Day 2199 Coop Chaos
Happy hens, but there’s trouble in the coop. Tim and I are getting fewer eggs these days, and it looks like we’ve got a known egg eater in the house. I placed three ceramic eggs in the nesting box, one of the usual tricks for stopping this behavior, but it hasn't worked. The yolk we’ve seen on one of our Leghorns’ feathers has revealed her as the culprit, and her bad behavior needs to end. I’ll be watching closely this weekend, gathering up any fresh eggs hourly to try to beat her to the box. But this can’t go on. Another remedy people swear by is filling an egg with mustard. It can’t be easy to pull off, but I may have to give it a try. I can’t have a hen eating eggs—what the heck? This is the first time I’ve dealt with this behavior, and hopefully it will be the last. I’m just afraid bad habits are contagious, and I can’t have that spreading through the flock. I may have to isolate the culprit until she stops, but with three identical White Leghorns, I need to make sure I catch...
