No eggs this week.
Worse, I think we have some egg eaters in my flock of chickens!
I had an issue with this that I thought we had stopped. But I've seen a couple of chickens looking around the empty nests when I've gone to collect. I've got two that are broody (and low on the totem pole) and I've seen the higher-ranking birds (that I suspect as the culprits) trying to push them out of the way see what they are sitting on (actually golf balls!).
Should I just hold out an egg and see who goes for it? Suggestions? I hate to slaughter too many but I can't have this egg-eating.
It also has gotten real hot over the last couple of days.....is it possible that they just stopped laying?
Worse, I think we have some egg eaters in my flock of chickens!
I had an issue with this that I thought we had stopped. But I've seen a couple of chickens looking around the empty nests when I've gone to collect. I've got two that are broody (and low on the totem pole) and I've seen the higher-ranking birds (that I suspect as the culprits) trying to push them out of the way see what they are sitting on (actually golf balls!).
Should I just hold out an egg and see who goes for it? Suggestions? I hate to slaughter too many but I can't have this egg-eating.
It also has gotten real hot over the last couple of days.....is it possible that they just stopped laying?