[northfifeduckling]

I'm asking this for a friend - can't find the old thread about this topic.
My friends' hens have started eating their eggs. She had tried everything with her previous lot without success, same problem.
I read somewhere, I think it was here -  to do something with mustard, and reading it at the time I thought this was the only thing she hadn't tried - can someone remind me with my ever so poor memory?

[JD]

Hi, it was March 12th in the poultry section headed, ''Help...hens eating eggs''.
Good luck JD 

[Kier]

I;m not sure about any past articles but I know what you mean.What you do is blow an egg then fill it with mustard and place it back in the coop,If you not sure what chicken it is just leave it in there and who the unlucky one is who pecks at the mustard egg will soon be put off.It might be worth doing a couple of eggs.Good luck

[doganjo]

There's that man with the lovely name again!  Where did your folks get it from?  My daughter just picked it from a book, but they hadn't realised that their church was in Keir Road, and that the Keir roundabout was just up the road too
As to hen pecking lol, I fund an egg with a hole in ti again today - ex batts up to their tricks again.  Must keep an eye on them!

[Kier]

lol thanks very much,My names Kieran but kier for short its of irish/gaelic origin and means black.Its the name of a 6th century saint who was admired for his generosity.

[The Relic]

dubh is black in irish never heard kier used before.

[doganjo]

Dubh is black in Gaelic too - as in the Dubh Loch near Lochnagar

[The Relic]

or as in dubh linn  Dublin (black pool)

[doganjo]

Ah, I wondered about that   so Blackpool IS in Ireland!

[The Relic]

dont know of any Blackpools in ireland (dubh linn as in a black pool/pond)

[doganjo]

'Twas a wee joke so it was

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Ah, I wondered about that   so Blackpool IS in Ireland!

Yeah there is Blackpool (or what ever the same was in gaelic) in Ireland is the beach in Dublin (it was on coast not so long ago.)
Nothing to do with hens eating egg so i'll shut up.
Linz

[The Relic]

im from dublin and i can say that i have never heard of a beach called that.

again nothing to do with chickens eating eggs so i'll shut up also

[Fluffywelshsheep]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/programmes3/06_galway_baltimore.shtml think it was this edition which mentions about the black pool but couldn't get a iplayer for it
Linz

[G0MZS]

I've noticed that these hens have eaten some eggs but only when the eggs are broken. I have a barn that's 250 year old or so and the floor is made of brick lay English bond and the eggs break when a certain hen lays them out of the coop. Maybe this is the problem?

P.S Will this give the hens a taste for egg enough that the may break they? I was told to cook the eggs the hens are laying for a week or so and feed them back, shells and all....? Any ideas?