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Thanks for your extra kind comment. Super helpful and very informative. 🥰

Me too! 🥰

You're welcome. 😁

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I don't understand what you meant by this?

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Not true, feeding eggs back to chickens will not necessarily make them start to eat them from the nest. Plenty of people have fed eggs back for decades with no nest eating habits developing.

Why? Do you believe the myth that this directly causes nest egg eating?

@@CityChickenFarm because I had this problem once before in my flock

@@Dash_Thebass That's very unfortunate. Good thing a roll out nest box is an easy fix. 😁 I post my egg collections every day, you're welcome to keep tabs on their progress. 🤗 Yesterday and today they laid 11 eggs, no nest egg eating. Today's collection will be posted tomorrow. 🥰

Thanks for your opinion. 🥰

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I'm not really worried about that right now. With how hard that shell was, they would have some difficulty breaking that themselves in the nest. This particular egg was likely laid while roosting at night and rolled down the poop catcher tarp and hit the concrete before rolling into sawdust. I've been lucky, some fall in the poop and don't break. 🥳

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😂😂 it gets better everyday😅 keep trying and stay strong💪

@@esham3060 Baby steps 👶

Chicken 100% naturally do eat their own eggs. Don’t equate this to human beings, it’s not the same thing. Also, that egg was unfertilized so it’s absolutely NOT like eating a full term baby after giving birth.

This is wildly inaccurate and very much a false equivalence.

Not necessarily true. Plenty of people feed back eggs with no issues and have done so for years. Eggs are an excellent source of nutrition for the girls.

If you're feeding all the necessary vitamins and minerals to the chickens in the first place, you don't and shouldn't need to feed them the eggs. Also, feeding chickens their eggs, can in time further down the line, (if you allow them to breed), cause dna issues. This is how mad cow disease started, because cows were routinely fed bone meal, from their own species. The same has happened in humans cannibal tribes, when they have been eating the brains of their dead. In essence, don't do it!

This is not true for chickens. Chickens will eat their own eggs when left uncollected for long enough. These girls are not with a rooster, and are not necessarily breeding quality birds. Feeding back eggs is normal and healthy. ❤

So just my 30+ years experience of having between 4 to 25 hens at a time i never given hens broken eggs and you no what I never had any eat there own eggs/or other eggs. But who knows maybe I just make sure they have quality feed, are not stress or bord but you do you

Lol. You deleted my comment. Very funny. I must have hit a nerve. I'll say again. When you feed your chickens the proper food with all the vitamins and minerals they need, they don't need to eat the eggs. A good all-around layers pellet, with some cracked corn, wheat, and oats to keep them entertained, and the right ratio of grit and smashed sea shells for calcium, they'll set themselves up for good tasty eggs. Don't forget the extra protein from live or dead larvae. They love eating live larvae!

I'm not sure why anyone would think this is cruel, or not good to do. That makes no sense to me.

How would this not be good? I don't understand. The purpose is to teach new laying pullets/hens where they should lay their eggs. Sometimes new laying chickens will lay eggs in the yard, their run, on the roost, etc. This helps them learn so the eggs are easy to find and stay relatively clean.

How would this be cruel? I don't understand. The purpose is to teach new laying pullets/hens where they should lay their eggs. Sometimes new laying chickens will lay eggs in the yard, their run, on the roost, etc. This helps them learn so the eggs are easy to find and stay relatively clean.

The purpose is to teach new laying pullets/hens where they should lay their eggs. Sometimes new laying chickens will lay eggs in the yard, their run, on the roost, etc. This helps them learn so the eggs are easy to find and stay relatively clean.

I have names for 8 of the 12 pullets. The Speckled Sussex and Wyandottes do not have names yet.

Thank you! ❤ The Cochins are precious with their feathered feet! 😍

I agree! 🥰

Yes, I have 9 laying pullets.

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Thank you! 🥰

We're not going for organic, at least not right now. We are located in Illinois, USA.

Good start. Eventually you would have control over the things you need and use. A pathway to self sufficiency.

@@mediaisthevirus3542 Homesteading is the main goal for the future. ❤

During the day, the big girls are not very nice. 😏 It's nice seeing them all being close together and not running away from each other. 🥰😆

My Rhode Island Reds and Golden Comets are putting in the work! 💪 It's their first year so they aren't molting and have the ability to lay through the fall without much trouble. ❤

Thank you! 🥰

Thank you! ❤

Oh no, definitely no snake in there. 😅 I would probably pass out on the spot. 😂😭

Oh yes, it was an incredible experience. 😊