My chicken is eating it's own egg

[eggs and chicks]

it wont make her sick but it is still bad 'cause you lose a-lot of eggs mine do it too

 

[graham1996]

If you let her do it for too long, she will acquire a taste for them, then even with calcium supplements like oyster shell, she will still eat her eggs as well as others

 

[RezChamp]

Oh My Gosh>thank you so much. also thank you for the other stuff

Hi. RezChamp here.
Yup. Bad habit. She can actually teach others the same habit. Problem could only be beginning.
Gotta get in the coop regularly to gather eggs.
You can buy wooden eggs or even if you can find rounded rocks about the same size of eggs and leave them in the nest whilst taking out the real ones.
Worst case scenario is culling the culprit. Not nice but unfortunately sometimes necessary.
Best of luck to you. HAGD

 

[subhanalah]

Just wondering subhanalah, what's your reasoning behind not liking/wanting to use yogurt often? Tia, Carrie

because it's dairy and that's my preference.
I believe they get plenty of probiotic from the fermented feed. They have calcium as much as they want and range in the yard all day long scratching and chasing bugs.
I can't think of a reason to actually want to feed them yogurt.

 

[Irishhenman]

I can't think of a reason to actually want to feed them yogurt.

What if you don't feed fermented feed or if one of them has sour crop

 

[subhanalah]

What if you don't feed fermented feed or if one of them has sour crop

For sour crop, I believe the treatment is fasting food and only providing water and grit for 24 hours to see if that clears the crop.
If they have sour crop, it means the crop is too acidic, adding yogurt, I'm not sure if that would help or hurt.

 

[Irishhenman]

For sour crop, I believe the treatment is fasting food and only providing water and grit for 24 hours to see if that clears the crop.
If they have sour crop, it means the crop is too acidic, adding yogurt, I'm not sure if that would help or hurt.

Sour crop is not from the crop being too acidic, sour crop is an infection of Candida albicans, more commonly known as thrush

 

[subhanalah]

Sour crop is not from the cork being too acidic, sour crop is an infection of Candida albicans, more commonly known as thrush

not always.

 

[Flockcaptain]

What I did was drill a golfball in the nesting box and they stopped pecking their eggs.

 

[OldMountainCur]

Many may disagree,......... but way back when or a few weeks ago egg eating was/is caused by a deficiency, usually calcium. Oyster shell usually works, don't put it on the ground, but in a trough for easy access. I have several types of hens and at one time or another one or more of them will eat an egg, usually out of another nest. 9 "black rocks" two will eat other hens eggs, I've never seen them eat thier own. 12 cherry eggers ----- cannibals one and all. 5 Buff Orpingtons..... cannibals they WILL eat other chickens smaller than themselves. None show any tendency to eat eggs or each other when a good supply of grit and oyster shell is available. Oddly when I allow these hens to free range they will eat eggs when they are confined the tendency is averted with the supplement. Should be the other way around. Over crowding has been one cause of cannibalism and egg eating.......mine aren't crowded. So if you can figure out the "real" cause let us know.