Red Golden Egg Eaters

[EMantooth]

This year I am having a problem with my red golden male and female destroying their eggs. The hen is VERY inconsistent about where she lays, and I'm not sure if its her or the male or both that are going after the eggs. On days I expect her to lay, I'm trying to check every 15 min or so, and I'm often still too late to save the egg so they are going after it immediately after it is laid. They are on flock raiser feed (20% protein) with supplemental fruits and veggies, and black oil sunflower seeds and peanuts.
Suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[brahmabantam]

i have put fake eggs under my cannibal hens and gulf balls to deter this habit.
also you can move the chicken (in which you now which chicken is eating the egg) away from that coop, so that the
egg eating doesn't spread.
(matters how may chickens you have)
hope that helped

 

[pheasantfrenzie]

You can always clip their beaks that always help with them not cracking it. Also try adding a full head of lettuce to keep them busy. Are you giving them any oyster shells? You can also try boxes that when the hen layes them the eggs roll back into the box where they can't get to it.
How old are your birds. If they are young maybe next year they won't eat their eggs and just leave them.

 

[EMantooth]

The pair are 3 this spring/summer and did not do this last year. The hen started off normally this season, but then things have gone downhill. Sometimes she lays in the run area, sometimes in the enclosed coop area, and sometimes on the roof of the enclosed coop. Last year all eggs were in the enclosed area. Yesterday I put a dummy egg back in the enclosure to hopefully remind her where eggs are supposed to go, but it didn't help today.

And of course this is the year that someone wants to buy eggs from me!

 

[dc3085]

Simplest way to solve to the problem is to build something like this. If she doesnt want to lay in it, make it the only inviting place in the cage to make a nest and that should do it.