Shell-Less Egg

[azygous]

Just coming back to this thread and catching up.

Dorothy appears pert, perky and sassy and past her crisis. I think what she was experiencing is something I've observed in every hen I've seen lay a soft egg. And that's a sort of phantom sensation of needing to still lay an egg after passing a shell-less egg.

The hen will go back to the nest and sit sometimes for an hour without producing anything. Then she will go back to her normal routine. Almost always she will lay a normal egg from then on.

 

[casportpony]

So I should aim upward a bit?

In, up, and sometimes a little to the left. Note that the gizzard is also on the left, but it is much lower.

 

[micstrachan]

 

[micstrachan]

Oh, happy day!!!

 

[azygous]

Awesome! Dorothy rocks!

 

[Kathy Golla]

OH my gosh this is just too much for me this morning!
I love her clucking..so proud. Laying a good egg must have felt good to her!

 

[Kiki]

 

[micstrachan]

I came home to another shelled egg from Dorothy today. I’m trying to ease them bsck onto a 50/50 layer/all flock mix, but they seemed not to touch the pellets today.

 

[micstrachan]

@azygous I forgot to ask... she’s had calcium for four days. She’s a tiny thing and it seems like a big dose. When would you stop if she were yours?

 

[My hen house]

It seemed like Dorothy hadn’t laid an egg in three days. I did find one egg, but no shell, wedged/oozed in between the coop and the mesh door. I thought it was possible that the girls could only reach the shell and that the egg itself slid down. However, today Dorothy was very, very off. So I brought her inside, gave her a calcium citrate and left her inside with some heat. Well, this is what happened.

Like the video says, I’ll put her on calcium for a few days. But what do you think about administering antibiotics? EYP has already killed two of my birds.

I wouldn't worry to much I have chickens and they would all be laying just fine and I would just get a random shell less egg