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    I need help diagnosing a shell-less egg problem-PICS

    Update from the CT riverside backyard farm... Two days ago we stopped giving the chickens "junk food", like pasta and bread and other table scraps. I also cut down the scratch feed a little. The thought was that, since the alpha hen was laying shell-less eggs, perhaps she was getting too much...
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    I need help diagnosing a shell-less egg problem-PICS

    I have the same problem, but I am suspicious of another possibility. In my 10 hen flock, none have shown any symptoms of IB. But my alpha hen is also laying eggs with very little shell or no shell at all. My suspicion is that because she is the alpha, she gets to the food first. And we give...
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