Chicken skips laying several days, then lays multiple eggs

[TeriyakiTheChicken]

I have an Easter Egger, about a year and a half old who has been laying for a while now. She has recently started skipping one or two days of laying and then laying two it three eggs in a day, either all softshell or only one is normal. Some of the time the egg bursts on the way out. She lays them all in only an hour or two and then proceeds to eat the yolk. What do I do, and is there any way to make it to where she stops laying or slows down her production?

 

[aart]

I have an Easter Egger, about a year and a half old who has been laying for a while now. She has recently started skipping one or two days of laying and then laying two it three eggs in a day, either all softshell or only one is normal. Some of the time the egg bursts on the way out. She lays them all in only an hour or two and then proceeds to eat the yolk. What do I do, and is there any way to make it to where she stops laying or slows down her production?

How long ago, in days or weeks, did this start?
Any others in your flock having trouble laying?
What all and how exactly are you feeding?
Are you using supplemental lighting?
Has she molted yet this fall/winter( if you live in the northern hemisphere)?

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[TeriyakiTheChicken]

She's had this problem for about three weeks to a month, we don't have any other chickens, she eats standard chicken/duck feed and forages around the backyard, as well as stealing our food sometimes, we aren't using any supplemental lighting, but she lives mostly indoors (she sleeps and lays inside, as well as coming in periodically throughout the day), and she didn't molt yet.

 

[Chicken boy 1156]

I was just reading this.. did you just said she got some of your food? What kind of food was it, some food can be harmful to chickens

 

[aart]

She's had this problem for about three weeks to a month, we don't have any other chickens, she eats standard chicken/duck feed and forages around the backyard, as well as stealing our food sometimes, we aren't using any supplemental lighting, but she lives mostly indoors (she sleeps and lays inside, as well as coming in periodically throughout the day), and she didn't molt yet.

What kind of "chicken/duck feed" (brand, model, protein and calcium percentages)?
Given her living indoors, I'm not surprised her laying is off kilter as she's not exposed to 'normal' temps or lighting.

 

[TeriyakiTheChicken]

What kind of "chicken/duck feed" (brand, model, protein and calcium percentages)?
Given her living indoors, I'm not surprised her laying is off kilter as she's not exposed to 'normal' temps or lighting.

M-G Feed, can't find calcium or protein percentage on it

 

[MysteryChicken]

M-G Feed, can't find calcium or protein percentage on it

https://www.m-ginc.com/mg-poultry-feeds

 

[Mrs. K]

You really cannot change laying. Unless she is not getting any calcium? Calcium might help. But I would not really expect this bird to live a long time. Did you say you only have this chicken? And that you keep the chicken in a people house?

Chickens do tend to do better out side in the sunlight and fresh air with other chickens.

 

[TeriyakiTheChicken]

We also have four ducks, three of which live outside and one which stays inside at night and hangs out outside mostly during the day, like the chicken does. The chicken hangs out with them and often seems to think either they are chickens or she is a duck. The chicken and inside duck ate free to come and go as they please, unless there is some sort of danger.