We have a small flock of Rhode Island Reds. Three hens and a rooster that are a year old. One hen has laid exclusively soft shelled eggs for at least the last 3 or 4 months. It's possible that she's never laid a normal egg but it's difficult to say for sure.
Most days she drops it from the roost. A few days a week she drops one in a nest box.
All hens are on layer pellets with available oyster shell. I've seen this hen eat the oyster shell but not often. We gave her calcium/vitamin D pills every day for a week on two different occasions. No change.
I doubt it's EDS as none of the other birds are having any issues and it's been so long that I'd expect it to have run it's course already.
She's otherwise healthy and active.
At this point I'm thinking it's a physical condition of some sort that she likely won't recover from. Is there anything else it could be?
Most days she drops it from the roost. A few days a week she drops one in a nest box.
All hens are on layer pellets with available oyster shell. I've seen this hen eat the oyster shell but not often. We gave her calcium/vitamin D pills every day for a week on two different occasions. No change.
I doubt it's EDS as none of the other birds are having any issues and it's been so long that I'd expect it to have run it's course already.
She's otherwise healthy and active.
At this point I'm thinking it's a physical condition of some sort that she likely won't recover from. Is there anything else it could be?