Mustard in Egg

[norcal]

We got our first (uneaten) egg today. However, it had a tiny peck hole in it.

The shell was hard, the egg was small, and it was laid on the floor behind the waterer. But, I'm still happy.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I just put out a liquid-soap egg with the egg eater, I'll keep you all posted on how it works....

 

[norcal]

Love my chickies!! :

I just put out a liquid-soap egg with the egg eater, I'll keep you all posted on how it works....

Please do, I'm still waiting and hoping and crossing my fingers that they don't eat them again. I can't be checking the coop 20 times a day like the last few days. And I still have one laying on the coop floor.

 

[Akane]

Repeat... chickens do not notice spicy things. I doubt wasabi will work either. People give them rather large amounts of pepper to deworm them or increase laying. They don't notice. Chickens are not fazed by spicy stuff.

 

[Kung Foo Chicken]

Try using Rosemary. There are three plants the chickens will not eat in their run here. Rosemary, Magnolia, Rose Of Sharon (Hibiscus Syriacus)

 

[mstricer]

egg eating chickens are all bad they wont stop because it is good maybe if it is the roo who started it you should eat him

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Please do, I'm still waiting and hoping and crossing my fingers that they don't eat them again. I can't be checking the coop 20 times a day like the last few days. And I still have one laying on the coop floor.

the soap-egg survived the night, and I got an egg from her this am, but then just went out to look for eggs, and the soap egg is in shreds, she didn't eat the soap as far as I can tell (the shavings underneath are soaked) but the shell is over 1/2 gone...

 

[Lovesilkty21]

I would try the soap egg again, and then she should start thinking hey these eggs sure don’t taste good any more!!!
Good luck

 

[Davaroo]

Weird chickens on your hands, for not being bitten by the mustard egg? Not at all.
You have just conducted your own "Mythbusters" episode.

The 'ol "mustard/hot pepper in the egg shell trick," is a sham of lore. It is one of those things we love to repeat and find all sorts of rationalization for - and which is patently false.

The boring truth is that chickens don't have the ability to taste such things as mustard or capsicin, the "hot" ingredient behind hot peppers. So they are not the least bit affected by them.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Maybe try the soap egg with an easter egg (plastic). I still think that the golf ball or other nest egg thing is the trick. Or the roll-away nests, as someone else posted. The roll-away nests make it so the chickens can't get to the eggs to eat them.