Re: Chicken/egg problem

Posted by farmerboy on January 16, 2011 at 12:40:55 from (75.100.218.101):

In Reply to: Chicken/egg problem posted by old on January 16, 2011 at 08:10:15:

Hey Old,

I have 8000 laying hens and any one of them would gobble up an egg if presented with an opportunity. They don't seem to bother unbroken eggs, but a cracked one doesn't stand a chance. I have rollaway nests that allow the egg to roll onto a belt down the center of the barn, but I'm having a huge problem with them laying on the floor in barn two - about 1000 eggs a day. Of the 1000 eggs, probably 2 dozen are eaten up, the rest are left alone. It seems to me they can't break the shells unless the shell was already weak and then landed on by a chicken coming off the roost. Otherwise they leave the eggs on the floor alone. Obviously the eggs on the belt are safe as well.

Can you get some rollaway nests? If the birds lay in them, the eggs roll out of reach and the ladies can't eat em.

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