Suspect I have a chicken eating eggs

[Kerilou]

I am so glad I found this post. I found the remains of two different eggs in my coop this morning..I am so upset! I am just getting started at this chicken thing, and now another issue!!
Do you think that Easter eggs would work for fake eggs, if I glued them together first? Or are they too light? Ping Pong balls are light too, though...I used to have marble eggs as an Easter decoration but do you think I can find them? NO!
I am happy to read all the above posted solutions, just need to work my way through the list...

 

[gryeyes]

Fill the plastic Easter eggs with sand, then glue them together. That's what I'm gonna do. I picked up a 12-pack of 'em for 79 cents and I have plenty of sand.

 

[Kerilou]

I was thinking about adding sand..great minds think alike!! Oh, I hope this works!! I can't seem to get through a day without some kind of chicken stress!

Keri

 

[Kerilou]

Well, I filled some plastic eggs and glued them shut. Added them to the coop and lined some of the nesting boxes with hay instead of pine shavings, so we will see what happens next!

Keri

 

[Kerilou]

11 eggs from 11 hens yesterday, no breaks!!

 

[4girls5hens]

I just got some "foster" hens that are two years old and one of them is eating eggs, and another one (or the same, im not sure) has all butt fluff gone! I put some fake eggs in there so we'll see what happens. The move only delayed laying for 3 of them for a couple of days and they are all back to laying again.

My question is, will the hens still go in the nest box with a curtain over it?

 

[big mami]

How nice to have found this thread! We have had egg eating problems for a couple of days now, and it may be related to one hen's thin-shelled eggs. I have put out oyster shells but they don't seem to eat it. Another hen had gotten broody also, so removing her might help things (I think the thin-shelled egglayer was forced to lay outside the box). Glad to see all the ideas and advice from others, and I'm optimistic things will turn around. Will try more protein too. What is grit? Does sand count as grit?

 

[chicken boy sam]

Mine have been doing this on and off for the past month. But today, 2 eggs were broken!!! We have some clam shell in there (ground up), should it be oyster shell instead? What's the difference?

 

[Kerilou]

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I didn't know about clam shell..was it bought in a bag at the feed store, or is it something you did yourself out of shells? I have oyster shell from the feed store. I don't put it out for them to eat, I mix it in with their layer mash and they eat it and don't even know it. I do sprinkle some outside on the ground in their run for them to peck at, too. My uncle told me this week that if they are destroying their own eggs, to offer them some raw liver. They will eat that, and stop bothering the eggs....never heard of that before!

Keri

 

[chicken boy sam]

My dad crushed it up himself. We have a whole bunch of sand outside for their grit. I think it might be my bantam buff cochin bird. I think I'll try buying the oyster shell from the feed store and try the easter egg trick.