My blue Australorp laid a soft egg her very first time last fall. Then she was a reliable hard shell egg producer. Recently she will sometimes lay 2 eggs a day. The first one will have a nice shell the 2nd one doesn't. Usually there is only about a 12 hour break between the eggs being layed. This has happened 3 times in the last 2 weeks. Two of the times the eggs were not in the nesting box. Twice they were underneath her roosting perch. She has access to oyster shell. Her feeds is for laying hens. She gets extra oats and barley which have calcium and she has access to kale. So, she has access to calcium. She also gets daily probiotics in her water. She isn't molting at the moment. She does get to free-range during the day. But I don't know why she is laying her eggs so close together. Is this a sign of something more serious?
She did have some difficulties with 3 Brahma chickens that we had (they have since been rehomed). And so early on she wasn't growing as much as I assumed an australorp would grow. Since the Brahmas are now gone, even though she is only 10 1/2 months old she is finally putting on weight and looking nice and healthy, but I'm still worried why she would be laying 2 eggs a day. Should I be worried?
She did have some difficulties with 3 Brahma chickens that we had (they have since been rehomed). And so early on she wasn't growing as much as I assumed an australorp would grow. Since the Brahmas are now gone, even though she is only 10 1/2 months old she is finally putting on weight and looking nice and healthy, but I'm still worried why she would be laying 2 eggs a day. Should I be worried?