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    Pekin duck laying soft egg shells/broken egg

    Hi all, Posting because I’m nervous and want to make sure I’m doing everything that needs/can be done. Our 1.4 yr old Pekin duck laid an extremely soft shelled egg the other day. You could hardly handle it without puncturing it. Today she laid what’s in the picture. Here’s the situation and...
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    Please help figuring best course of action for ducks laying softshell eggs!Thoughts on Calcium supplementation?

    I have 2 lady ducks laying eggs with soft shells. I messed up and forgot to put their oyster shells out when the started laying this winter..I had a duck get injured over the holiays that has been needing daily care and medication and when I started getting eggs I didnt even think about it..I am...
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    • calcium defeciency calcium gluconate softshell eggs
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    17 month old hens stopped laying/laying softshell eggs

    Hi fellow chicken peeps, I have a small flock of six hens--three, 17-month-old Road Island Reds, a 17-month-old Americana, and two six-month-old Americanas. The older girls started laying last summer and laid fine until mid-winter, then petered out for a while and started laying more...
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