When building your chicken coop, it's obvious that you need to secure it from predators that might eat your eggs as well as your chickens. However, as devastating as it is to go out and discover you have lost some of your flock to a fox or hawk, it is almost more disconcerting for many to reach into a nesting box and find a snake curled up and likely enjoying your hard earned eggs. After some more alterations, refinements and improvements, you will quickly have a fool proof coop for even the most clever of egg-loving creatures, and are feeling comfortable about the security of your birds and their eggs.
However, one day you go out to your coop ready to gather eggs and notice a broken egg or two. You don't think too much of it, these things can certainly happen, but maybe you find another broken egg that same week. The next week you find some more broken eggs and now you are beginning to see a real impact to your egg yield.
What's going on? It is not unusual to occasionally lose eggs as result of the behavior of the hens themselves, which means you will likely need to modify the bedding in your nesting boxes to give the eggs a softer place to land.
Here's how we solved our egg breakage problems.
However, one day you go out to your coop ready to gather eggs and notice a broken egg or two. You don't think too much of it, these things can certainly happen, but maybe you find another broken egg that same week. The next week you find some more broken eggs and now you are beginning to see a real impact to your egg yield.
What's going on? It is not unusual to occasionally lose eggs as result of the behavior of the hens themselves, which means you will likely need to modify the bedding in your nesting boxes to give the eggs a softer place to land.
Here's how we solved our egg breakage problems.
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