pullets eating eggs,advise.

[kenneth toone]

My 18 weeks old blackrock pullets are eating some of thier eggs, has anyone got advise.

 

[Chuck]

This is a difficult problem and hard to stop. If they are laying in the nest boxes, try putting some dark cloth or a cut up feed bag across the entrance to darken them. Get some china or rubber eggs to put in the boxes to confuse them. Try the old fashioned method of putting mustard in some eggs the taste of which puts them off.

 

[tygrysek75]

Please explore more of the forum as this topic is very common.Good luck 99
Try this http://poultrykeeperforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1335&hilit=eating+eggs

 

[chrismahon]

Friend tried mustard and they loved it but otherwise I agree with Chuck. We have found when they have bashed their beaks on a pot egg a few times they soon lose interest. It has never failed yet. Wilkos are now selling brown solid rubber eggs and I've bought some for the next egg pecker- should be funny to watch!!

 

[jubilee]

We tried Tabasco, and mustard, but our hen also loved it, the only thing which stopped her was when we started collecting the eggs more often, and not leaving them in the nestbox so long. Egg eating starts usually when an egg gets broken, and they have a peck at the contents, the more often you can collect them, the less chance they have of standing on them and breaking them. The cloth over the nestbox works too, as they have really bad eye sight in the dark, so less chance of seeing the eggs already laid. It becomes a habit in a very short space of time, and a very hard one to stop.

JubesX

 

[Chuck]

Yes, frequent collections and roll away nest boxes as a last reort perhaps.