Update on hens eating eggs
The egg eating has seemed to
scale back to every other day for some reason?
We are pretty sure they are
getting plenty of calcium.
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Isn't the roll-out tray supposed to prevent this? Is this one of those trayss with a spring? What about the design should change to prevent the hens getting to the eggs? I'm interested because I'm looking for one too, not so much for egg eating (though it does happen once in a while and I would like to prevent it), but for when we go away for a while. Thanks!
It might be that this flock was used to foraging in the woods and now feel cramped but they have plenty of space with the extending tractor design.
Yes....that makes sense that the days there is not eating are days when the troubled egg eaters are on a day off of laying.
Yes....I've got some ideas about extending the tray portion...more on that in a future post.