I am only posting this question/comment since there are no pictures of shell-less eggs. One of my hens laid one yesterday. In the same nest, a malformed and broken one was found. Hard to be sure, but it seemed to have a soft area that totally failed. With 11 hens sharing 3 nesting boxes, I cannot be sure of who lays what. I have 3 production RIR's and 2 dominiques that I have never seen in a nest. All the others regularly sit in the nests but I usually get only 4 eggs out of 6 laying hens daily. Although I did get 6 a couple of days last week. All perfect and really hard shelled eggs. I do ramble, but I feed them scratch with layer pellets. I add some oyster shell to each feeder mixed in the feed. Fresh veggies each day. They all eat both veggies and feed. I suppose I will stop adding oyster to the feed and provide it separately as I read above. Thanks all and good luck.
The middle egg has only the membrane. Strong enough, as you can see, to hold things together, as it were. Could have probably eaten it but discarded it since I am a newbie with chickens and the things I don't know totally overwhelm the things I do.
The middle egg has only the membrane. Strong enough, as you can see, to hold things together, as it were. Could have probably eaten it but discarded it since I am a newbie with chickens and the things I don't know totally overwhelm the things I do.
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