2 Soft Shell Eggs in a Row?!

[Mother of Chaos]

Another thought: be sure that if you have to give calcium supplements, they also contain vitamin D3. (Most do.)

D3 is important for the body to absorb and use calcium.

This link from Johns Hopkins (human medicine) has more info:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/vitamin-d-and-calcium

 

[SJsChickies]

Another thought: be sure that if you have to give calcium supplements, they also contain vitamin D3. (Most do.)

D3 is important for the body to absorb and use calcium.

This link from Johns Hopkins (human medicine) has more info:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/vitamin-d-and-calcium

This is the one I’m giving her so hopefully it’s enough. She just dropped 2 soft shelled eggs in the run again this morning What is wrong with her!? She’s had 10 days of the calcium over the last 11 days. She’s been on layer feed since Thursday too. And always, oyster shells on the side.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

With multiple soft shelled eggs in a day, it sounds like her system is releasing ovarian ova too frequently for them to acquire a healthy shell.

She’s been laying for a month, correct? There’s a very good chance that her system just hasn’t gotten into full synch yet. Keep an eye out for signs of a retained egg, and give her time.

It’s obviously not the same thing, but when many girls first start menstruating, their periods are all over the map.

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[SJsChickies]

With multiple soft shelled eggs in a day, it sounds like her system is releasing ovarian too frequently for them to acquire a healthy shell.

She’s been laying for a month, correct? There’s a very good chance that her system just hasn’t gotten into full synch yet. Keep an eye out for signs of a retained egg, and give her time.

It’s obviously not the same thing, but when many girls first start menstruating, their periods are all over the map.

Yes she laid her first egg July 30th so exactly a month. I hope that’s just it. She looks miserable when she lays them. Usually looks better after they come out. Today she still looks sad and mopey and is just standing around even after she laid them.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Yes she laid her first egg July 30th so exactly a month. I hope that’s just it. She looks miserable when she lays them. Usually looks better after they come out. Today she still looks sad and mopey and is just standing around even after she laid them.

Poor girl. I hope she gets back in synch soon!

 

[SJsChickies]

Poor girl. I hope she gets back in synch soon!

I really hope so too. I feel helpless. I thought she was getting better and now seems like there’s no change.

 

[dbblondee]

I've had a rash of soft shell eggs this summer from not only my new layers, but my 1+ year old girls as well. Before we got the new pullets the older bunch had been on layer pellets, but still with oyster shell on the side. They never had soft shell issues until about 2 months of being on flock maker crumbles. Anyway, I ended up buying some of the flaked oyster shell vs the crumbled. They have been eating that better and our soft eggs issue seems to have resolved . Also, I sprinkled some around on the ground as well as putting it in the same dish and finally saw them eating it. So what I have learned at least from my flock is....
Flaked is greater than crumbled oyster shell, and oyster shell on the ground is superior to it in a dish dang chickens.

Great idea! Since I'm having the same issue, I will get flakes!

 

[SJsChickies]

Little update. Since she dropped the last 2 soft shelled eggs, she took the next 2 days off. Which I was actually grateful for. Poor thing has been THROUGH it. But since then she has laid 2 beautiful perfect eggs in the laying boxes! I have not given her any more calcium citrate either! I hope she continues this way cause she is in such a better mood every day!