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Oh yeah, about the egg shells, If you rinse them well and crush them up really fine, they should be okay. Remember though that the bird needs more calcium than the shells she roduces will provide. Just make sure they are really fine and don't look like egg shells any more or they may get in the...

I just put a bowlful in and they seem to eat the right amount on their own. I put in "Calcium chips" as well as "grits" in two seperate bowls. My guys also free range on the lawn when the weather is nice and then they pick at a spot on the lawn where I accidently spilled some grits.

Just an update: It must have been a calcium deficiency. I have been giving them a scoop of the oyster shell and the calcium chips every few weeks as they peck it up and the eggs and eggshells have been fine, just gorgeous! Well...until winter arrived and the days got shorter! Now no eggs until...

Here's a really bad photo of the egg. I kept it and blew out the contents and dried it.

Thanks for all the input! I lost one of my hens, a year old white bird that I think was the one laying the strange eggs. The others are laying much better eggs now that I've switched to the egg layer pellets. No more bumps or wrinkles. I also got a bag each of calcium chips and grits and they...

I looked through the past posts and didn't see anything on this topic. For about a month or so my very reliable chickens have been laying wrinkled eggs. Well, the shell is wrinkled. One even had a big blob of shell coming off the end of one egg that got folded! Of 3 eggs every day, one seemed to...