Does this mean the end??? They ate a duck egg this AM. Duck-Duck lives with the chickens and lays an egg everyday. She sits in the nest box but the egg usually lands outside the box on the coop floor since she is bigger than the nest box. They ate it....!!!!! I immediately put ceramic eggs in all the nests. Harriette is out there laying now. They all 4 lay in the same nest box. They have lots of options but they all 4 use it (includes Duck). Have they crossed over into the netherlands of 'eggeaters' now?? What else can I do to stop this before it develops????
(I will add that I have 2 juvenile birds spending day 2 with the older birds in the coop and run. So there is aggression going on. Maybe they took that aggression out on the egg. But the same aggression is going to be going on tomorrow and the next day too... I did separate out Hateful Helen who was out to kill the 2 young ones. The other 2 chickens and duck do chase and peck at the new birds but these girls are going to have to learn to live together.)
(I will add that I have 2 juvenile birds spending day 2 with the older birds in the coop and run. So there is aggression going on. Maybe they took that aggression out on the egg. But the same aggression is going to be going on tomorrow and the next day too... I did separate out Hateful Helen who was out to kill the 2 young ones. The other 2 chickens and duck do chase and peck at the new birds but these girls are going to have to learn to live together.)