That is the same feed I was giving my girls. Ask if they have the feed with the oyster shell inside the pellet. It doesn't have cracked corn in the mixture, but you can always mix the pellets with scratch if it's important to you that they get snacks. :) The pellets look exactly the same (so...
I noticed that all my girls were picking out the oyster shell and dropping it into the sand. I had a huge pile (almost 2 cups!!) of oyster shell sitting under my automatic feeder. In my mind, this explained why the girls weren't getting enough calcium in their diet. I switched to a pellet that...
I'm sorta in the same boat. My RIR is continously laying soft eggs. The few times they we're hard, they had weird bumps and grit to the shell. My husband was concerned that the girls were eating the sand we had laid down for them.
While I gather it's some what normal, I still wonder if there's...