Egg yolks splattered on nest boxes!

[Nanook33]

Today I didn't get my normal number of eggs. However, there is egg yolk splattered all over 2 nest boxes (the ones the hens don't use) There was no other trace of any eggs. Could they be eating their eggs? Wouldn't they leave the shells? Could it be a slimy snake? We DO have big black snakes here as they have eaten baby birds. (We since put netting & cedar chips where the nests are.) If it a snake-any ideas how to keep it out of the henhouse? We have small wire around the bottom & the top has wire on the chicken yard. Thanks in advance for any ideas.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

A snake will generally swallow an egg whole.

Could have been the hens if they found a soft shelled egg, they ate the membrane/shell and slung yolk all over the place.

If it happens again, you can put up a camera to see what's happening in the coop.

 

[TOR]

Chickens will eat the shells. I actually save shells, grind them eventually mix in feed. When a egg breaks the chickens usually eat the yolk and shell. I never had a chicken break and eat eggs, heard of it happening. Sometimes just get a softshell and they break.

 

[Nanook33]

A snake will generally swallow an egg whole.

Could have been the hens if they found a soft shelled egg, they ate the membrane/shell and slung yolk all over the place.

If it happens again, you can put up a camera to see what's happening in the coop.

 

[Nanook33]

Thank you. A camera is a great idea.

 

[Lelilamom]

I had a rooster that would see us coming up to the coop with the egg basket in hand and run into the coop and break every single egg. We'd arrive to find his whole face, beak and waddle covered in egg yolk.

We ate him.

 

[Nanook33]

I had a rooster that would see us coming up to the coop with the egg basket in hand and run into the coop and break every single egg. We'd arrive to find his whole face, beak and waddle covered in egg yolk.

We ate him.

LOL!!!

 

[Nanook33]

Thank goodness our rooster is on the mild side. (The 3 Wyandottes had to go) We've never seen him in the nest boxes...........yet.