Egg eating?

[DrFeathers]

2 days ago the pointy end of my RSL egg had faint marks like almost cracked but didn’t quite.

Yesterday she randomly laid on the back patio (has never laid outside of nest boxes and is 11 months old) and the egg was crushed at the pointy end I guess from hitting the pavers.

Today my wife found this one in the nest box, emptied out with some egg white spilled out in bottom of nest box. This was the first time an egg was eaten.

The girls had kicked most of the straw out of the nest boxes, as they do from time to time, so the bottom was mostly bare linoleum where this one landed. The calcium feeder was low but not empty and the egg shell is normal thickness. I refilled the calcium and topped up the nest boxes with pine shavings and straw so nice and soft. They have plenty of food, manna pro layer pellets, same as usual. The 5gal waterer was low but not empty, I refilled of course.

Coincidentally, within the last 4 days my BO and SLW both came into lay after each not laying since November (slackers!) and the SLW was a nasty beast when she first came into lay last August - I was at work all day so not sure if that was happening today but she was raucous over the weekend the day that first egg of the spring came out her.

Help, chicken heroes! Am I missing anything? Everywhere it says to make sure you nip this in the bud ASAP - can you all think of anything I didn’t do already?

 

[Grosssara]

I have an easter egger doing the same exact thing, her shells started out really good, but with extra calcium deposits on them. And now it’s been about four months, And her shells are paper thin, if not just the membrane and always ALWAYS eaten.
I have extra oyster shell available (they won’t touch it) along with egg shells, I’ve redesigned the nest boxes to be more of a rollaway type, but to no avail. She keeps eating them.
I’m honestly at my wits end, I don’t have the heart to cull... but, she ain’t holding up her end of the bargain.

 

[Peppercorngal]

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I have an easter egger doing the same exact thing, her shells started out really good, but with extra calcium deposits on them. And now it’s been about four months, And her shells are paper thin, if not just the membrane and always ALWAYS eaten.
I have extra oyster shell available (they won’t touch it) along with egg shells, I’ve redesigned the nest boxes to be more of a rollaway type, but to no avail. She keeps eating them.
I’m honestly at my wits end, I don’t have the heart to cull... but, she ain’t holding up her end of the bargain.

You may want to try to find some very fine oyster shell so she doesn't realize it's oyster shell! Mix it with the food and she can't help but get some when she eats. ??

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Chickens can't taste the heat of hot peppers like humans can....that won't deter them.

If you grow hot peppers like Tabasco, etc that are red when ripe then you had best put your pepper pots out of reach of your hens because your hens will eat every pepper that you are able to grow.