Missing eggs! Help!

[Folly's place]

Pitch them all and start over! Food poisoning ain't worth a few eggs. Don't feed them to anyone else either.
Mary

 

[cluckcluckhens]

I have 3 chickens who have laid eggs very consistently until recently. I was getting 1-3 eggs a day and rarely went a day without an egg. They are 18 months old and lohman Browns. I don’t know if maybe they have decided to start laying them in some random other place I can’t find or they are just not laying.

My girls sometimes will eat them so I have a fake ceramic egg in the laying box. Hens lay more I heard if there is more eggs in the laying box. Look beside, and behind the laying boxes. Also look through the straw if you use this in the coop. Missing eggs could mean squirrels. Squirrels eat eggs I caught one in the box weeks ago here. I don't know your set up there but they could lay in a run, if they are not in an enclosure check those areas. Under trees, and bushes. Do you have roosting boards? Our girls at one time in their younger years was laying on the roosting board. When you look, look up toward the board. That is how I found ours many years ago.

 

[aart]

I've eaten floaters but I always crack them into a bowl first, that way if it's bad, I'm not adding it to my pan of good eggs.

That there is the key.