Implement False Eggs for Behavior Modification

chickens not to peck their eggs so if you've got chickens that are eating your eggs here's an easy solution to solve that and it's right over here in the laying boxes so each one of these laying boxes some of them have eggs in them already but uh this is a fresh egg right here that was just laid this morning and this is not an egg this is a clay egg you can see i put an x on it because it feels so real you can confuse these two if it didn't have the x on it you wouldn't know which egg is an egg and which egg is made out of clay so this is a clay egg i'll post a link down in the video description for you guys this is one that i just put in this morning this is one that's been in for a little bit so you see it's got a little bit of chicken poop on it that's a normal thing it's okay it's normal to have chicken poop most of your eggs aren't gonna come out this nice and this clean what happens is chickens will develop a habit they'll see that they can get a reward by pecking something that's shaped like an egg now when you put this false egg in here when they peck that they peck it and it gets some i guess it's a noxious feeling in other words they peck it and they don't get a reward because it's too hard to bust okay so when they learn that if they peck something that's shaped like an egg and it doesn't give them a reward every time they'll stop pecking eggs now does it have to be completely shaped like an egg absolutely not it does not have to be we also can use something as simple as golf balls i'll post links to those eggs that we have there and you saw it has an x on it the reason it's got an x is so we don't accidentally gather up the fake eggs and try to crack that for breakfast but you can use golf balls too i encourage if you use golf balls to use a nice clean golf ball they're going to get dirty so you'll have to clean them once every two months or so so here's the carton of clay eggs and you can see i've already got these marked and what we're going to do is we'll place these clay eggs throughout the nesting boxes in our straw or hay right there you can just go to lowe's or home depot wherever and pick yourself out a bale of straw and do this we want the rest of the coop to not be enticing for the chicken to be comfortable and lay an egg so the chicken wants to go back into a little cave and it wants to lay its egg in this little cave and that's what this provides for them having access to your eggs on the outside of the coop saves your shoes it…