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jlwquilter said:
Can you separate your flock into smaller groups for a few days to narrow down who the egg eater is? If you can do even just 2 groups you’ll eliminate half of them. Then keep adding to the good girl group until the culprit shows up. Not saying it’s quick and easy to do but it’s a way to figure it out.

What you found does sound deliberate. I’d be afraid she’ll teach the others to do it too. Then it’ll be a BIG problem. I had a cow that figured out how to deliberately get under the fencing and into my planted yard. At first it was kind of funny. Then she got smarter and would slip back into the pasture as she saw me head over to shoo her back in. The minute I walked away she slid back under the fencing. Still kind of funny and admirable. Then the other cows started doing the same thing. Not funny anymore and I had to completely redo the fence at considerable cost or get rid of all the cows and start over. I redid the fence. I should have gotten rid of the problem cow early on instead. Lesson learned.
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I don't really have a big enough area to separate them. I have a small above ground coop that could hold 4, but there are 19 hens, 1 rooster and 3 pullets in that coop. It's 10 x 10 and they have free access to a large fenced yard and 2 acres they can get to if they want to. Usually they go into the outer area for short periods during the day. Otherwise they stay in the fenced area. They go in the coop to lay eggs, eat, and for the night. So, I don't think it is over crowding. When I butcher the 2 bachelor boys then I will have another small coop that I could put another 4 to 6 hens in. So I guess after I butcher the 2 extra boys, I will try the separation technique using the 2 small coops. :D

12 eggs today and possibly another eaten egg. The only indication is some stuff on one of the shells I collected.
 
Had one to put in compost and bad news my little banty barred rock was have awful time could not kick what the four brought in so put her out of misery tonight pour girl so small always happy awful molt on top of it felt so bad d2mad_saya_mage2.gif
 
I’m so sorry the little hen couldn’t recover. Illness and a hard molt - that’s a tough combo. Not prolonging suffering is the humane thing to do, as hard as that is.

You said your flock aren’t pets. Do you have them for personal egg production or selling or...?
 
jlwquilter said:
I’m so sorry the little hen couldn’t recover. Illness and a hard molt - that’s a tough combo. Not prolonging suffering is the humane thing to do, as hard as that is.

You said your flock aren’t pets. Do you have them for personal egg production or selling or...?
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Both eggs for us and to sell actually I kept trying to figure out who was my banty in the main coop guess I figured it out :rant
 

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