egg eating by the hens
Some of my hens have turned to egg eating. I've stepped up my harvesting routine to no avail. I'm thinking about replacing the pine shavings in the nest boxes with fire place ashes to make any broken...
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Good luck with this it can be hard to impossible for some hens to give up. I've had this problem a couple of times, both times was just the standard brahmas doing the egg eating. The first time the...
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Hey Juls, what do you use, a good dog kibble? I had one rhode island red last summer who developed an appetite for eggs. I kept her in a separate pen most of the summer and when I put her back, the...
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Yes, I too would like to know where the meat protein came from. I have been feeding pure organic layer pellets with some flax seeds added; and I frequently give them cucumbers when they are on the...
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I too have seen plans for a ramp system and I wish you luck! (I'm construction challenged, let us know how it turns out.) I still think a good quality dog food might do the trick, I might have to try....
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When I can't get the feed at our farm supply with meat products in it I would just toss in a mushroom can of cat or kitten food. I would think dog chow that was sized right for your birds would work...
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Thanks for the information. In the summer, when I feed the dogs and cats, several chickens come around and they fight over the food. I'll try it on a regular basis and see if it helps. Julie
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Well, after one day in service, my ramp and padded catch channel seems to be working. I got 5 undamaged eggs from my 7 hens and found no evidence of broken egg debris. At first, the chickens made a...
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Inquiring minds want to know, how are things going. Still no eatting?
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A little. Yesterday I got 7 eggs, and today 6. Two days ago I found an eaten egg and got 5.My hens are laying their eggs in 3 places: the nests, the nest roof and the hen house floor.I have been...
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Seems awful pricey to use ground beef. I would either use dry cat food, a can of moist cat food, you can start a meal worm farm....or you can get them some minnows....Thats very fun to watch...
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I'd go radical and do a surefire thing to solve this egg eating problem. I'd eat the egg eater!
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db: not very pricy. I only give them an amount equal to approximately 2 meatballs per day. And I seem to always have hamburger in the fridge. a: my little hens are like pets to me. I really don't mind...
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But laying one a day and eating one a day....plus the food they eat, its still a loss....and at a point, it will become every egg that she can get close to.
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dg wrote: db:not very pricy. I only give them an amount equal to approximately 2 meatballs per day. And I seem to always have hamburger in the fridge.a:my little hens are like pets to me. I really...
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I'm the same way with my chickens, I can't eat any of them. Last summer I figured out who was eating eggs and seggregated her from the rest for a long time, bringing her back to the coop when winter...
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I understand about them being pets, that's how I am with the laying pen. Now that may change if I ever have any more of this problem. After raising and eating some meat birds I might think...
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I was recently reading in a book on raising chickens that lack of enough salt in their diet will cause cannibalism. I know that eating other chickens is cannibalism, but is egg-eating also?The author...
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I would like to thank everyone for their advice. I found it very helpful. I now seem to be getting all the eggs without any eggeating.Steps I took:1) remodeled nests to roll eggs into trap zone.2)...
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