Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

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very cool info W4W, I have B12 and such here in the house. the B12 is a sublingual dot, so very meltable. i will get liquid children's tomorrow. it would be wonderful to be able to correct this. she's had it forever, might have waited too long to treat successfully... it's just noticeably worse in the last 2 days.
 
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FIVE......Today We Laid FIVE Eggs
 
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Did she break open the egg herself? Once a chicken starts eating eggs, it can be very hard to stop and turns into a very destructive habit. If you opened it and gave it to her that's fine, but if she's started eating eggs on her own, she should be discouraged. The best advice I've heard for this is to populate the nests with hard (solid) fake eggs. Then when she gives one a good hard peck it will hurt and may stop her. You need lots of fake ones to increase the chances that she'll attack one of those rather than a real one. I know folks who will cull an egg eater. The others will learn and pick up the habit. Egg count goes waaaay down.
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Wishing4Wings said:
WARNING: more unsolicited advice ahead.
Did she break open the egg herself? Once a chicken starts eating eggs, it can be very hard to stop and turns into a very destructive habit. If you opened it and gave it to her that's fine, but if she's started eating eggs on her own, she should be discouraged. The best advice I've heard for this is to populate the nests with hard (solid) fake eggs. Then when she gives one a good hard peck it will hurt and may stop her. You need lots of fake ones to increase the chances that she'll attack one of those rather than a real one.  I know folks who will cull an egg eater. The others will learn and pick up the habit. Egg count goes waaaay down.  :barnie
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I had. " ugly chicken " breaking eggs. I got golf ball and placed 3 in each nest box. Left them for about a month No more egg breaking. Yaaaaa
 
Wishing4Wings said:
WARNING: more unsolicited advice ahead.
Did she break open the egg herself? Once a chicken starts eating eggs, it can be very hard to stop and turns into a very destructive habit. If you opened it and gave it to her that's fine, but if she's started eating eggs on her own, she should be discouraged. The best advice I've heard for this is to populate the nests with hard (solid) fake eggs. Then when she gives one a good hard peck it will hurt and may stop her. You need lots of fake ones to increase the chances that she'll attack one of those rather than a real one. I know folks who will cull an egg eater. The others will learn and pick up the habit. Egg count goes waaaay down.
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I think it was a soft shell egg. I saw evidence of it when I was cleaning up after them. And since I know how spiteful the little B BR can be I blamed her. She sits on the roost in the run and cocks her head sideways while looking up at the unplugged bug zapper and says Brokkkkk......Brokkkkkkkk.
 
After our record high of 10 eggs yesterday, they slacked off and only laid 4 today. On a happy note, it was sunny and mid 60s today. Lovely. We took the girls worm hunting up in the garden and they had a feast! Lots of worms to eat and so neat to see how quickly they learn by watching each other. They learned to recognize worms when mostly buried, then they'd puuuulllll up a really long one and gobble it down. Looked like a cartoon! Most of the chard has been eaten and lots of the kale too. Wonder how much their crops can hold. Will they stop eating or pig-out to bursting?

We had a dog that let himself out of a kennel at the vets (after my mom warned them the dog could open anything and please put a clip on the latch. They didn't, of course, because no dog had ever opened one before....) Anyway, next morning, Rocky (Rhodesian Ridgeback/Bull Mastiff cross) was found lying half dead at the end of the kennel where the food was stored. He had ripped open a bag of kibble and helped himself to most of a 50 lb bag. (There might actually have been 2 bags involved... can't remember). Mom wasn't too happy when they tried to charge her for pumping the dog's stomach. Close call, but Rocky was around for quite a while after that little adventure.

I bet chickens, even with their bird brains, would know to stop eating!

I think a bug zapper in the chicken coop is a great idea! Might have to try it this summer.
 

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