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I put the girl to rest today. First hen I've had to kill. :(

I tried crushing up egg shells and feeding it to her, but she doesn't want to have nothing to do with them either. She laid an egg later this afternoon and it;s the first one I would consider soft shell...almost balloon like and made a mess in the nesting box. Unfortunately I think where...

I guess the thing is that she doesn't appear diseased in any way. Very healthy active bird who is around 15 months old. None of the other hens (7 in total) seem to be catching it either. I've tried to make her eat oyster shell, but she doesn't seem interested in it. I thought about putting a few...

I hope so. She hasn't laid an egg today, so hopefully her body will take a day or 2 off and straighten this around.

adopted*

I don't know if she's always laid eggs like this. I just adopted 3 last week and wondering if she has something more seriously wrong with her. Debating on if I should (gulp) kill her before I get attached. She's a good bird and hasn't missed a day of laying yet, but of the 7 eggs I've gotten...

Debating hard if I should put her down....I'm afraid one of these days her egg is going to crumble inside her and possible make a painful death for her :(

I have one hen who lays abnormally large eggs and they have a thin brittle shell to them. My hens have layer feed and oyster shell readily available to them, and it's just one hen in particular who is laying these huge brittle eggs. Any idea on what I can do? Will her eggs return to normal...