That's one way to deal with egg eaters

[ladycat]

One pair of Wheaten Marans started eating their eggs. Naturally it was Wheatens, those are the ones I'm getting the most hatching egg orders for.

Further proof of Universe Vindictiveness is, this hen produces some of my darkest Wheaten Marans eggs.

There's a reason I keep around piles of lumber scraps and stuff like that. I put together an anti-egg eating cage out of what I had laying around, and it didn't take but a short while to put it together.



Side view shows how it slants from front to back. The whole lower half is covered with carpet scraps to protect the eggs from breaking.





The hen enters the "nest box" here.





And the egg rolls out here.




It's working very well.

 

[WooingWyandotte]

That. Is. Awesome.

 

[Jcbdc]

Wow, very good thinking!

 

[JennaV]

ummm, hmmmmm I've had chickens most of my life, free rangers in fact and some hens are egg eaters, caged or free once they taste them they usually wont stop.

 

[ladycat]

I've also had free rangers start eating eggs. It's a nasty habit.

 

[what did I do]

That looks like miniature golf.

 

[what did I do]

BTW, mine totally free range and I still end up with an occasional egg eater.

 

[ladycat]

That looks like miniature golf.

LOL

 

[B-Goock]

Mine started doing the egg eating too and I did the mustard egg. Nope they ate the mustard. So I filled some hollow eggs with creme colored hand soap and glued a piece of egg shell over the hole. If they broke a soap egg I left it so they all could "sample" how yummy the special eggs were.

After only a few soap eggs even if a real egg was broke they won't even touch it.

If the soap eggs didn't work my next step was something like what the op did.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

That looks like miniature golf.

x2

Great idea!