Author Topic: Goat eating chicken eggs??!! (Read 1834 times)

Bumblebear · « **on:** April 01, 2013, 10:23:00 am »

IS this usual or healthy? A couple of hens insist on laying in the goat shelter and Ashia has some suspicious yellow stuff all over her mouth.......

ballingall · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2013, 10:30:21 am »

Ah, yes can happen. Won't cause the goat any harm! Only trouble is you are missing out on egg.......

If we have loads of eggs, we sometimes mix in a raw egg with the kids milk, so definitely no harm.

Beth

Anke · « **Reply #2 on:** April 01, 2013, 02:06:54 pm »

Traditional recipes for replacement colostrum have egg in it...

Only problem is shells and "egg smells" will attract rats/badgers/foxes...

sokel · « **Reply #3 on:** April 02, 2013, 07:29:23 am »

We had a polish bantam went through a spell where she would only lay in one of the goats buckets in the goat shed, once she came off cackling the race was on to get to the egg before Cherry as she would eat them