Ideas needed, egg eating broody......

[Lollipop]

Fred's Hens :

Protein= check
Calcium= check

Honestly? You've got egg eating birds. I'd start over quickly. cull.

Thanks Fred. I know this is headed in that direction. I don`t hesitate to cull because I`m squimish about it, I`ve been culling hard all my life, but these fowl are hard to come by and from excellent bloodlines. I would just like to find a remedy, if possible......Pop​

 

[ihvpower]

Oh my gosh...I had 2 egg-eating hens, one was a white leghorn and the other was a red sexlink. I set them up one day as I was getting NO eggs and the nests were a mess. I tried the Calcium and Vitamins, the golf balls and everything else that I heard about. No GO. I stood and watched after putting eggs in a nest box, and like you said, they DOVE into the box for them. One I was able to rehome to a guy on a farm and the other was Sunday dinner. Since then, I have been getting a dozen a day..

I know how you feel about your special birds and hope you do find a rememdy!! let us all know and best of luck

 

[Uzuri]

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I can say for sure that peepes don't work for this particular problem -- I've got them on my girls, and I'm fighting egg eaters at the moment. Peepers are going for things that require fine control (grabbing feathers), but eggs are a big target!

 

[dgecko]

do you eat eggs? If so save the shells let them DRY. place shells in a blender and blend away. Now you can feed it to your chickens. good source of Calcium
might stop her from eating eggs if you fry her up

 

[bywaterdog]

Good bloodlines does not always equal a quality bird.. I would name one of them gumbo, the other fricassee and then have them "over for supper."

 

[Lollipop]

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I agree completely and it probably will come to that, but at the same time, eating eggs does not mean they aren`t quality birds. Quite the contrary in this case, not only quality, but rare, which is why I am making an effort to salvage them. I may end up obtaining other hens to hatch their eggs, if the rollout nest works out. I used an incubator years ago, but have since come to prefer hen hatching. My old cock is getting long of tooth and is a superb specimen of a bloodline that needs to be preserved. Any others with opinions would be welcome.........Pop