Recent content by MapleReach

Hi - Yes, another thread about thin-shelled eggs! We have a Black Australorp who is about 8 months old. Her first eggs (she hatched in late summer, started laying about 3 months ago) were very large, but her shells were chalky and bumpy and thin. Now the shells seem to be getting even thinner...

She is about 2.5 years old (we just got her a couple of months ago). She's a reliable layer, but when our three girls came to us her eggs were often broken and eaten by the other hens. At first we thought it was just pecking, but we've actually seen her eggs land on the end and dent or crack...

Hi - our Barred Rock's eggs are almost always dented on the pointy end (membrane not broken). Her shells are thinner than our other hen's eggs and her yolks break very easily. She eats the same food and they have plenty of oyster shell available. Also it appears her eggs are coming out pointy...

We are thinking it was probably a deer. A neighbor had a deer knock his fence down wile on the run...

PS - sorry for the type-os. Combo of finger typing and bad autocorrect.

Good thought. Hmm. There are bears up in the hills, but we've never heard of any coming down into our area. A cougar has also been spotted, but I think a cougar or bear probably would have done more damage. Note: the chicken feed wasn't eaten and the chickens weren't harmed and had probably been...

We have a coop with an 11ft like big enclosure I snide of a larger fenced area for our chickens. When we are away for any length of time we lock the chickens into the inner enclosure. We returned home yesterday to find the outside door at the end of the enclosure kicked in - both hinges broken -...