Show easy to minimize loss from hens eating eggs complaints of hens eating eggs dropped on the floor or in the nests of the pens are quite common the b habit abit usually starts from hens finding a cracked egg curiosity and appetite are the incentives that lead tho the hens to taste the contents of the egg being g very palatable they take advantage of every such opportunity and soon look for eggs whether broken or not it if the nests are kept hept dark there will be little trouble from layers offending if the eggs are gathered regularly from the floor that will minimize the loss at that point it if the contents of the normal eggs are removed through one end and the shell Is refilled with a mixture containing mustard pepper gasoline and other ingredients distasteful to hens combined with any substance that will hold bold them together in a paste somo soma may be cured of the habit if they taste the concoction |