The ginger menace...

[Llamas]

Somechicken has been eating eggs. I think the problem started after a friend overfed our hens on wormer and they laid soft eggs for a while. I started finding the tell tale slashed and broken egg shells in the run about once a week, but recently it's been every day, and it's no longer just the soft eggs (which have tapered off). OH insisted it was rats, but then he also once though that roosters were just hens that didn't lay eggs and made alot of noise.

It's soooo maddening coming out to another sticky, mess in the nest box, so I had a little expirement. I left an egg out in the open, thinking I'd sneak back inside and watch from the top window, but Ginger, the bossiest of the bunch, almost fell over herself the moment she saw the egg and ran right between my legs and attacked it. I'm fed up with this behavior and she's currently in the ark while I look up a good recipe. Any suggestions?

[sheena]

Mustard powder or paste, they hate the taste of it.

I had 2 that were demolishing their own eggs as well as any that were laid by my other girl's.

I managed to get a plastic egg from an easter party which I made the hole bigger and popped in some paste that i had made up and this seemed to deter them.
The other option is to blow out an egg, (hole in top and bottom of the egg and empty contents) and use a piping bag (or a substitute) and pipe the mustard into the egg shell.

She will soon learn the error of her ways. Good luck

[ginger ninger]

Here ya go.
Cheese Chicken Lasagne - Chicken Recipes

O...sorry ...you mean to stop the chicken eating the egg's

[sheena]

Here ya go.
Cheese Chicken Lasagne - Chicken Recipes

O...sorry ...you mean to stop the chicken eating the egg's

That's different... Might have to give that a go! Right then, where's those pesky egg eaters when you want them? Justice for bully's?? lol

[Flummery]

Roll- away nest boxes - humane and effective!

[Elise]

Does anyone know why they do this? How odd!

[Llamas]

I will try the mustard egg thing, but I was actually hinting at recipes.

[MaureenHall]

Does anyone know why they do this? How odd!

they probably first get the taste for eggs by accident, then they learn how to break the eggs themselves. Once they get into that, it's a really bad habit to break

[Snadger]

A tiny piece of lead placed in her ear may help!

[sheena]

Snadge you never cease to amaze me, actually I half expected you to contribute towards the recipe's lol