What in the world is eating my eggs during the day

[hensonly]

One or both of my roosters was eating eggs until I got nest boxes put up that are too small for the roos to get into, the perch is too close to the nest box for them to stand on, and the boxes are too high for them to reach over the perch and into the box. Now they stalk around in front of the next boxes and look at the eggs but I have not lost a single egg to my birds since. Except an occasional thin-shelled egg that the hens eat when it breaks as it's laid. Thankfully none of the hens has gone after a whole egg...

 

[bigstack]

My granny used to use the solid glass or ceramic eggs to stop egg eaters! She would collect eggs and leave the fake egg in the nest box. Moving it around daily so they wouldn't get wise. In a few days they learn ( or think) the eggs are too hard to eat and leave them alone.

Good Luck and God Bless!

 

[ty_09]

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we did that. put some eggs inside a skunk trap. the eggs were gone but didnt catch anything. my guess is, its rats.

 

[dutchhollow]

Snake, spread some moth balls around and under the coop

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Could be a snake

We have a winner!​

 

[bigstack]

Shouldn't snakes be hibernating? comming out soon but not yet. Unless it lives in the coop. YIKES!!! or your in southern Ca, maybe.

 

[speckledhen]

Someone just caught a neighbor stealing his eggs on camera (found out he was selling them at work!).

 

[Dogfish]

Trail camera. $99 at Cabelas

 

[rufus]

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If it an egg thief, they will take the camera too.

I spent most of the morning in the backyard, and so far we have five eggs. Leave an old aluminum pan or something made of copper out in the yard. If it is gone, you know you have a bum in the neighborhood.

Otherwise, it is an egg eater. Put fake eggs or old door knobs, golf balls or old dead light bulbs in the nest. When they get tired of pecking on all of that junk, they will give it up.

Rufus

 

[Dogfish]

I have a number of trail cams placed high up in trees, 12-15 feet.

You can paint them to match your house, etc. Be sneaky.