laying issues

Hello, All! I'm hoping the amazing folks here can help. I took my girl, Thyme, to the vet a week ago because she was lethargic, not eating, and laying shell-less eggs. She is a 22 week old Buff Orpington and her issues started when she began laying about a week-and-a-half ago. She had a TON of...

Hello all! My duck is 7 months old and started laying on july 20. She was egg bound with her first egg and after that was laying normally. After her tenth egg, she started experiencing some worrying symptoms such as shaking, excessive panting, wings twitching (a bit spread out as well), raspy...

BACKGROUND: Hello. Back in September 2020, I posted about my very best chicken-friend, a now 2-year old EE named "Easter," who was on the brink of death from fighting egg yolk peritonitis. She had since miraculously recovered (miraculous with a long antibiotic treatment, crop massages...

I'm hoping someone might be able to help with an ongoing laying issue I've been having with my EE, who is just over 1 year old. When she first started laying, she had intermittent issues with laying thin-shelled and shell-less eggs, sometimes back-to-back. After a month or so, she seemed to have...

Hi again. I'm still new to chickens. I have 3. Hennessy, Henocide, and Murder Parade. They're all laying now. Ok in go the issues... buckle up I tend to ramble. Hennessy started laying first and didnt lay in the nesting box until I was able to catch her about to lay and put her in the box...

Hi All, I have 2 RI reds, 1 Black Star, 1 Fog horn and just added 2 young Malaysians to the flock We have a large coop with 5x8 floor space, 3 roosting bars and 8 nesting boxes. I have a 8x12 outdoor bird net covered run. I added the Malays in late August and all laying stopped. We also had a...

I have four Heritage RIR hens. I bought them last summer when they were about 5 months old, so they are now about 18 months old. I’m still getting what I consider to be medium size eggs (middle egg) at best. Another thing about them is that every two or three weeks or so I get one small egg that...