Author Topic: Chicken laying shell-less eggs  (Read 2041 times)

laurelrus

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Quainton,Buckinghamshire
  • Hobby farmer
Chicken laying shell-less eggs
« on: March 06, 2016, 05:54:52 pm »
We have had 3 eggs in the last week that have no shell whatsoever.
I've Googled it and hope that it's just the last of our young hens has started laying and hasn't got the hang of it yet.
They have layers pellets, corn in the afternoon and plenty of crushed oyster shells.
Is there anything else that could be the cause or anything I should be giving them? I assume it's the Cream Legbar. She's around 8 to 9 months old and is the only one not tet laying.
Thanks very much
2 pygmy goats, 3 Ouessant sheep, 19 chickens, 2 donkeys, 2 Shetland ponies and 2 dogs

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Chicken laying shell-less eggs
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2016, 07:23:28 pm »
In my experience CL's start laying around three weeks earlier than most non-commercial breeds.   I'd expect an occasional shell-less egg from a POL, but not repeatedly.  If the eggs don't come right very soon I'd be inclined to identify then cull.

 

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