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I have tried every single tip and all my chickens still devour the eggs as soon as they lay them. How to I tell what chickens are eating eggs? I have chickens eating eggs I got 22 eggs today and like 37 eggs yesterday.
Your email address will not be published. Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment. Add to Favorites Reading Time: 3 minutes Most of us who are in the business of raising backyard poultry are doing it for the eggs. Did it confuse the chickens at all? Did they have any trouble finding the nests? My hens egg laying just dropped significantly and keeps reducing each and everyday.
I used plastic Easter eggs to confuse my girls. It worked! Thanks so much for the news how to prevent and control them. Mine are also eating eggs,they have frustrated me ,can I burn their mouth or what? To comply with COVID social distancing guidelines, the opportunity will be extended virtually this year.
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Poultry producers across the Southeast have plenty of experience cleaning up after storm damage to broiler and breeder houses, but they now have new guidelines for hurricane preparedness and recovery. Causes for hens eating their eggs. If shells of the eggs are thin and weak, provide proper diets as discussed in the nutrition section to correct the problem.
Not enough nest space is provided. Provide at least one standard nest for each four hens. Keep plenty of soft nesting material in the nest so eggs will have a cushion on which to lay. I put in fake eggs, they got the real ones. I had 1 or 2 chickens that were eating eggs. I have not an egg eaten since. It worked! I appreciated seeing a picture of those curtains so I put some shades up last night. The flock spent their entire morning staring at them!
Then our present laying hen courageously entered through the veil and laid her egg by afternoon. Fingers crossed for another successful egg laying day tomorrow. Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful suggestions. We find yolk in the next box occasionally.
This morning I caught one of our hens running around with egg shell in her mouth! Otherwise our 8 girls do fine. Good article. Egg eating amongst hens is a common and indeed big problem for Farmers.
At least we now know how to minimize the vice. Our girls have been laying for several months. I just went out to check for eggs and 1 was actually on the ground a ways from the coop and had been eaten. Did something get in there and take an egg, did one of the girls lay an egg outside of the coop?
They have not eaten their eggs before. We keep the area clean, fresh water almost daily. The most probable is the two you mentioned. She laid and it may have cracked and tempted her to eat or it got stolen and devoured. I have had the same concern several times, a way to determine this is keep them in the coop for the day and see if they lay normal and there is no mess in the nest.
If so, you can conclude fairly certainly its a predator. If there is a mess, they are getting their own eggs, take proper measures written out in the article.
Mustard eggs!! Are eggs safe to eat if your chickens have been eating some of their own eggs? Should we throw them out? They are safe to eat and they most certainly got the necessary vitamins they need, including calcium from the shell. My chickens are about three years old. Extremely friendly. They have a high protein diet which is their normal feed along with the fact that we get them crickets and worms from when my husband goes fishing.
They also get a variety of fruits and vegetables and greens every day. They roam on 1 acre. Which they all get along very well. They all like to sleep around each other. But as soon as she walks and lays she turns around along with the other two chickens and they just start eating it. Not sure what I should do. There are six water buckets scattered throughout our yatd as well as a little pool.
Their coop Is shaded. Nearby their own herb garden. Here is a functional one. I have this problem as well. It started when an egg or two got crushed a few months ago. Right now I try to get to the coop often, but sometimes I cannot do that.
I will try the mustard trick — I already have a ceramic egg with them, but am also adding two more. I have no idea which hens are eating my eggs. Born on site back in July. I have 3 hens. One has never laid.
The layer of big eggs stopped for a while then restarted, but the shell is fragile. The non-laying hen sits beside her and gets the egg as soon as it is laid.
They seem to tolerate mustard so now I am trying to remove the egg immediately and replace with a rubber one. My first of 5 layers layed an egg right in front of me, while I was sitting in the rocker, turned around and broke it, taking the shell with her while the other 4 ate it all up!
She ate the shell and stood 2 feet away from the others, with her back turned. What the hell is happening?! Hi there!
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