Lady Amhearst eating their eggs-what to do?

[poultrylady]

I have a pen of these, 1 roo 4 hens, they eat every egg laid. It is so aggravating, They are well fed with high protein feed, oyster shell provided, fresh water everyday. Does anyone know of anything I can do to stop them from doing this? They also have two laying boxes in the pen, I made the opening smaller thinking that might help, it didn't. They have a large pen and are not crowded. I have 5 other pens of different varieties of pheasants and I have never had an egg eaten in their pens. They are all raised the same. I don't know if it is the roo or the hens, I cannot catch any of them doing it, I had four eggs eaten yesterday.

 

[cva34]

Knowing little about those kinda birds I was thinking about slope the floor of the nesting box so the eggs would roll into a protected area. If possible.If there on wire floor slope it to get eggs out of harms way.Just a quick thought ...cva34

 

[MollyAngel]

My hens do it too- except there are twenty of them so we still get about a dozen a day. I suggest filling an empty egg shell with a sharp mustard. Then you put it where they lay and the "chomper" will eat it. Hopefully this will solve your problem. You also may need to do it several times.

 

[adriano]

Are they laying in the nest boxes ? If so try the roll away method.
Have they plenty of cover to lay in or are they laying in open ?

 

[poultrylady]

They do have nest boxes and some cover but they just lay their eggs wherever they want, they will not use the nest boxes.

 

[neck1950]

yes give them a hard boilded chicken egg ever so often

 

[neck1950]

let them eat hard boild chicklen egg ever so offted

 

[neck1950]

try feeding them hard boiled chicken eggs ever so often, feed is not right ..

 

[xitrum]

I have a pen of these, 1 roo 4 hens, they eat every egg laid. It is so aggravating, They are well fed with high protein feed, oyster shell provided, fresh water everyday. Does anyone know of anything I can do to stop them from doing this? They also have two laying boxes in the pen, I made the opening smaller thinking that might help, it didn't. They have a large pen and are not crowded. I have 5 other pens of different varieties of pheasants and I have never had an egg eaten in their pens. They are all raised the same. I don't know if it is the roo or the hens, I cannot catch any of them doing it, I had four eggs eaten yesterday.

I have my own experiences about this matter but happened to Swinhoe.
I have 1 roo + 2 hens. I found out some eggs laid in the beginning of the season were pecked.
Lucky than you, I saw the roo pecking egg.
- Thus, I drive the 2 hens to another pen ( next to its existing pen) on the day they lay egg ( Note: the 2 hen lay egg every 2 day, so easy to know which day of laying egg). After laying eggs, I let the 2 hens back to their roo.
- If you could not try that way, let put many "dummy" egg inside the pen. They will peck them and might give up pecking egg ... My friend, who raise many Silver pheasant, have successfully applied this method to save silver pheasant egg.
Good luck

 

[Winter Chicken]

There are lots of ways to stop egg eating. A funny way is to blow an egg(poke 2 holes in egg and blow into 1)and fill the egg with spicey mustard. Then put it in the nestbox.onother way is to make a wooden egg.