Whats wierd is my other 2 hens, the Ugly Step Sisters both of which are around 2, stopped laying after an episode of brittle shelled eggs. Frightful was laying perfectly normal eggs, which lasted 5 days, now shes dropping these brittle eggs during the night from her perch. Her fluffy bum feathers are matted. She let out a wet poop yesterday that was almost completely water. I cant think of that the problems is.
The hens are pretty healthy outwardly, they get lots of layer pellets in thier feeder, it never goes empty, I put calcium over the pellets and over thier grit bucket too. They seem to be perky and active, curious. They were wormed about a week ago with Wazine. I give them scratch and sometimes a piece of bread. I give them grass shavings I pick myself from our field as well as dandilion greens every other day or so. I give them hard boiled mashed eggs too about once a week. Today i gave them the base of a romaine lettuce head.
There has been an ongoing sniffle, but no discharge, no lethargic behavior, no impacted crops, no drop in appetite. I think its the dust from the DE I put in a few weeks ago. I have since cleaned out the coop entirely and laid in new shavings.
Right now they are all outside scratching in the run for worms because it rained last night. They are all eating and clucking and being chickens.
