Hi everyone! First time poster!
This was my first winter with my flock. Six Plymouth blue rocks(one is a rooster) and two buff orpingtons. They laid regularly and production wasn’t super impacted and got 3-5 eggs daily. Late winter I started to notice that one of the girls was consistently laying a white with abnormally thin bumpy shell. Previously it was a nice light brown. After a month or so I noticed it wasn’t there anymore so I thought it had resolved. In that time I did end up having to treat for red lice and one girl had scaly leg mites at one point. Scrubbed down the coop and treated everyone. However at some point there were only 4 max eggs being laid daily the last two weeks. Started noticing white broken eggs that were laid while roosting. Gradually thickness was getting thinner. Today it is officially a soft shell. I provide egg shells and oyster shells. Supplement with scraps. Free ranged out of their run regularly up until the last month or so until I started limiting their time out unsupervised.
I’m officially at a loss and I don’t know how to search out these symptoms in any forum since I have literally no idea what to really look for because it’s a white thin egg issue that’s being laid on the roost over night. Just super worried I have an underlying condition I should be treating and afraid I’ll wake up to a super sick girl one day
Any ideas chicken lovers?
This was my first winter with my flock. Six Plymouth blue rocks(one is a rooster) and two buff orpingtons. They laid regularly and production wasn’t super impacted and got 3-5 eggs daily. Late winter I started to notice that one of the girls was consistently laying a white with abnormally thin bumpy shell. Previously it was a nice light brown. After a month or so I noticed it wasn’t there anymore so I thought it had resolved. In that time I did end up having to treat for red lice and one girl had scaly leg mites at one point. Scrubbed down the coop and treated everyone. However at some point there were only 4 max eggs being laid daily the last two weeks. Started noticing white broken eggs that were laid while roosting. Gradually thickness was getting thinner. Today it is officially a soft shell. I provide egg shells and oyster shells. Supplement with scraps. Free ranged out of their run regularly up until the last month or so until I started limiting their time out unsupervised.
I’m officially at a loss and I don’t know how to search out these symptoms in any forum since I have literally no idea what to really look for because it’s a white thin egg issue that’s being laid on the roost over night. Just super worried I have an underlying condition I should be treating and afraid I’ll wake up to a super sick girl one day
Any ideas chicken lovers?
