Many chicken keepers only have chickens for the eggs. Imagine the dismay when you find that the hens are eating the eggs before you can! Egg eating is not terribly common in backyard hens but it can become a huge problem. Once a hen starts eating her own eggs, she may move on to eating all the eggs. Since chickens are of the 'monkey see ~ monkey do' variety, once egg eating starts with one hen you can very quickly end up with an entire flock with egg on their faces!
Luckily there are a few simple steps to prevent egg eating in chickens. It's a little harder to stop egg eating once hens have started, but it's possible. Obviously though, it makes more sense to try to prevent egg eating then to have to stop egg eating in chickens. While it's not bad for your chickens health to eat their own eggs, it's certainly counterproductive for the chicken keeper!
Let's begin with why chickens eat their own eggs. Generally it starts with a broken egg. Whether it falls onto the floor, or they just smash together and break in the nest box ... once a hen sees what deliciousness is inside, she's sure to gobble it straight down. That's not to say that one dropped egg will start your flock on the road to egg eating. Repeated incidences could though.
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