope you find some things that help.

 

[amyandkids]

house mouse I hope you find a resolution to your issue!