One of our flock is laying mostly soft shell eggs, with the odd ok one.
2 year old light sussex.
Her eggs have always had fairly thin shells but she laid in the nesting box and they were all good.
She has been a great layer, started laying last winter and laid right through the winter we have just finished and is now spring time here.
The other 3 have just started up again after a winter break and she has stopped, going from an egg a day she had a break for a week or so and now it's been 3 soft shells a week and maybe one ok. The soft ones are all under the roosting bars and not in the nesting box so I assume they are coming out overnight.
They are all on layer feed with access to oyster shell. The other 3 in the flock lay eggs that are perfect.
I have always been worried that this would happen eventually to her with her regular shells being weak. Is there any chance this could be temporary and she might bounce back? Maybe laying through winter has taken a toll?
Otherwise I'm not sure what to do with her, we can't have a passenger and the mess of eggs in the coop is an issue too..
Appreciate any thoughts on this...
2 year old light sussex.
Her eggs have always had fairly thin shells but she laid in the nesting box and they were all good.
She has been a great layer, started laying last winter and laid right through the winter we have just finished and is now spring time here.
The other 3 have just started up again after a winter break and she has stopped, going from an egg a day she had a break for a week or so and now it's been 3 soft shells a week and maybe one ok. The soft ones are all under the roosting bars and not in the nesting box so I assume they are coming out overnight.
They are all on layer feed with access to oyster shell. The other 3 in the flock lay eggs that are perfect.
I have always been worried that this would happen eventually to her with her regular shells being weak. Is there any chance this could be temporary and she might bounce back? Maybe laying through winter has taken a toll?
Otherwise I'm not sure what to do with her, we can't have a passenger and the mess of eggs in the coop is an issue too..
Appreciate any thoughts on this...