The Official Forum of the Ameraucana Breeders Club > Ameraucana Marketplace

eating eggs

<< < (2/4) > >>

Cloverleaf Farm:
Before you maim your bird, there are other things you can try.  I cured an egg eater with a blown out egg filled with Dawn dish soap, and re-sealed with wax.  It only took once, and now, over a year later, she won\'t touch an egg, no matter how long I leave it in there.  

There is also the option of a roll-away nest box, so she never gets the chance to see the egg.

Some folks have had success by darkening the laying area, hens won\'t eat what they can\'t see.

I recently had an egg eating problem in my LF Ameraucana coop.  I knew the roo was the instigator, so he is locked up in solitary, and all the girls stopped eating the eggs once he was seperated.

Point is, there ARE things you can try, and some of them work. ;)

Cloverleaf Farm:

--- Quote from: 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.
--- End quote ---


I can\'t imagine that she would have.  There is nothing in how the judges score the birds that has anything to do with eggs.  And nothing to do with behavior listed there either.  

Beth C:

--- Quote from: Cloverleaf Farm ---I cured an egg eater with a blown out egg filled with Dawn dish soap, and re-sealed with wax.  It only took once, and now, over a year later, she won\'t touch an egg, no matter how long I leave it in there.
--- End quote ---


I don\'t know what made me laugh harder, imagining you meticulously booby-trapping an egg or that sucker pecking into it! That\'s hysterical!! Reminds me of a story my dad used to tell about how he broke a roommate of stealing his beer...

I don\'t think Jerry meant to actually debeak her, just sore her up enough that she \"punished\" herself every time she pecked at the egg.

Cloverleaf Farm:

--- Quote from: Beth C ---
--- Quote from: Cloverleaf Farm ---I cured an egg eater with a blown out egg filled with Dawn dish soap, and re-sealed with wax.  It only took once, and now, over a year later, she won\'t touch an egg, no matter how long I leave it in there.
--- End quote ---


I don\'t know what made me laugh harder, imagining you meticulously booby-trapping an egg or that sucker pecking into it! That\'s hysterical!! Reminds me of a story my dad used to tell about how he broke a roommate of stealing his beer...

I don\'t think Jerry meant to actually debeak her, just sore her up enough that she \"punished\" herself every time she pecked at the egg.
--- End quote ---


LOL  now THAT\'S a story I\'d like to hear....

Yeah, I know, it just didn\'t sit right with me...  :/

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...

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page