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chetley

  • Joined Jun 2015
Eggs getting smaller
« 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 ??

chrismahon

  • Joined Dec 2011
  • Gascony, France
Re: Eggs getting smaller
« Reply #1 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.

Kimbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Anglezarke, Lancashire
Re: Eggs getting smaller
« Reply #2 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
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