Another jelly egg!

[ginormous chicken]

My EE is laying quite a few jelly eggs! This makes 3 in 2 weeks. I don't know what to do. I feed pellet feed with oyster shell and corn mixed in. It is a local brand, that I feed. However, I started to mix that with Layina due to issues. I also throw oyster shells on the floor for them to peck at. I am noticing my chickens aren't really interested in pellets right now. Esp. this time of the year. There is so much to free range on grass, bugs etc. I am going to cut back on the scratch. I don't feed that much scratch Maybe 3 handfuls a day. (Small handfuls.) Also, I give them treats like carrot tops and beet greens. What am I doing wrong? Please help? Oh, my Maran also laid 1 jelly egg. I had none until 3 weeks ago. I did switch feed three weeks ago. I switched from Purina Layina to a local brand called Bar-ALE. Is that it? Should I go back to Purina? Please help!

Here are pics. of my jelly eggs. Basically, eggs with no shells.

 

[snowflake]

a lot of people have had this problem this year.. I have 2 hens laying jell eggs. I use purina layana ,with oyster shell, and very few scraps, Vitamin D is supposed to help. I have been giving banana peals. kefir, 2 times a week. trying to up protein as well as other If they are free ranging most of the time you should be OK, I think you are doing every thing OK. Don't know what is happening. have not had this problem in 2 years.
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[ginormous chicken]

Do I feed banana peels chopped into bits?

Seems odd, although I do admit chickens will eat just about anything. Reminds me of my yellow lab.

Does anyone else have any suggestion? Is it not enough vitamin D or not enough calcium or are they just over producing albumen and yolks without a calcium shell? I am really frustrated, if anyone else has anything to add let me know.

 

[ginormous chicken]

No one????

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

I have to limit treats to my flock because one has trouble with calcium. She never eats oyster shell either.

So when I give treats, I try to give high-calcium treats.

 

[Hensamongus]

I have not seen any like this photo but I have had an issue with soft shells. We started feeding the hens a little yogurt. They love the stuff. In fact, the hen in trouble would eat it right out of the spoon as we fed her. I figured a little for all the hens would not be a problem.

This is Lucy getting her dose of yogurt.

This is a few more eating the yogurt in from the treat tray!

 

[AinaWGSD]

Since the jelly eggs seem to have started around the same time that you switched feed, I would change feed again and see if that makes a difference. If you come up with a good answer, let me know. One of my EE hens lays eggs kind of like that, paper thin (or thinner) shells or no shells at all, sometimes a thin shelled egg wrapped in some more albumen and another membrane with a few grainy bits that are trying to be a shell. Except hers are more or less every single egg and they've been like that from her very first egg on. I think since she started laying in January she's laid ONE egg that had a completely normal shell, and even that one was on the thin side.

 

[epeloquin]

According to this website it could be another type of deficiency. I would automatically think it to be a calcium deficiency but it sounds unlikely. Well, hope this helps...

http://poultrykeeper.com/chickens/health/chickens-soft-egg-shells.html

 

[epeloquin]

It could be another type of deficiency...not necessarily calcium. Check this out...hope it helps.

http://poultrykeeper.com/chickens/health/chickens-soft-egg-shells.html

 

[Saltysteele]

not sure if it's the same in chickens, but vitamin D helps facilitate calcium absorption and utilization in humans.

sounds like a plausible idea to me

(trying vitamin D, that is)