My chickens started eating their eggs. How do I make them stop?

[ILoveDaffy]

How do you make them stop this? Has this happened to you?

 

[CluckerFamily]

I collect my eggs more often. This works for me.
Some people install a roll-away nesting box.
Some people cull the egg eaters.

 

[mamajos]

Along with collecting eggs more often, placing some ceramic eggs in the nest box and leave them there. The chickens will try to eat them and won’t be able to, so they learn to leave them alone. This worked for me.

 

[mowin]

Could be as simple as type of feed.
What are you feeding them? Do you have oyster shell available to them? I've got a couple that eat there eggs, I'm in the process of making roll away nest boxes.

 

[ILoveDaffy]

Could be as simple as type of feed.
What are you feeding them? Do you have oyster shell available to them? I've got a couple that eat there eggs, I'm in the process of making roll away nest boxes.

We feed them layer feed, and give crushed store eggshell to them. The eggsare a different color too.

 

[Casa de Pollo]

Love my roll away nest boxes. Might be worth a try. I built them after watching a few videos, was pretty easy.

 

[linguini]

When our young pullets started laying in Dec, I was amused by one of the first eggs that was pecked. Wasn't on high alert until I witnessed our Turken rushed out of the coop with something bright yellow in her beak while chased by everyone else. She gobbled the whole thing down in seconds. I was horrified thinking that our entire flock are now into egg eating!

Here are the steps we took:
- added calcium powder and ground egg shell to their feeds to strengthen the shells (but I was advised by the BYC forum members not to do that, I later added Oyster Shell on the side instead)
- placed multiple ceramic eggs, both tan and blue, in each nesting boxes
- filled an egg shell with mustard - they ate the whole thing regardless, so that didn't work
-installed a baby monitor with night vision camera aiming at the nesting boxes, watch them, and pick up the eggs as soon as they finished laying. Thanks to Covid/Work at home, we have the luxury to tend to this chore all day, and it's fun.

I'd say all of the approaches helped except for the mustard-filled egg.

(BTW, I also attempted to make a DIY roll away nesting tray, but the paint tray I purchased was a tad too big to fit into the current nesting boxes, so I gave up on that.)