No eggs this week!

[savingdogs]

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?

 

[CoopCrazy]

mine slow down majorly in the heat...

 

[ALRwild]

Yeah, it is true that they will stop laying when it gets really hot. You could just put an egg on the ground, and see who goes after it. You could also put a camera in you coop, so you could catch the egg eaters ( if there are any) in action!!!!!

 

[LynneP]

True, and are any in molt? Mine are finishing one, and egg production is down.

 

[savingdogs]

No, not molting. My husband and I were just saying we need a coop-cam!

 

[briteday]

You might go looking for a hidden nest in cooler places. I just found 10 eggs yesterday in a corner behind the feed can. I thought the big hens were not laying for the last two days since I had moved the teenagers in with them. Nope...just hiding the eggs in a cooler spot.