How to stop Egg eating Chicken???

[MossflowerWoods]

Heck other than catching the old girl yellow beaked, how do I even catch the perp?

I cannot just sit in the coop and watch and wait.

Anyone got a "good ole boy" remedy?

Thanks in advance,
David

 

[foreman Etexas]

I seen the same problem but started keeping feed out and she stopped. Only other way is if have another place keep one or two until it stops happening and then just add the dumplings

 

[RobertN]

We tried a wooden egg; it seemed to help. My wife had read that somewhere on chicken related web site. They peck at wooden egg, it is solid, hurts, so they stop is theory.

Preventing Egg Eating by a` from the August/September, 2009 issue of Backyard Poultry | Backyard Poultry Magazine

 

[lockhaven]

If you were to put up some pictures showing how the chick develops inside the egg demonstrating to the flock that eating eggs when you are a chicken is a form of cannibalism. If you are lucky the guilty one would hang their head in shame ans slink off to a corner. If not then peer pressure from the other chickens my suffice.

 

[roadhunter]

From what I have seen with egg eating ducks and chickens the simplest fix is to kill the animal. Apparently they teach the others the same thing.

 

[rsallen]

Yep, sounds like Sunday diner to me.

 

[bcp]

Sounds like the problem is finding which is the guilty chicken, not what the appropriate punishment should be.



Bruce

 

[2LaneCruzer]

If you were to put up some pictures showing how the chick develops inside the egg demonstrating to the flock that eating eggs when you are a chicken is a form of cannibalism. If you are lucky the guilty one would hang their head in shame ans slink off to a corner. If not then peer pressure from the other chickens my suffice.

All our chickens were socialists...they were given free groceries, free housing, free range and all they had to do was strut around and reproduce. They are all pro choice.

 

[rsallen]

Sounds like the problem is finding which is the guilty chicken, not what the appropriate punishment should be.



Bruce

Fair enough. How about a reasonably cheap solution?
A game camera. Or a video cam.

 

[jaotguy]

an egg in a have a heart ( none killing ) trap out in the open ...