Help!!!!! Egg Eating!!!!!!!!!!

[lvchicken]

Would Dish Detergent poison them?

 

[Lollipop]

Quote:
I think they would be so repulsed by the first taste that they wouldn`t get enough of it to bother them..........Pop

 

[Lollipop]

Quote:
Aside from the dish soap in the egg idea for the egg eaters, the feather eating could be one of two things, maybe both. Overcrowding is one. The other is lack of protein. To up the protein level, you can simply add a few morsels of cheap dry catfood, ber bird, 2-3 times a week. Another good source is to buy a bag of calf manna at the feed store and mix it in to their feed at 10-20%. Ya don`t wanna overdo any of it as to much protein is as bad as to little..........Pop

 

[mulelovr]

I've been told that the reason the chickens do that is because of lack of roughage. You can throw tiny pea gravel in the pen, or buy Poultry Grit or ground oyster shell. The lack of grit or roughage is also one of the reasons they will peck at each others feathers.

 

[schellie69]

Quote:
I would got to a game bird feed with like 22% protein it has helped my girls who free ranged. It stopped the feather pecking. I would try that it might help some. Good luck.