Rural Gardening: Egg Issue, 1 by Lazy_Ladies

Lazy_Ladies wrote:
Hi All,

I know I've weighed in on numerous egg issues for others, but now I'm hoping you might do the same for me.

So Talula (a red spotted sussex pullet of about 6 months) started laying back in early November. She was doing great. Laying every day, maybe missing one day a week. Then she layed this HUGE egg compared to all her others and now seems to be having some trouble.

She's skipping more days than usual. We were gone Wednesday through Saturday evening for the holiday and there were NO eggs of hers in the carton that the neighbor was collecting. I just found an egg shell on the bottom of the hen house floor. its her's, but its really weak - like paper. I found another one like that a week or so ago.

So do you think she's eating them or do you think that she's laying really weak eggs that are being kicked (or laid) out of the box?

Edited to say: I just went out and made the best of my 10 last minutes of day light and after stirring around the deep litter in the coop, it appears as if there were about 4 more of these paper-shelled eggs. They are so close to the box, she could almost be in the box with her chicky-bum sticking out the wrong direction. Then we have the whole issue of Lacey not getting out of the box... darn broody cochin with no rooster and no babies to rear. ;-)

What can I do to help? More protein, oyster shells, ....

This message was edited Nov 30, 2008 4:59 PM