Search results for query: *

She eats a bit sometimes - hard to say how much. She doesn't seem to like the shell grit or the pellets. Have tried boosting her diet with yogurt (not every day) and mixing treats in shell grit as a way of force feeding extra calcium. Might have to try a liquid/tablet calcium booster.

Thanks for the advice! Yeah I had read that soft shelled eggs can be a problem with highly productive breeds. I wouldn't have thought it would happen so soon though :( I've read it's not uncommon for backyard chickens to live 8-10 years. I don't mind so much about the drop in egg production - I...

Hi there, I’m based in Sydney (Australia) and I have two Lohmann brown chickens which are only about 1 ½ years old. They’ve both been perfectly healthy and laying consistently until now. One of them has been laying thin-shelled and soft-shelled eggs on and off for the past 7 weeks. Occasionally...