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That is the thing...sometimes you can't resolve it. It depends on why they are having an issue. Just straining to lay is not necessarily a problem. It is a lot of work to lay an egg, so they are going to strain a bit and breathe heavy to get it out. However it shouldn't take hours to lay it...

Yes, after one week I did start to see some improvement in the quality of the egg itself. Over the next month, her time spent in the nest box pushing the eggs out was shorter as well.(She would sometimes spend 2 hours laying an egg) Because the shell takes the calcium right from the bird at the...

The straining would come from the egg being too soft to pass. When the muscles contract to push an egg thru, if the egg is soft, it is not going move quickly. This hen that I have will grunt and groan loudly trying to pass some of her eggs. In no way is she calcium deficient what with the oyster...

It may not be as simple as a calcium deficiency. I have a hen with similar issues....laying soft shelled eggs, ones without the shell entirely or funky shaped HUGE looking eggs, going back to the nest box as you have described, etc... I finally turned to my poultry vet and he says that genetics...