Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-09

quarters. and watching them closely
for a few days, getting each egg
as It is laid. Several years ago
/ broke fine lot Of Black Lang
shans Of this habit. This year
had lot Of White Javas that got the
habit and 1 broke them in the same
way. The cause is chiefly confinement
in close runs. l had to shut up my
fowls for several days in the house ana
that Is where they learned the habit
put them into a new run and gathered
the eggs as fast as they were laid LOT
few days and the habit was soon Dro-
ken up. When have hen that Is SIT
ting and brings off an egg every time
she comes from the nest cover up ner
sitting place and take her out and feed
and water her every morning, giving
her meat scraps If l have any. 90
this for several mornings and AFTER
that have no trouble. I practice tax
ing off my hens, feeding them, ana
putting them back on the nest, cover
ing the eggs with warm cloth whlle
the hens are off. l use incubators but
usually have some hens sitting toward
the end Of the season. had one egg
eater this season, but soon broke ner
as above. Hens will not eat eggs II
they have proper animal food. A NOR
bid appetite Is the cause. II ould
find one that could not be broken by
the treatment that have mentioned
would take her off the eggs for Few
days and put another hen on them las
generally have supernumeraries) and
give the egg eater few china eggs TO
practice on. She would forget her old
habit in few days. One way that hens
learn to eat eggs is by having Toe
many hens laying in the same nest
Some Of the eggs are broken, and IN
this way the habit is begun. Whole
eggs or half egg shells thrown to them
will teach them to break eggs; tna'
was the way my Langshans learned
the trick and my Javas learned 1t by
being kept shut up where they were
idle. Now when feed egg shells al
ways crush them. 1 now have about
400 chicks. OF the older broods there
will weigh eight pounds. The mex
brood are three weeks younger, and
have two other broods Qncubator) al
intervals of three weeks in age. The
four broods consist Of White Javas
White Cochins, White Langshans, ant
White Plymouth Rocks with few
half-breed Javas with the latter birds
Ruben G.. Porter, Emmett county
Michigan have had some trouble
with hens eating their eggs in the
nests where they were laid, but none
eating them when they were sitting
on them. Make the nests in kegs ant
the hens cannot get at them and will
soon stop the habit.
FL. Marshall, Butler county, Ohio
Yes, 1 have had some experience witt
the egg eaters. 1t is pernicious habit
and hard to break up If several get a
1t at the same time. The best way ther
is to make a nest slanting so that the
eRB Will IOll OuL VI lAlG lCdSu anu ol5h
of the hen as soon as it is laid. Care
should be taken that the construction
Of the nest is such that the eggs will
not be broken as they roll away. Con
fined hens are most apt to contract this
habit. / have also had hens that were
sitting eat their eggs. They would
bring off an egg with them every time
they came off to eat and keep up thu
habit till the eggs were all gone. Sucl
hens usually break an egg when get
ting on the nest and then take it on
with them next time they 80 to feed.
never could remedy this to my salts
faction. Nests for sitters should not b.
deep at point of entrance as that con
dition is most likely to result in bro
ken eggs. 1 think that If they did no
get an egg broken at first they woult
not carry them off, but the smearet
eggs make them worse. Whenever al
egg has been broken and the othe
eggs smeared they should be at ono
washed in lukewarm water and tn
nests made dark, If possible.
nahorninp CalVea,