How to stop Egg eating Chicken???

lockhaven · Jul 22, 2014

maybe inject an egg with a powerful laxative, then watch for which one squirts

TomSeller · Jul 22, 2014

Game cam on the nests? Feed the chickens old ground up egg shells to harden their eggs?

J35 · Jul 22, 2014

The culprit or culprits will have dried egg on their beak's look closely up around the nostrils.

Make sure you have plenty of nesting space and that the nests are well strawed.

A egg getting broke usually is what starts it.

Gather eggs often.

Best remedy I have found is boiled eggs for a week as their only feed, mash them good, shells and all, along with free range.

If that don't work it's time for chicken and dumplings.

-----J

Egon · Jul 23, 2014

Curious, when the egg eats the chicken where does the next egg come from?

zing · Jul 23, 2014

Egon said:
Curious, when the egg eats the chicken where does the next egg come from?

Across the road.

massdogman · Jul 23, 2014

feed them some chiped oster shells from farm and garden you will get results.

Jstpssng · Jul 23, 2014

massdogman said:
feed them some chiped oster shells from farm and garden you will get results.

That does make the shells harder. :thumbsup:
I broke one chicken of the habit by using a golf ball in the nest; I brought her home from somebody who used to mix the broken eggs into their feed in lieu of oyster shells. It was my best layer and gave an egg at 5:20 every morning... After she and her sisters got used to the coop I started letting them free-range, which I believe helps.
That didn't work with my latest egg eater though. She would use it like a soccer ball and no matter what I tried she wouldn't stop. I hated to do it; she was the only hen which laid all winter, before I started running lights. March was a good time of year for chicken noodle soup though.

SPIKER · Jul 23, 2014

One way is to separate half the chickens (if you can have extra chicken tractor) and keep moving half and half until the individual is most apparent & easier to inspect each of half of them than all of them.

Mark

lockhaven · Jul 23, 2014

hire a chicken analyst and get to the root of the problem. the poor bird probably had a traumatic experience while escaping the egg the first time and has been suffering with demons ever since. Have some compassion