genesis1981
Songster
- Mar 27, 2019
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I got two chicks this spring, we think they are somewhere between Sapphire Easter Egger and Blue Andelusion. One is quite ahead of the game, large and laying big blue green eggs. She’s so big we thought she was a roo initially. The other is very tiny/petite and sweet and she’s been consistently laying tiny light brown eggs. Then last week she started laying soft shell eggs at random times. They seem to be sometimes coming on the same days she lays her little he’s shell eggs! My husband and I observed her in the garden just fluff up and squat and lay one and all the hens came over and they all started eating it shell and all! Now she seems to go into the coop to lay the soft ones in the pine shavings which she then eats and eats some of the shavings too. I cannot monitor her all day to stop her from doing this. She’s very happy and normal otherwise. Eats her oyster shell and running around like normal. She’s 20 weeks old. So- what the heck gives? And what should I do?? Posting a pic of her next to another chicken to show how small she is. She’s in the foreground.