I think we have different morals because I find it weird to feed them their own eggs. They would've potentially been their children after all, that just strikes me as... I don't know, I guess the thought makes me uncomfortable. I think our hens prefer their carefully planned homemade diet and the insects they peck on the meadow. We do sometimes feed them very finely crushed eggshells for the calcium but I feel that, psychologically, it's much more kind to just take the eggs away.

Most hens do not experience pain while laying eggs and I've noticed our hens being proud of laying their eggs, prancing around basically looking for approval. We leave them in the nest for a couple of days before we take them so the hens can look after them for a while as that's their instinct and what they love to do. Laying eggs is in their nature and they only seem to experience pain when the egg is too large for their body, which is common in commercial farms - ours, despite being commercially bred, tend to lay smaller eggs, I reckon that is something that could potentially be connected to their food.

I understand not eating eggs from commercially kept chicken, they live in horrible conditions in most of the cases (though in my country there are now fairly strict regulations they could still be better) but these are your own chicken and you're personally making sure they're happy and content so it's not like your hens experience cruelty anymore. They lay the eggs anyway, why not eat them?

Frankly if I was a hen I'd much prefer someone take and appreciate my hard labor instead of forcing me to eat it, but maybe I'm humanizing the chicken a little too much - I'm not sure they have the capacity to understand what's going on.

I don't want to convince you of anything, if you feel that that's the right way to do it, then you go ahead and do it that way. I'm more curious because I come from such a different spot - I would've never even had the idea to feed chicken eggs to our chicken.