John Wittenborn
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Cutler, Il.
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There are alot of animals,
that will eat eggs. Coyotes, Skunk, Mink, Weasels, Opossums, Raccoons, snakes, even dogs will eat eggs. But most of the time a coon will get the blame for raiding a nest with eggs in it. Sometimes you can tell what kind of animal raided the nest by the way the eggs were eaten & how the nest was torn up.
There is an old saying "I sure broke him/her/it, from SUCKING EGGS" came from these animals raiding hen houses, killing chickens &/or eating the eggs. They would inject a red pepper solution or some other kinds of stuff into some of the eggs, & hope that it would break whatever was eating the eggs from doing it again. Also, almost all of the farmers in our area that had a hen house, would put GLASS EGGS in the hens nest. This served 2 purposes, one was to get the hens to lay their eggs in the nests in the hen house & the other reason was for snakes. When a snake eats an egg, it swallows the egg whole. When a snake would eat a GLASS EGG, it could not pass the egg through it's system & would die.
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