Comments on: egg theft

By: colouritgreen

colouritgreen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:42:19 +0000

they might have gone one at a time.. we have not been disturbing her.. but took a peek the time we saw her off the nest. but no.. we really don’t have much in the way of snakes here.
I can jsut about imagine a rat squeezing in under the bottom of the broody coup.. I cannot imagine it getting an egg back. baffling. so next time we will have to mesh the bottom too, and hope that makes a difference. meantime we have set a live capture trap, in the hope of catching the thief.. or one of them…

By: joyknits

joyknits — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:12:16 +0000

Do you have snakes there? Back when we had chickens and ducks, we sometimes had problems with large snakes stealing eggs, but probably not 10 at once. Good luck!

By: susi

susi — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:26:57 +0000

I do sympathise. Our broody hen has only raised two chicks from six eggs – she moved the eggs and buried four of them in the straw and only sat on two. The two chicks are doing well so it’s disappointing to think there might have been six of them.