Vanalope<p>Well shit. Good news/bad news. Two of our other chickens have started to lay.</p><p>When I opened the coop early this morning to clean it out, I discovered the interior remains of an egg on the poop catch board under their night roosts. So someone laid an egg there really late yesterday or early this morning but someone ate it. Not a scrap of shell left. This seems to imply someone isn't getting enough calcium. This shouldn't be as I give them layer pellets and they have a treat cup full of crushed oyster shell supplement to give them a constant supply of calcium.</p><p>Later in the morning, I heard egg song and looked in the coop to see Tisiphone in a nest box. So I let her be and 30 min later when I saw her come out, checked the box. Again, only interior remnants of an egg. For sure it was Tisiphone that ate her own egg, no one else went into the coop in those 30 min.</p><p>So there's some things I can try to nip this behavior in the bud. Gonna get them an even higher % protein diet than they are already getting (though current diet should be sufficient).</p><p>Will put some extra treats in the oyster shell cup and make sure I see all of them have eaten from there. I dunno, maybe Tisiphone hasn't noticed they oyster shell treat cup yet and isnt getting enough Calcium?</p><p>Also have solid decoy eggs on the way and will try hanging curtains over the entrance of the egg boxes. All things that can help correct egg eating behavior.</p><p>Can also try blowing out an egg and fill it with something they don't like to try negative reinforcement of the behavior. I really hope I don't have to fall to the last resort, get rid of any egg eaters, if that means all of them, start over.</p><p>Am so frigging bummed am having to deal with this.</p><p>Alecto laid again a bit later in the am,and that good girl didn't eat her egg. I was able to get to it before anyone else.</p><p><a href="https://timeloop.cafe/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chickens</span></a> <a href="https://timeloop.cafe/tags/ChickensofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChickensofMastodon</span></a></p>