soft shell

Hey all long time no see, 4 days ago my ducko pipsqueak laid a pretty nasty looking soft shell egg in the pool so I've been giving her daily calcium supplements since, but the next day I noticed it looked like another egg was in her chamber and after feeling it through her it is clearly another...

I have an eight and a half month old Buff Orpington (her name is Leeli) that is egg bound. She is panting and can barely stay awake. She can't stand up and doesn't have any balance. She is exhausted. I brought her inside and she passed some egg yolk. That confirmed my fears. We soaked her in...

I have an almost 1 year old ameraucana (Peach) that has laid three soft shelled eggs (a little bit of shell development) in the middle of the night. I found one last Tuesday (3/21) morning under the roosts, and that egg was supposed to be laid around 12 pm Tuesday, so it was laid hours early. I...

hi there, my duck Mango has laid a perfectly fine hard egg this morning. however this afternoon she’s laid a soft shell egg followed by another one less than an hour later. she’s 2 years this november so it’s not her first lay. she has also got a good diet, layer feed eggshells and mealworms and...

I've had suspected internal layer--2.5 y/o Barred Rock--that has a vet appointment Friday. She'd been doing well, though I'd noticed some hard swelling around her vent/lower abdomen, and that she spends time in the nesting box as if she's laying (but no egg). This all is on the tail of weird...

I’ve had a girl recently lay a bunch of soft shelled eggs and just found a wrinkled egg. I have an idea of who the suspect is but i’m not quite sure. It’s most likely my buff orpington who is 15/16 weeks and 4 days. I would assume that because she’s so young is why she’s having weird eggs but...

Hi all, This is sort of a two-part question... Laid an egg yolk? I have four female ducks housed together and today I found a perfectly formed egg yolk laid on the ground with tiny blood spots (though I have seen the blood spots in chicken eggs and I know it is usually not a cause for...

My 13 month old GLW has always battled recurring bumblefoot. She frequently has 1-2 booties on at any given time in the year. This past winter, she had a double bumble situation that came and went but never fully resolved. Unfortunately this means she's still getting the boots now that temps are...

My beloved ex-batt Major Maggie (the tiniest chicken who is the queen of the flock) is unwell. I discovered today that she had a soft-shell which had broken inside. With baths and lube and oil and cuddles I've finally got the shell out (with a lot of effort from her), but I dont know if its...

Hello, I have 4 RIR and 3 Golden Comet that are 21 weeks old. They began laying eggs July 4th (yay). They are on pellet Nutrena Nature Wise Layer Feed and have access to a bowl of oysters shells. However, I still find 1 to 2 soft/rubber eggs a day. Usually broken from either falling from the...

my almost 2 year old hen has laid 2 soft shelled eggs in a row (two separate days, not two in one day) and after laying these, she still acts like shes needing to lay but doesnt. she isnt typically a daily layer and i keep her on a natural diet but due to me recently moving had to get her...

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...

Hello, thanks to anyone who may help me figure this out. The issue is with a 5-month-old Austra White pullet. I have caught her several times lay a very soft-shelled egg in the middle of the coop floor; which promptly gets eaten. This has happened in the morning and in the evening. She is on a...

hi peeps... So I have a Cuckoo Bluebar and she just started laying. I was wondering if what she’s doing is typical. Last week she acted confused (in and out of the coop, sitting around puffed up, talking a lot), then overnight she laid two “eggs”— one was a blob of yolk and some shell-ish...

After brooding, which we broke up, my silkie has been dropping softshelled eggs every day. You notice she wants to be in a quite place for a while, tail pointing up and slow walking. (pain?) Then after an hour or so you find she has dropped a softshelled egg. After this she’s active and her...

Hi there chicken folk! I'm having a bit of a dilemma. I have a black australorp hen named Fanny who is five years old. Though she's about middle aged, she normally seems quite healthy and vibrant. Howeeeever, she has laid two soft shelled eggs recently, and she has also been seen having a bit of...

I have 4 red sex links and 3 Wynadottes. They are 18 months old. They molted a couple months ago. We had a very cold winter in Seattle. We feed Purina Layer Feed. We have Calcium Carbonate ‘grit’ but they dont appear to touch it all for weeks at a time. My problem: We are getting on a regular...

Hi! Both of my girls started laying this month. My first layer hlgive us great eggs. Her sister, who started about a week or two later, always had little sandy piles of bumps at tops of her eggs. So I switched their food to a 16% layer crumble. Chicky 1. still gives us great eggs. Chicky 2...

*****UPDATE*********** I am declaring myself officially the biggest idiot of the day. There was no lash egg at all. It was the ROOT OF THE HEAD OF A LETTUCE. I cut it open and then compared it to another lettuce head that was in my trash. Yep. A knawed up lump of lettuce root. Thank you all...

I have about 40 quail, and they are laying so I want to supplement with a little oyster shell because one of them was laying some soft shells. I buy the crushed shells but it seems like most of it is getting wasted because they can't eat it. So I've been using my super expensive food processor...