eating eggs

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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.

Hmmm...I really like the Dawn idea.  I have a Cochin that eats eggs.  Her own AND her pen mates.