2009 Omlet cube and run for sale

[Deb Dav]

Today I am doing the mega clean up and moving the chicken pen to another part of the garden to give the grass a rest. Our set up is a cube within an area enclosed by the omlet netting so that our chicken are always on grass and soil.

 

From my kitchen window I kept noticing that the chickens kept jumping up to catch something, thought nothing about it... but today when I was moving the netting noticed alot of clutches of grey or white eggs on the vertical parts of the netting. I started to quish them between my fingers but there are loads.

 

Anyone have any ideas of what creature has laid them and would it be adviseable to spray poultry shield or diatom on them? Will try and take a photo of them, at the moment the netting is laid down on the lawn and the girls are having a feast on the eggs.

 

Thanks in anticipation.

[greyhoundgirl]

Could it be spiders.

[Deb Dav]

I don't think so because you can see the individual eggs, whereas spider's eggs are wrapped in webby stuff.

 

Tried to get a photo but to no avail.

[Lewis]

Snail eggs?

[Egluntyne]

Slugs?