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cedarpondfarm:
As a source of extra protein for my birds, I have always boiled whatever eggs we didn\'t sell or eat and smashed them really well so there is no resemblance to an egg and in they go.  Even the shells are tiny pieces.  Just had my first experience with an egg eater.  I hope there is no connection.

There was egg yolk all over the other eggs in the communal nest and some small fragments.  It happened a few days straight before I found a hen with dried egg on her beard.  CAUGHT YA !!  or hope so  :0)  She is in solitary confinement and no more broken eggs - so far.  Can she be rehabed?

bantamhill:
Are you finding shell fragments?

Michael

jerryse:
Yes she can be rehabed.Use dog nail clippers and trim beak till it bleeds.Have blood stop powder handy or cauterize to stop bleeding.They can bleed to death if not stopped.A electric debeaker works great if you have one.Most of us don\'t.They will not peck a egg hard enough to break it with a sore beak and are cured by the time it heals.Beheading is the only other cure.

Schroeder:
This is off the topic a little.  The first show I ever went to was in Columbus Ohio 2 years ago.  In fact, these were the first pure breed Ameraucanas I had ever seen.  My wife and I were looking at one of the hens when she laid an egg in front of us.  If that wasn\'t surprise enough, she immediatly turned around, pecked a hole in the egg and ate it.  If the judge had seen this, would the hen have lost points.

cedarpondfarm:
I don\'t know the answer but couldn\'t find anything in the standard about it

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