I have a small coop and have only so much room for where things are placed. Well today when I came home from work I went to go get my two eggs that are nomally out there, but when I opened the door there was only one egg in the nest. The other was on the floor and broke. I have 6 chickens in all and I am 100 positve that 2 are laying, one brown and one green. I have 4 brown layers and two green layers. So I dont know if this was a new brown layer that layed her first egg or if its the old one. The one that was on the floor was pecked, I think, it was hard to tell because the wood chips and dirt that were around it. The whole egg wasnt broken it just looked as if the smaller end had a hole in it or something. My problem is I leave the house at 6am and dont get home until 4:15ish. Hubbys hours are now the same as mine so I cant have him get the eggs eariler. What should I do? I know once a chicken gets a taste of the egg its hard to stop them from eating it right? I just dont know what to do now.
