Oh Those Chickens...

Well, I think at least two of our chickens are laying eggs now.   They've laid a total of 5 eggs so far.  We've only got three of them though...  The chickens ate the other two!   So yeah...we've been trying to think up ways to keep them from eating their own eggs.  We thought of filling an emptied egg with mustard.  We kind of tried it, only we spread mustard on the inside of half an egg shell and placed it in the "chicken coop" with the shell facing upward and surrounded by hay so it would look more like a whole egg.   Well, it's probably not going to keep them from wanting to eat more of their eggs because they apparently enjoyed eating it.  I'm sure we'll figure something out eventually.