Kim S,
Sounds like we have some of the same chicken troubles. I have been giving the girls milk products (yogurt and milk) about every other day. Today is the first day in weeks that my RIR layed a good rock hard egg in weeks. I'm wondering if she isn't eating much of the layer pellets since...
So the other odd thing happening with some regularity is my buff keeps dropping her egg on the poop shelf below the roost bar. Later in the day I will see her in the nesting box like she doesn't know she has laid.
Still haven't gotten a good egg from my RIR. Everyone seems very happy and...
I am going to get some fake eggs. Yesterday she laid a thin shelled egg that didn't break and didn't get eaten though it looked like it was pecked at. Today it was smashed and eaten again. I noticed another egg looked pecked at but they didn't get through the inner membrane. I have been giving...
Thanks for the milk tip! I have been giving oyster shell with no results. I am getting nervous because the soft shelled eggs are getting broken and eaten. So far they aren't breaking and eating the good eggs but I'm afraid it is only a matter or time. We have been treating for mites and it seems...