impacted egg

Hello all, I hate to make a first post for this reason, but one of my girls passed this morning, and I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me figure out why? (I know nobody is going to be able to tell me exactly what happened, I’m just curious and pretty concerned. I wasn’t home over...

My one year old golden comet Dixie, always had a small calcium deficiency, and she is a larger hen. She has access to oyster shell, and I give my hens booster vitamin once a week to all my hens in their waterer. Yesterday, I found a blown out soft shell egg and couldn’t figure out who laid it...

I have a young Australorp hen, born in June, who has been laying for about a month. She laid a normal egg yesterday, and her poop this morning was fine. However, this morning, she was slow to leave the coop and is doing the walk like a penguin thing and squatting. After reviewing the forum...