I'm hoping this is an issue that will resolve itself but... figured I'd ask about it. One of my girls, Pipsqueak, started laying January 27. She hatched September 19 so she was just over 4 months when she started laying which seemed a smidge early, her older sister Bill Bill was 5 months old when she started laying. Anyway, back to Pipsqueak. Her first few eggs were small but I didn't think anything of that because she was young and just started laying. After about a week Pip's eggs were the same size as Bill's. Both girls have laid an egg every morning since they started laying. Bill actually laid two her first day, the second was a soft shelled egg, but since then it's a normal egg every morning. Over the past 2.5-ish weeks Pips has laid two eggs in one day 4 or 5 times. The second one is always soft shelled. She lays them almost exactly 12 hrs apart and they're smaller than normal eggs. The fact that they're smaller and have softer shells hasn't surprised me since she's laying them 12 hrs early. If I'm remembering correctly, there's usually a few days in between when she has a double egg day but now it's happened two days in a row and her egg this morning had a soft shell too. Well, nope, now she just laid another one. She laid two soft shelled eggs this evening, about 30 minutes apart. She has access to oyster shell 24/7...but I don't really think calcium is the issue since her eggs shells are nice and hard on days when she only lays one. It's these "bonus" eggs that are soft. I don't understand why she would be laying so many eggs in one day. I mean... she's up to 3 today! She doesn't seem to be in any sort of pain. Her vent area is nice and clean. Her belly doesn't feel weird, not hard or anything. She's just...the opposite of egg bound? She's been laying for almost a month, seems the links should be worked out by now doesn't it? I don't know. I worry about my babies. Anyway. She hatched from my white layer adults last fall so she's...white layer offspring. Not sure if her breed matters but I thought I'd go ahead and mention it.
Any thoughts on what could cause eggs to come so quickly?
Thanks!
Any thoughts on what could cause eggs to come so quickly?
Thanks!