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    Sleeping in nest boxes and broken eggs

    Cheers for your advice! They get grit, protein etc. Their perches are high (ish). Will try closing the boxes off at night and I have read that putting golf balls in their nest can stop them eating eggs. It is nearly summer here so they are not moulting. We think it just one chook doing the...
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    Sleeping in nest boxes and broken eggs

    Hi everyone! I live in New Zealand and own 4 hens, two brown shavers and two light Sussex. They are normally very good girls and lay lots of eggs! Lately we have been finding egg goo in the nest with no shell and sometimes a broken shell and goo. We thought we might have rats but it doesn't fit...
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    Wrinkled eggs

    One of my girls (light sussex) is laying these weird corrugated wrinkled eggs. The shells are hard not soft but all munted! Is it disease, or lack of something? And are the eggs ok to eat? Can someone help me? Cheers
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