Milk and Chickens?

[Chicks Galore3]

I just read that giving chickens milk for a couple days will stop egg eating. Is this true? The only reason I can think of why it would help would be the calcium in it, and I already have oyster shell out.

 

[Impress]

I haven't found a tried or true method for solving egg eating, it seems what works for some, doesn't work for others, and sometimes that habit can never be broken.

 

[roostersandhens]

No, the milk method is not true. The best way to stop egg-eating, is by putting out wooden eggs. They will peck those, get nothing, and learn to stop. They sell them at most feed-stores. Also collect eggs as soon as possible until they stop egg eating. The wooden egg method usually takes a few days.
Good luck!

 

[donrae]

I don't think most hens eat eggs for the shell, they eat them for the yummy yolk inside. At least, when I drop an egg, or one breaks in the nest box, that's what they go for. The do eventually eat the shell, but it's the last thing to go down.

 

[Moody Broody]

No, don't give them milk, because what you'll really be giving them is diaoreah. Give her wooden eggs or imitation eggs.
I've heard that people even fill empty egg shells with mustard will get them off the taste for raw eggs, because after a bite into that shell....

 

[Chicks Galore3]

I would try mustard but they like it....