egg eating by color

[Zulu Mama]

Hey, folks. Live in southern Michigan, USA. Flock of 22 mixed breed hens. They picked up laying again a month ago. Normal. About the last to start was my 3 brown leghorns. Then we had some very cold weather and I closed them up in the coop for a few days. 14'x8' coop. Food, water, couple of flock blocks and free feed whole corn available. Since the few days lock down ended, I have not gotten a single white egg from the leghorns. They are my only white egg layers. I had been getting two white eggs a day. I have been getting 10 brown eggs daily though.
My question is has anyone ever had just one color egg get eaten by their chickens? There hasn't been any place to lay eggs outside, really. And the leghorns seem to like hanging out in the coop most of the day, anyways. It's just odd they started and stopped.

 

[rosemarythyme]

If you have eggs being eaten you'd likely see evidence of it - broken shells, wet spots in the nest, etc.

Quite possibly they stopped due to the sudden worsening in temperature and in reaction to being locked in. We just got the first snow of the season this week and my only hen that came back into lay has stopped as well.

 

[nuthatched]

What makes ypu think theyre egg eating?
Do they get any real feed? What protein is it? Stop the flock blocks and corn, those are simply junk food that's unnecessary.

 

[Zulu Mama]

If you have eggs being eaten you'd likely see evidence of it - broken shells, wet spots in the nest, etc.

Quite possibly they stopped due to the sudden worsening in temperature and in reaction to being locked in. We just got the first snow of the season this week and my only hen that came back into lay has stopped as well.

When they were locked up, I did see an australorp with yolk on her head.I've only had egg eating hens when eggs probably break in the box, not on the regular. I probably am over thinking this. The leghorns are nervous hens and tend to get harassed by some others. Thanks for the reply

 

[Zulu Mama]

What makes ypu think theyre egg eating?
Do they get any real feed? What protein is it? Stop the flock blocks and corn, those are simply junk food that's unnecessary.

Mainly that they all three were laying and stopped. I rarely see signs that an egg has been broken in the nesting boxes. And I'm not seeing signs of opossums, IE tracks in the snow. They get 17% Kalmbach layer crumbles plus every 100 pounds of layer, I mix in 50 pounds of 18% unmedicated chick feed to boost protein, whatever kitchen scraps I have, decent quality scratch and a couple handfuls of dried meal worms. I use flock blocks over winter only. Gives them something to peck at besides each other. Started with the blocks about 15 years ago. I was having problems with them really damaging each other. That's not an issue any more. Whole corn because it gets down into the single digits on the regular here January and February. They get a good diet. The FBs usually don't even usually get finished over winter.

 

[Zulu Mama]

I feel I jumped the gun with this question. I got a couple white eggs from the leghorns yesterday. All the other hens lay brown eggs, so I have no idea if one or a couple take a break as there's others laying similar colors. Thanks for the input, folks.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I know I'm late to the party but I just want to say I once saw a hen gulp down an entire half shell in the blink of an eye. So don't think you have no egg-eaters just bc you find no broken shells. They will clean up pretty good. But you may find evidence of a broken egg as a wet spot in the bedding or as egg slime on another egg.

 

[Zulu Mama]

I know I'm late to the party but I just want to say I once saw a hen gulp down an entire half shell in the blink of an eye. So don't think you have no egg-eaters just bc you find no broken shells. They will clean up pretty good. But you may find evidence of a broken egg as a wet spot in the bedding or as egg slime on another

I have been getting eggs pretty regular, but not what I thought I should be getting. Last week, my dog nailed an opossum in the coop. It won't be doing that anymore. They usually don't leave a mess when eating eggs like chickens do. I went from 6-8 eggs daily to 18-19 a day.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Naughty opossum! Good dog!

 

[Zulu Mama]

Naughty opossum! Good dog!

He's a very good dog. 5 years ago, I had two fox get into the pen and kill 5chickens. I heard the ruckus & ran down with the dog. Dog cornered one, fought with it & got bit. That one got away, I got the other. Week later, my good dog caught another fox in the woods and killed it. This dog is my reformed chicken killer that I spent one summer and fall desensitizing, training. He's now the sheriff of the chickens area.