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They're mid-transition to layer feed (so maybe 60/40 layer/grower). They also have oyster shell free choice. My other four pullets lay eggs with VERY strong shells. My EE is much smaller than them, and doesn't have the same interest in the oyster shell as far as I've observed. These two back-to-back softies are her first eggs, or at least within her first week of laying. They're very pale blue.What are you feeding?
I agree with @azygous I would give extra calcium. I usually direct dose with poultry vitamins for a couple of days too. Amoxicillin may be helpful since the membranes were not intact. Check with your local Tractor Supply to see if they carry in store any Fish Mox (Amoxicillin). Mine does, but some states/stores don't.
If they have it, you can use that to help fight infection. Dosage is 57mg per pound of weight given orally 2 times a day for 7 days.
https://hencam.com/henblog/2015/08/a-laying-glitch/
I'm having a new layer with egg issues, also. I can't stress enough how important calcium therapy is to combating this double egg thing. I use calcium citrate from Walmart and I believe it's around 600 mg. It has D 3 added. It's worked in every instance to reset a hen's egg laying after she was laying two eggs in the same 25 hour cycle, and other egg issues as well.
The new layer I have with the issues is a five and a half month old Blue Andelusian. She began with a dramatic egg every day for about two weeks, then stopped. One morning I found an egg membrane under her perch, and it may have had hard lumps of pus in it. It was encrusted in sand so it was hard to see.
I dosed her for two days with calcium citrate and she began laying again. She was in the nest today, but didn't lay an egg. I will start her on the calcium again tomorrow.
Another older hen, a ten-year old SLW, had an egg stuck inside her two months ago that had ruptured and she was trying so hard to evict the remains she suffered a vent prolapse. Again, the calcium got her through her ordeal, helping her pass the egg remains after five days of suffering. She was also on an antibiotic during this period to head off EYP. I'm happy to report she's fully recovered and is her lively old self again. And she's laying the occasional shell-less egg from her perch, but none has ruptured inside her to date.
Calcium tablets should be kept handy in the coop and given to any layer the second any type egg issue is detected. They really work.
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This is really heartening. Thank you. We thought about getting her a flock of polishes so she could have her odd gal group. Right now she luckily has the lower rung girls to hang out with (the two non-layers, our EE and BO). They are always together. I think her body matured faster than her mind and she is not ready to be one of the big girls.
Also, so far she always has a choice roosting spot every night. I'm hoping with time things may even out okay. And if not... We have an excuse to get more chicks.
Lol that made me feel better. Dingy as doorbells sums up Darla (the OG "issue bird" from this thread). I hope you're right. As I've said my EE is particularly close to my heart.You're welcome. I hope she settles in, new chicks or not. It could very well be she is just a bit cattywampus at starting to lay, but not being mentally there yet. Some of my new layers this spring seemed to be going through a "what the heck is happening" phase at first. I have 3 Welsummers coming to the point of lay and they're dingy as doorbells. At this point nobody is home upstairs if ya get my meaning so it will be interesting when they start laying. Hopefully the hormones will kick in mentally, too.