North Carolina

[vfem]

I did dumby eggs too, and I collected OFTEN to make sure no broke any and where they were broken if they were. After a couple of weeks all was back to normal. Pecking and trying to break the dumby eggs diverted who ever was trying to destroy and eat what was there.

 

[Greenskeeper]

Sadly all this started when I was working, collecting often was what I did before! Back to the starting line for me... I did manage to sneak an automatic door opener, the muffled crow of a cooped rooster was disturbing my sleep! He crows less out side. Time to go play with my rooster club! Got plenty if anyone needs one!

 

[laughingdog]

you could try a mustard egg.. never tried it myself, but you fill the blown out shells with mustard, ans supposedly the hens hate it. never tried feeding my hens anything with mustard, so no idea if they might even like it or be put off. or the mustard thing maybe at least shows whoes eating them. either way!

P.S. forgot to mention that it was the new rooster i found who was actually the main culprit of the egg eating, so might have been that i just seperated him, and the hens just instinctively started to try to take care of, without him breaking them and then the hens just joining in feast (i caught him and them, but assumed it could have been coincidence, as he just could have been curious, but the egg eating started back up at his home when he went home and stopped here around same time i think, and have kept those two hens now from a trade).

good luck, i know how frustrating it is!

 

[Greenskeeper]

I have a pretty good idea, who it is. She looks like she's pacing the ramp for her next meal.... Here's my next question, I find an egg about every other week outside usually, but the egg looks like it was sprayed with watered down white paint...they never find these to eat???

 

[BookWorm243]

Mama_Hen, what breeds do you have?

BHep, Hoping all your peafowl eggs hatch

Greenskeeper, I hope you can get your hen to stop eating those eggs.

So we re-homed both of our rabbits today

I will really miss Harvey our Angora. We got some guinea keets the other day. . . . . and maybe one or two chicks

Okay so it was four but they where so cute

My mom got two Buff Orpingtons and I got two EE's. We are only up to 8 pullets and 5 guineas, so it's not that bad

We also found a home for our foster doggie, a nice couple in Hickory are going to be adopting her, which we are happy about. Well off to go clean up after chicks

Hope everyone is having a good day.

 

[laughingdog]

is your suspected egg eater low or high in the flock? as especially if this one type of egg in one spot isnt eaten could be hers, she is laying away, and others are attacking her in nest box when she tries to claim, lay, and announce her egg made pride (had a hen who was low on pecking order before got the two new hens, who was hiding nest and eggs out of the way, and started stealing eggs apparently to fill it, damaging some seeming by accident). ive heard of hens kicking out and destroying the eggs of others to make nest in that spot, but eating could be secondary or even by other hens to then. try separating her to a cage with a nest, see it it continues, and then just open the door to see after found out, to see if she accepts that nest, and then can just put it were you want (also do the dummy egg at first for her to see if will help show to lay their, then she will always have an egg, maybe slightly broody, but as long as has the one egg but others taken she will keep trying to fill up that clutch). also never let your hens actually see you taking out real eggs or replacing/ putting in dummy eggs, as many probaly will have no trouble, but found with brilliant game hens, they watch everything you do, and dont like to the degree they get wary of certain things, thus the egg hiding (how i ended up with five clutches of eggs hidden and then hatching and only finding the two after moved something and found mamma had been hiding them for days from me when i went out, though happy the couple brief chirps i heard muffled werent just in my head).

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Talk about hiding eggs, my Muscovy girls are the best at it, I go out everyday and use a pitch fork to turn all the bedding, well it never fails they will have hidden eggs and I never see them till the next day when one of them is sitting on them, I don't know how they do it.

I have found them when I bring up the p fork and one is stuck on it, but that doesn't happen often.

 

[NewHomesteader2010]

Good afternoon/evening everyone. I have a rather unusual question and I hope you all don't mind me asking, but...do any of you remember where to find the post about normal looking poo?? I just noticed that one (or more??) of my boys/girls is having a very different color/texture of poo than I am use to, and I just want to make sure nothing is wrong. Is there a reason for the poo to change? I know it's been HOT & humid, but they have plenty of ventilation, water, food and shade, so I am a bit worried/confused. I hope I don't gross anyone out, but I did take a photo of it so my seasoned helpers might offer up some suggestions. <WARNING POO PHOTO COMING BELOW>

Am I worrying for nothing??

every time I look at it I think I the brown looks more bloody than brown and I know blood = something bad!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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[laughingdog]

id say at least treat water with fourth vinegar, to help clean out system and kill it from spreading to rest, as seem like coccidioses, but only slight sweet smell could tell for sure, as could be others, just the most obvious seeming and common seeming and to treat first. maybe keep them up on grate to minimalize the risk of spreading till you get it under control, and can treat ever were they were, and probably wild birds intermingle (unless you recently added any new birds).