Scrambled egg

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Simple question do chickens eat cooked eggs.
Ive been lead to belive they do, or is this a form of cannibalis.

Booty :roll:
 
I have seen it mentioned previously that chickens do eat eggs. I think it is a good source of protein for them, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong!
 
they will brake and eat their own eggs but if you let them you wont get any for your self.
i do belive that a lot of people used to cook scramble eggs for chicks before chick crumb. when i have a sick chicken i give them egg also cooked egg shell is ment to be good calciam but might just be old wifes tail
 
Traditionally in the real old days the first feed for chicks was hard boiled egg mashed up. It's still carried on by some people (part of folk lore now). Obviously if you put it in for the chicks the hen will eat it too.

In short - no harm at all.
 
We give our new chicks finely ground up hard boiled eggs they love it and so does mum. If we have surplus eggs we hard boil them and give them to the chooks, specially the cockerels.
 
When they're laying well and i have a spare egg or two, i blend it complete with its shell in a microwaveable container, then 'scramble' it and either feed it like that or mix it in with a warm mash of soaked pellets in the winter, to give them a protein and calcium boost esp. when moulting. You do want to avoid giving them the idea that egg is a nice food to eat, so if you cook it, it doesn't seem like the same stuff to them.
 
I boil up lots of eggs, then blitz them wholein the mixer and feed them back shell and and all to cockerels, cocks and chicks - excellent if you have a bird under the weather that doesn't want to eat as well!
 
In spring or sometimes late Autumn, when they are all laying but there is no passing trade to buy the eggs, we scramble them and feed to the hens as a treat. Shame, but otherwise they would be wasted -I can't eat that many! They love it.
 
Been told by one of the trade breeder articles that too much calcium is very bad for hens. There is sufficient for their needs in layers pellets. Stopped feeding baked and crushed egg shells and also oyster grit 2 years ago without any problems at all since.The article is on the internet somewhere and was so compelling that we stopped extra calcium immediately.
 
Hi all i have feed my 4 scrambled eggs,it doesnt seem to bother them.In the winter i have also feed tehm some porridge using hotwater instead of milk.
 
my chickens love them especialy if they are mised in with meal works, just ont give them the whole egg, because they will start eating there eggs after laying them :D
 
If the eggs are hardboiled and put through the mixer - shell and all it certainly doesn't encourage them to eat their eggs - at the mo - I'm boiling about 5 doz zggs a day - and as most of the birds are in the moult it gives them some of the extra protein that the need!
 
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