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Cloverleaf Farm:

--- Quote from: Beth C ---Dad was living in quarters at the VA and shared a community kitchen. He liked a particular brand of beer that was only available in PA at that time, so he\'d bring some back with him when he went home, and it kept disappearing out of the shared refrigerator. He had his suspicions, but could never catch them, so he carefully removed the cap from one (using pliers & a piece of rubber to keep from damaging it), drank part of it, and filled it back up with something yucky, carefully put the cap back on, marked it in an inconspicuous place, and put it back in the fridge. The next day, it was still in the fridge but with an ounce or so gone out of it and he never had any more beer taken...
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LOL!!!!!!!!!  That\'s awesome!!!!!!

jerryse:
I used the beak trim method on a araucana pullet that I discovered to be laying but had never got a egg.I now have 2 eggs from her.A sore beak is a good deterent.It is like trimming a fingernail too close.You are careful with that finger until the tendeness goes away.

John:
Jerry,

Sounds like a very good idea...once you figure out the culprit.

Guest:
I found that when I upped the protein level of the birds, they stopped eating the eggs. Also, when they could get outside helped. I almost only have an egg eating problem in the winter when they won\'t go outside.

Another deterrant is vicks vaporub. Imagine getting that in your mouth, it takes a long time to get it off or away.
I use to put it on chair legs when I had puppies in the house so they wouldn\'t chew on them. It only takes one lick...blow out the egg and use an empty syringe to put some inside the shell.

Tailfeathers:
I didn\'t see an answer to the question of whether their is a correlation between feeding birds eggs and then them becoming an egg eater.

I don\'t think so.  For one thing, I don\'t think the birds are smart enough to know what a cooked egg is, let alone relate it to one in the shell that\'s been layed.  

Secondly, I take all the chicken and duck eggs from the incubator that don\'t hatch or aren\'t developing right when candling, break them in a bowl with the shell, add some cayenne pepper, and then nuke that into a nice big souffle.  The chickens, ducks, guineas, peafowl, all eat it like there\'s no tomorrow and I\'ve never had a problem with an egg eater.

God Bless,
 

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