does anyone know how to tell a egg eater fron non egg eater----thanks------

-- chris evensen (chris_evensen@hotmail.com), October 21, 2001

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Response to egg eaters

yolk on its face? LOL askes for over easy ? COMplains when there4 isnt salt at the table?

-- stan (sopal@net-port.com), October 21, 2001.

Chris, It involves spending some time in the chicken house watching the chickens and how they behave. An egg eater spends a lot of time in and around the nestboxes. They also go in and out of the nestboxes without laying anything. You have to catch them in the act of eating an egg, then it's chicken and noodles time!! Good luck.

-- Karen in Kansas (kansasgoats@iwon.com), October 21, 2001.

The only way we have been able to tell is to catch them in the act.

-- Vince Redinger (redinger@southwind.net), October 21, 2001.

And once you catch the offender, separate that bird from the rest of the flock. If you don't, the others will learn the habit, which is next to impossible to break. The butcher's block is where most folks put these birds.

-- ~Rogo (rogo2020@yahoo.com), October 21, 2001.

If you only have a few hens, just take them out one at a time for a week and see when the egg-eating stops. Unfortunately, in my experience it is a learned behavior, and sometimes an egg-eater will teach her friends to join the feast.

-- Sheryl in Me (radams@sacoriver.net), October 21, 2001.

I put EAstereggs in the nest and take out all the real eggs as soon as possible so the egg eater can't eat the eggs. Helped stop mine.

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), October 21, 2001.

Try adding wooden eggs, ping pong balls or golf balls to the nests to discourage pecking the eggs. I used to move these around as if they were newly laid. It really helped. Make the nest darker with a curtain over the entrance. The first person to explain this to me was an old farmer of 5 years of age. And she was right.

-- Anne (HealthyTouch101@wildmail.com), October 21, 2001.

My chickens will only eat eggs when they are protein deficient. I find that giving them more protien promptly corrects this problem in my flock. I don't know if this will work for everyone though.

-- Tiffani (cappello@alltel.net), October 26, 2001.

We filled brocken but whole eggs with English mustard. You only have to do this for about three days and the chicken stops. They must think it is as disgusting as I find it. Just watch out for the chicken running to the water lol.

Alison

-- Alison Homa (alisonhoma@aol.com), October 27, 2001.