Great article, however when you have been giving your chickens access to calcium in a separate bowl and still get softshell eggs from two of your hens while the rest lay hard shell eggs, then what's next?
I concur as I too have seen one of my own chickens mourn the loss of their closest friend. She mourned for about 7 to 8 weeks and even then she was never the same. I also believe that the loss shortened her life because she died about a year later for no apparent reason.
