Egg Eating – 7 Causes & Ways To Break This Messy Habit

 


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“Egg eating by your chickens is a bad habit that gets harder to break the longer you let it go on.

It is obviously undesirable to have your flock laying eggs and proceeding to eat them, regardless of whether you sell the eggs or use them in your own family’s kitchen.

Many say that culling the offenders is the only way to stop it, but I offer that there are a few less drastic solutions.

It generally starts by accident.

An egg gets stepped on or otherwise breaks, one curious hen pecks at it and thinks – hmm this tastes good. She will then start breaking eggs as they are laid, and soon other hens will follow her lead and you’ll have a whole flock laying eggs and proceeding to eat them…”

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