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• Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - chicken update

  I blogged earlier today about my hens eating thier eggs.  I have tried a few things to prevent this.  I put straw in the nest boxes.  I believe the eggs were cracking when they hit the box.  I also moved their oyster shell pan over beside their feeder.  I noticed after going back out to check on them, some were enjoying setting in the straw lined boxes, and they seem to have eaten about half of the dish of oyster shells!  Hope this works.  Chicken

ps. Kim, thank you for responding and helping me.

 

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Posted by southernbelle
I had read about your dilema earlier but I couldn't offer any advice. I hope you've resolved the problem. I am just fascinated with chickens and eggs but sadly, don't have any of my own. I try to read what everyone says about them just in case I do get my own one day. I'd love to know what you do with all the eggs when you're getting a lot of eggs each week.
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