consistently getting soft shelled eggs

[JJSS89]

This isn't really helpful but the OP's birds appear to be Red Sexlinks. I never have soft egg problems until I had them. Then I got rid of them and the problems went with 'em.

 

[riverlane91]

Do you have any cracked corn available to them?? I had the same problem! Shell-less eggs! I put out a bowl of strictly cracked corn mixed with oyster shells and two days later we have hard eggs!

 

[misfitmorgan]

We feed layer mash, free choice oyster shells and whole corn daily sometimes greens or BOSS and we have been getting alot of rubber eggs.

The hens are production White Leghorn's(Hy-line 36) at roughly 24-25 weeks old. Egg production keeps going up and down, when we brought them home they were laying an egg or more a day..then after two days it went down to 2-3 eggs. We moved them to a new coop and production went back up to 16-18 eggs a day....then they started to molt. Production went down to 3 eggs day and is currently back up to 5-6 eggs a day but every few days we get rubber eggs still.

i think we are going to try vitamin D and see if it helps any.

 

[aart]

Do you have any cracked corn available to them?? I had the same problem! Shell-less eggs! I put out a bowl of strictly cracked corn mixed with oyster shells and two days later we have hard eggs!

This sounds like to kind of forced the oyster shell on them...mixing it with the corn get them to gobble some shell along with the corn.

 

[ammar khan]

to me your hens have some deficiency of calcium , it happens , no need to worry , just give them some diet high in calcium or some calcium syrups adding in water.
With in a week you will get a proper eggs IA ,

 

[DianaMallory]

Just give them time they will get right! Feed them layer feed. I don't use oyster shells I crush up their egg shells and feed them back to them. And I have noticed with my last flock I gave them a treat of oatmeal every morning and I wasn't doing that with this new flock, but recently started it again. It does help you get larger eggs. and they love it!

 

[TalkALittle]

Could it be an issue of not enough phosphorus? The calcium/phosphorus ratio has to be right. Animal protein like fish meal is a good source of phosphorus.

Perhaps the feed is deficient. Switching to a different feed from a different manufacturer would rule that out.

 

[misfitmorgan]

i figured out our problem i think.... i have an enitire flock of bantams who have no laid since i got them in october(well i got 6 mille fleur eggs months ago) so i told OH to throw them out to free range because i was not letting sit on their behinds if they were not laying eggs. They have been outside for 3 days and we have found 3 eggs...so i think in my case it is a vitamin D problem, the coop sits behind the well house and it get light late and dark early so maybe not enough sun in that location for them.

 

[Suzie]

i figured out our problem i think.... i have an enitire flock of bantams who have no laid since i got them in october(well i got 6 mille fleur eggs months ago) so i told OH to throw them out to free range because i was not letting sit on their behinds if they were not laying eggs. They have been outside for 3 days and we have found 3 eggs...so i think in my case it is a vitamin D problem, the coop sits behind the well house and it get light late and dark early so maybe not enough sun in that location for them.

Vitamin D3 is the sunshine vitamin...great observation!

 

[tonkatoy]

I had that happen from time to time but it wasn't a permanent thing. I think I've gotten maybe two over the last ten years. I think it happens and with older birds. If it's consistent I'd worry.