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Still Weak Eggs!! Help!

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8/15/12 at 6:49pm
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I have fed oyster shells, spinach and egg shells. The eggs are still weak from my 2 year old Barred Rock.

I have actually padded the bottom of the nesting box since I heard she may be standing up to lay her eggs. Regardless, the eggs are thin and cracked every day. She lays 5 times a week and they are all thin.

She does free range and I do give her garden and table scraps. She is on 16% feeder pellets.

My  younger hens have started laying really hard shelled eggs.

I've tried it all. I'm frustrated. Help!

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post #2 of 3
8/15/12 at 7:30pm

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Here's an article on thin shelled eggs that might give you some idea of why this is happening.  Hope it helps.  If I get a cracked egg occasionally, I usually just hard cook it and feed it back to them.

 

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/1/egg-quality-handbook/16/thinshelled-eggs-and-shellless-eggs

Owned by two old dogs (yellow lab and a big, red, fuzzy mutt) and four chickens (Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, and two Easter Eggers)
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Owned by two old dogs (yellow lab and a big, red, fuzzy mutt) and four chickens (Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, and two Easter Eggers)
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post #3 of 3
8/17/12 at 7:06pm
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unfortunately I think my hen has a deficiency.

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