shrimpsilkies
Songster
- Feb 1, 2020
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One of my Italian coturnix hens who is too good of a layer for her own good (1 a day since early May) just quit laying. However feeling her vent/belly area she still seems to have an egg there for the last two or three days. Usually when I pick them up in the morning their belly has a firm lump there where that day’s egg is waiting to be laid. However hers feels soft-shelled or something, there’s no shell feeling when I press gently, and it’s felt this for 2 days. She gets plenty of oyster shell and their gamebird breeder pellets have some calcium in them, none of the other birds have any problems in the same conditions and she didn’t for several months until now.
Any ideas? She also isn’t acting that odd, not straining to lay and still eating/pooping as far as I can tell. She does sit in one place a little more but it’s also getting colder here and many of them are a little more sedentary.
Any ideas? She also isn’t acting that odd, not straining to lay and still eating/pooping as far as I can tell. She does sit in one place a little more but it’s also getting colder here and many of them are a little more sedentary.