egg eating bantam

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We have 3 bantam hens plus a cockeral in a large house and run. one started laying last week and I found one pecking away under the sitting hen and she had tried to eat the egg under her, this has happened 2 or 3 times so I seperated the egg eating one as I thought and put her in a little house and run seperate, yesterday she laid an egg and didnt touch it. I know it was her eating the eggs as I caught her at it. Is she suffering from a chicken physcological disorder (LOL) or what. she is sitting very low on the ground in the run I don t want to 'dispose' of her, I had thought of blowing an egg and filling it with mustard. any thoughts please

jenn
 
Mustard doesn't work Jenny. We use pot eggs. When they have bashed their little beaks on a pot egg a few times they soon lose interest. You can get them in different sizes as well. Just leave one in the nest box for a few weeks to be sure she doesn't try again.
 
Seconded on both counts. Mustard doesn't work, and they don't like bending their beaks on a crock egg. :)
 
If you can't get a crock egg straight away, you can hard boil an egg and this can work. Also try to cover up the nest box to make it darker.
Egg eating is one of the most difficult things to cure as the eggs are obviously much liked but sometimes they can be stopped.
 
thanks for replies, shes laid another one today and hasnt touched it, she can see the others as her coop is next to them - funny things chickens

jenn
 
I put her with a small bantie cockeral and she is laying every day and hasnt touhed the eggs so she was obvioulsy jealous LOL of the others eggs. Dear little soul. shes really happy now

thanks for adsvice anyway I will remember that if I get another egg eater

Jenn
 
Breeder we went over to see today places several golf balls around in the cage of an egg eater. That works equally well, even with round white golf balls simulating pinky eggs!
 
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