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I never even considered it a possibility that a young, healthy chicken couldn't produce a shell! The hybrid layers after a couple years, sure, but right from the beginning? Always a new chicken mystery to I guess. I can't tell these twins apart, so it's definitely not affecting her behaviour...

This is one of 6 my broody hatched last summer, and I'm going to have to separate her from her identical twin to find out which one it is. Ugh. I wish I'd figured this out before I sold her other 2 sisters in my attempt to be good and not let chicken math take over 🤦‍♀️

Wouldn't this kind of "friend", who guarantees a broken egg every couple days, increase the chances of egg-eating? I'm actually having the same problem - a new layer (also an ameraucana!) who produces nothing but softies. Often from the roost; occasionally in a nest, which then messes up all...