Amy and Hildegard
My friend Amy is always doing fascinating things. She is the one who took up Contra Dancing. And before that it was Jumpology. She has taught piano and is a violinist, but is now taking cello lessons. And she got a trucker’s license in order to drive preschoolers in a school bus. And she is a marathon runner too. There is more.
But Amy’s latest endeavor is raising chickens.
She and her sons built the perfect stable safe house for them, better known as a chicken coop. She then bought four beautiful egg laying chickens and she gave them old fashioned names:
- Penelope
- Gertrude (Gertie)
- Esther, and
- Henrietta
And they all laid beautiful delicious eggs. But sadly, Henrietta passed away. They said it was from an inherited disease. Amy was distraught, but soon went out and purchased two more cluckers:
- Esmerelda and
- Hildegard (Hildegard is now her favorite chicken! She runs to greet Amy and rides on her shoulder).
Unfortunately, Amy just discovered
that Hildegard and Esmerelda are EGG EATERS!
Oh no!
This is not good.
This is a very bad thing because it teaches all the other chickens to eat eggs too.
It is a nasty habit, egg eating, and very hard to break. But Amy is determined.
What to do. What to do.
Amy thinks this blog post may help others of you out there who are raising chickens who turn out to be egg eaters. After assiduous research and concentrated efforts to watch, wait and trick the ladies, things seem to be paying off.
Try these remedies:
- Watch, wait and grab newly laid eggs of the “good girls” ASAP.
- Replace real eggs in the nesting box with golf balls. The chicken ladies will peck the hard golf balls and this will make their beaks hurt. This is breaking a habit with negative suggestion…. like pain.
- Replace real eggs with Mustard Eggs! Ever hear of that one? To make a mustard egg you blow out a real egg so only the shell is left and then insert mustard. Chickens HATE mustard and when they peck at such an egg the taste is awful. More negative psychology. It would cure me of eating eggs too!
Do you have an egg eater in your family besides of the human variety?
Have you successfully convinced your chickens to stop egg eating?
Please share your remedies.
We are in search of a cure.
Virginia Views 