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  1. E

    Hen eating broody hens nest when she gets up to eat/drink

    Hello! We have a broody hen that is sitting on some eggs (all good there!), but when she gets up to eat/drink once a day another hen races in and eats as many eggs as she can before the broody one gets back. We keep replacing the eggs for our broody girl, but at this point it’s getting...
  2. talkinboutchickens

    We've got an egg-eater on our hands...😤

    Hello everyone. We've got some egg-eater(s) now 😡 This has been going on since maybe December? Or November? Or earlier?Honestly it has probably been going on for even longer than that, since I've seen broken eggs in the summer, but we just suspected that our chicken's big bodies were smashing...
  3. KimbosKluckers

    Coop cam

    Trying a camera to see who the egg eater is, still don’t know as I believe they know they’re being watched 👁️ 😂 This morning 2 gals shared a box to lay ❤️
  4. M

    Scary egg-eater has called my bluff

    Hi all, One of my RIRs is an inveterate egg eater, and I’m starting to lose a lot of eggs to her, so on Sunday I tried the dish-soap-in-an-eggshell trick. The eggshell is GONE, there is no sign of it or the soap anywhere in the coop, I can’t smell dish soap anywhere, and all of the chickens...
  5. sapphiresilkie7

    Egg eater problem from silkies

    So I discovered I have a problem, which is new. Last week I was getting eggs and this week it’s only one a day in the coop. I have four hens (silkies). I was watching my camera and saw one chicken lay an egg in the middle of the run and THREE HENS all went for it and ate it. Is there anyway...
  6. TaylorGlade

    Suddenly laying in run

    Our gal, Sweetie, just had her debut in the egg-laying world this week. She surprised us by using the egg box for her first two eggs like a pro. However, today, we stumbled upon her third egg, but it was in the run and in a sorry state - cracked open and devoured completely. The eggshell was...
  7. lexi234

    EGG EATING ENTIRE FLOCK!!!!

    I am having this issue now although I really need help as it's been months. I've been in and out of hospice, and over that time my mom handled my chickens and they developed this. I am trying everything, even filling fake eggs with mustard. It is my entire flock and they camp out in the coop...
  8. Olive_Egger

    Is My Hen Eating Eggs?

    My light brahma hen has always been kind of strange- she sometimes lays her eggs in random places. We think she might do this because another hen has taken her nesting box. Well, today we found her egg right outside the coop. She had egg yolk and egg shell on her face and beak. We found the...
  9. A

    How to keep ducks out of chicken nests

    I recently added a few ducks to my flock. And over the last week one of the ducks has decided they like to eat chicken eggs. I’m building a better egg box set up and want to have one nest for ducks and for more for chickens but I’d like the ducks to not be able to access the chicken boxes. My...
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  11. cluckmecoop7

    Egg Eaters!!! NEED HELP asap

    I'm afraid I have egg eater(s). Today me and one of my family members went out to feed my chickens and get eggs. I let my family member get the eggs because she enjoys doing it and when she pulled out the second egg she turned to me and said "Is this fine?". What I saw surprised me greatly (as I...
  12. KaseySnow

    Is this sign of a hen eating eggs?

    Hey all! The local history park coop I help out with has had a suspicious problem with eggs suddenly being broken open and all the inside goop being gone/splashed everywhere in the nesting boxes. I picked up this egg the other day and saw what looked like the beginnings of some henpecking. Is...
  13. ChickChic00

    Hen Egg Eater

    So I have a rir rooster and a isa brown hen and australorp hen in a pen together, and apparently the isa brown has been destroying the australorps eggs, but not her own. I don't think she is really eating them. I think she is just breaking them open. I didn't know if she just doesnt want the...
  14. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Bullying, Egg-Eating, and Depression?

    Poor Darla our EE is having a rough go of it. She's a new layer, can't figure out how to use the boxes, is getting her eggs eaten, and now is the target of bullying. She's also seemed to have gotten depressed, or worse, is under the weather. Original thread is here...
  15. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Help! Chickens Eating Eggs!

    4 out of 7 of our pullets have started laying. 3 of the 4 have learned to use the nesting boxes, no problem. They each lay brown eggs, which are always left in the nesting boxes, untouched. The 4th pullet, our EE "Darla," seems confused about laying in the boxes and leaves her white eggs in the...
  16. sylvan mountain ranch

    How do I stop my egg eater??

    Just found a couple broken eggs in the last week and caught my australorp eating an egg this morning!! Grabbed her and scolded her (haha) and tossed her out of the coop (gently) I have never had this happen before but I heard its hard to stop..... Backstory on this week: My ducks hatched their...
  17. Ginmary

    Egg massacre

    we were away for 2 days. When we got back we found broken eggs on the floor and the hens eating them. These were unfertile eggs from the buff and ameracauna. from wherever they laid them. Then we went to check the 2 Seramas that were sitting on 8 eggs. They were about a week and a half from...
  18. HappyFeetHens

    Hen Eating Other Eggs But Not Her Own?

    One of my hens is laying pretty consistently through this crazy bout of weather. Yesterday, I found another egg from her (can tell by the color; she’s a leghorn and my others are RIRs) and then I found two broken egg shells in the other next box. They were completely crushed but not much liquid...
  19. wa2qcj

    Dominque likes eggs

    I have 3 Dominique, and I caught one of them in a nesting box with egg on her beak. She left that box, and went to one next to it. I saw the broken egg, and caught her before she could do anything in the other box. Generally, when they leave a box, they don't go to another one, unless looking to...
  20. lena_

    Help! Hen Pecked Open Egg On Hatch Day!

    I have a broody hen named Misty who is sitting on a clutch of 14 eggs, all due to hatch over the rest of this week. I thought I had secured her in a cage in the coop, but no. Some other hen got into her cage and pecked a hole in one of the chicks aircells. The chick is still alive(visible...
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