Soft egg shells - please help!xx

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My chickens were on antibiotics around feb/March for coccidiosis. They hvent layed in a while but the other day one of them layed an egg with no shell and now I just found the girlies doing something in their coop and found a soft egg shell. I'm not sure what to do as they have grit in their. It's a smaller, thinner type of grit so I'm going to get some oyster shell grit incase that's the problem. I'm also worried that the girls are eating the eggs and not sure what to do. Please help!xx
 
Oyster shell is given for the calcium, not for grit. Granite is used for that. (I've seen "oyster shell grit" in bags of oyster shell so I know this is confusing -- but the label makes no sense. Oyster shells aren't hard enough to be of much use as grit for grinding food.)

First thing is to add calcium. I never add it to their food, just as I don't grit, but I see that at least one source does (linked below.) Check out the links down the side of the page.

http://www.hyline.com/aspx/redbook/redbook.aspx?s=6&p=55

Any chicken will eat a broken egg. This does not mean they are egg eaters. Actually, a number of old time chicken keepers throw their dirty or damaged eggs on the ground for the chickens to eat, without developing their flock into a flock of eff eaters. I think this is much more likely to happen in an older flock, perhaps one that is also being shorted on some nutrient for one reason or another.
 

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