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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: chetley on June 18, 2015, 06:04:36 am

Title: Eggs getting smaller
Post by: chetley on June 18, 2015, 06:04:36 am
 I am puzzled I have 8 hens and one cockerel . They started laying about three months and I had on average 5-6 eggs each day.Then they had a pause for a couple of weeks and eggs reduced to 1-2 a day. They have now started laying again but all the eggs are much smaller about half the size of previous ones ??
Title: Re: Eggs getting smaller
Post by: chrismahon on June 18, 2015, 08:37:26 am
A pause can be due to something that has distressed them, even as simple as locking them out of the coop accidentally, or excessively hot weather, or getting very wet. Small eggs can be due to a worm burden. Worth giving them a course of Flubenvet, if you can find some.
Title: Re: Eggs getting smaller
Post by: Kimbo on June 18, 2015, 03:28:15 pm
Or feed Marriages layers pellets with added Flubenvet as you will struggle to find small quantities of FbVet on its own