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Hi there, I wonder if someone could offer us some advice please. Over the last week or so one of our warrens has stopped laying daily, and only laid a couple of very white shelled eggs. She's normally very sweet and friendly, but for a couple of days became quite aggressive and has now become...

One of our lovely hens laid a massively elongated egg tonight and I wondered if anyone had any thoughts as to why? She seems perfectly happy and healthy so just curious really

Thanks for the advice - she seems perfectly happy and healthy and the eggs themselves are fine inside so will see how she goes :-)

Allen & Page free range layers pellets. Like I say they get a few trimmings from our allotment daily (mostly spinach, chard, etc) and a handful or corn maybe 2-3 times per week too

Yes that's what I thought, but I'm not really sure how she is getting too much calcium

This is the bottom of one of her eggs

Hi all, we got 3 lovely hens for our allotment about 2 months ago and they've settled in fine and are happy and laying well. We decided early on we needed an extra hen for their coop, so got another hen maybe 2 weeks later. Our first 3 took a few weeks to settle into laying but like I say all...