Once and egg eater always an egg eater?????

[Chirpy]

I had an egg eater also. Sometimes they can be broken by using the above techniques. I had great success by blowing out the yolk and putting a hot sauce inside. Put that egg back into the nestbox and wait. I found that egg broken open with the hot sauce spilled out... never had another egg eaten since then. I only had the one hen eating eggs though so that helped.

Sometimes they cannot be stopped and you have to cull them; or take a chance on other hens learning that behavior from them - that's a bummer because you start to lose most of your eggs.

 

[Chirpy]

colby318 wrote:

We ended up having to make rollaway nest boxes with lexan tubs. We cut 4" of the lids and snapped them on the downhill side of the slope. We put a piece of scrap wood under the back of the tub to make the slope. We lined the tubs with leftover berber carpet blocks for them to sit on. I can see the eggs in the front of the clear tub but the girls can't reach them.

I'd love to see pictures of this set up - just for future reference.​

 

[pamperedpoultry]

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Thats pretty neat!! I've moved her into another lot, she was in a small pen with the rooster and another hen. I'm goin to see if the other hen is doing it too, If I get no eggs I'll know. If I dont find any eggs in the lot she's in now I'll know she's still at it also. I've got a extra jap rooster I may turn her and him out at our barn if she doesn't straighten out.. Dont want to sell her, dont want her to be anyone elses problem.

 

[SeramaLife]

My serama rooster used to egg eat. He hasn't done it since he tried to eat an egg that was 10 days into incubation.