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I'm going to bow out of this thread now. @micstrachan I hope your hen recovers whatever course of action you decide on.:hugs

For me it's easy. I either take them off their perch at night or out of the tree they're roosting in. I don't know the weight of the lightest hen here. I'll have a check.

Do you have a picture of one of her eggs you can post next to a rule?

I think you could safely check for egg binding. She would need to be laying eggs smaller in diameter then say your forefinger. You can also use a thin flexible plastic tube. An obstruction such as an egg should be reasonably easy to notice when you tap it.

Currently we don't even know if there was a shell, how much if any remains inside the hen, if there is any yolk or membrane left inside or what the problems actually is. On the three occasions I had hens lay partially shelled or shell-less eggs no antibiotics were given. The hen who was 11 years...

You would need to be able to prove that a lack of calcium was the direct cause. Thousands of chicken keeprs feed their flocks with various types of all flock feeds which have varying levels of calcium. At what level of calcium would you consider such feeds to be safe for laying hens. The highest...

You're scare mongering.

Administering antibiotics as a preventative measure doesn't work and is often counterproductive. The antibiotic is indiscriminate so the good stuff gets wiped out with the bad and further weakens the hens natural immune system. Reproductive problems are usually terminal. It's a high profile...

Some evidence that an all flock feed with free availability of oyster shell, or some other calcium supplement produces shell less eggs would be good here. Do you have any?