Hi all,
Wondering if you have any advice about a hen laying small eggs. One of our Cream Legbar hens laid very well last year (we bought her as POL in Feb 2016), she gave us regular eggs weighing about 55g. Over the autumn she was a bit depressed, not going after corn at night when we put it down but eating pellets and scratching for grubs fine. We brought her into the house one night as she seem quite off but was happy as larry the next morning so went back.
She recently (tail end of last month) came back into lay but we've had a few eggs that have been smaller than her usual fair (~45-50g) which I thought maybe the winter has been hard on her and affected her or maybe she is just getting back into the swing. She laid a good sized egg the last couple days and I thought 'brilliant she is back on form' but today she has done a tiny 22g egg. We've never had an egg so small.
Is there something wrong with her that I can help her with or is this just her now? She seems young to be completely knackard, although she was one of the hens that the breeder was selling as she wasn't up to breeding standard so maybe this is related?
Dans