Egg eating?

[apriore]

We have 5 chickens. One lays olive green colored eggs. Everyday one of the chickens eats this egg. Same colored egg everyday. Other colors are untouched. All eat same feed Purina layena pellets or crumbles. High in oyster shell. Any thoughts?

 

[Gray Farms]

Its odd that they just eat that one egg. Better get it stopped before they start eating the rest. Best way I've found is take one of their eggs and blow it out, fill with yellow mustard, and put it back in the nest. Worked the very first time with a group of hens of mine that were eating egg really bad. They must hate yellow mustard.

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

Put fake eggs that color in the nest box

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

Or smother the shell of the egg in something they hate, i used crushed hot peppers

 

[Kiki]

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

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

Oh it worked on mine

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

Guess mine are sensitive

 

[Kiki]

Oh it worked on mine

The pepper is not what kept them from eating something....something else may have done the trick.

 

[chuckachucka]

Both the previous ideas are good. Anything to try to make them think that eggs are not good to eat. The trick is to break their cycle of eating the egg for just a couple of days and then they tend to stop. I had a hen who started eating her eggs and I has to watch her like a hawk for a few days and rush out there to take her egg before she could get the cha ce. After a few days she forgot about trying to eat them.

Also I had a hen who would stand up more when the egg came out and it would drop to the nest box floor with enough force to crack it. When the egg white started oozing out the hens couldn't resist eating it. Do you have enough bedding in the nestbox where the green egg is laid?

 

[Kiki]

Guess mine are sensitive

Being sensitive to the heat of peppers is just not possible with chickens.