Another jelly egg!

[maliawolfer]

Imagine my surprise when I reached into the nesting box and discovered my first "jelly egg"! I immediately looked on the forum to find out about it. The oyster shell worked wonders the very next day.

 

[Shunky]

Try this. When you eat their eggs, save the shells. dry them out, then crumble them up and feed it to them. It makes their egg shells get harder. I really helped my chickens. You could drop an egg on the ground before we did that, then now you can throw one of their eggs onto the hard packed dirt and they barely ever break open. Seriously! It's funny.

Hope that helps!

 

[sadies chicks]

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I like to do cottage cheese mixed in with the yogurt....give them something to grab on to

my girls aren't too fond of yogurt by its self

 

[TheSpiceGirls]

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Did you resolve your soft shelled egg issue? I'm currently feeding my girls Nutrena but they show very little interest in their feed. I picked up a small bag of Bar-Ale mini pellets today and gave them a handful and they loved it. So I was thinking of switching but I'm curious what you decided. I don't want to start having issues with them. Although, the Bar-Ale has a higher calcium content than Nutrena.

 

[highaltitudehen]

I have a Rhode Island Red who lays a jelly egg every day. She never used to do this, and I feed oyster shells, plus the washed and dried shells of their eggs, so it seems like calcium shouldn't be an issue. The feed I use hasn't changed either....could it be something that happens to the hen as she ages?