missing eggs

We have five hens and a rooster. We very rarely ever collect five eggs in one day. Mostly we get two, three, or four eggs. We usually let the chickens out of the coop for a couple hours before sunset. They return to roost every evening. A couple months ago, I marked three eggs and left them in...

Crows have been entering my chicken coop and stealing eggs. For the past couple of days I noticed my eggs were missing I thought my chickens weren’t producing. Does this at all effect egg production (stressing the chickens) and how can I prevent crows from entering my coop without blocking an...

Hi! I'm a first-time poster and first-time chicken owner :). I have a flock of 4, all 13 months old. They all started laying around 6 months and 3/4 have consistently been laying an egg a day since. But my easter egger stopped laying in September (~5 months ago, when she was about 8 months old)...

This is day 4 of broody duck Tater Tot and maybe broody duck Feather Locklear. I went to go mark her eggs this morning bc she has not been off of her nest only to find NO eggs!! There were 5 or 6 eggs that I could see on day 1 & 2, I'm sure she had more buried. I am baffled. I feel bad bc I did...

I had 15 hens a 3 roosters. I’ve not lost a chicken out of this flock until this week. We let them free range all day and in the evening they coop themselves up, we count and feed them and lock them in. We have a nice coop on concrete flooring and a solid wood structure and it’s big with...

Hi, I have an Indian Runner that just Sexually matured enough to lay her first three eggs. The problem is that she hasn't layed any eggs since. it's been a week since, and we've searched our entire yard and haven't found one egg. We do have a matured drake also, if that changes anything. This is...

My chickens have begun to eat the eggs. I feed them well, always keeping their feeder full and the waterer plentiful. Additionally I have a friend who works at a bakery and gives me day-old bread. Each day they start the day with plenty of bread or table scraps, veggie cuttings, and even cooked...

My girls just started laying eggs again! But... I don’t know where! I checked again after a week and found 8 in the coop. The thing is, they saw me take them and I haven’t found any since! How do I get them to lay in the nest boxes! Ps. I live in LA and it SNOWED today!

So yesterday I received 2 lovely but small quails eggs for the first time! So far today, I still haven't received any. Is it normal for Japanese quails to miss a day after their first egg? If so, is it just one day or can it last a while? Thanks :)

Hi! I have 4 chickens...less than a week so new to everything. They are all ok. Only my Cheshire blue is laying (not a problem). She lays every other day on the floor of their coop. So to encourage use of their nesting box I put said egg inside. I came back 4 hours later and the egg has gone! No...

Have you ever had egg eaters that eat the ENTIRE egg leaving no shells? We have quite a few chickens so it's harder for me to monitor.. especially because they all lay at different times of the day. The only evidence I might see is just egg white goo mixed in with shavings.. BUT, this could be...

I'm new to raising chickens and we started with baby chicks this spring. A month ago we go our first egg and were so excited. We had a little bit of variety in the ages of our chicks. Our buff orpington is the oldest & pretty sure she was our first layer but she's been so intermittent. Then...

while our hen was laying her eggs, some chickens laid eggs on her nest. So she was sitting on 9 turkey eggs and 4 chicken eggs. All 4 chicken eggs hatched and she moved the chicks to a new nest. Her original nest is now empty, no turkeys eggs anywhere. Does anyone know what she would have done...

So one of our ducks, Mama, went broody about a week ago for the second time. She's an Ancona and was a great mother to her first clutch she hatched a few months ago. This time, she was sitting on 8 eggs. A couple days ago, I noticed there was only 7 eggs in the nest. And then today, there was...