Oh dear - I have an egg eater

[Nicos]

...and it looks like it's my 2nd cockerel...and maybe one of my gals

Going to try the mustard trick.
I keep looking out for laid eggs to fetch them in asap, but they're being eaten pretty quickly.

Any tips peeps????

[Suechooks]

'Fraid you've mentioned the only 2 I know apart from darkening the nest box? Or roll away nest boxes?

[Nicos]

Can you get roll aways bantam sized I wonder????

[roitelet]

Coq au vin????????

[Nicos]

Ha!...it's not Au Vin....it's Paxo

Had dried egg yolk all over his face.
One of the chooks has decided to lay on the windowsill which is tiny and slightly sloping- so I think they have rolled and smashed- and then eaten.
Not sure if the geese may have had access too ( they're shut out all day now)...would a goose intentionally break and eat a hens egg????

[Scarlet]

Chickens will eat anything if available and smashed eggs are fair game - I would try stopping the hen from laying on the window sill before going any further.

[Glutton4...]

I have an egg-eater, too. Mine is four-legged with a long scaly tail. He's currently getting up to three eggs a day when I'm at work, because my Dad keeps forgetting to 'egg-check' like he offered.

In fairness, he did offer me his Rat traps, and whilst showing me how sensitive they are, and telling me how I needed to be soooo careful when setting them, he managed to trap his finger and take off half the skin. Without swearing! And they haven't been seen since.

That reminds me - I went to the bladdy feed merchant this morning, and forgot to buy bait. GRRRR