I have this one Isa Brown hen, Pricilla, who is 34 weeks old, she has been laying for 15 weeks. She started out a good layer, good hard shells, no problems at all.
Fast forward till, I guess start of November or there abouts and issues started.
Of a morning I kept finding a shellless egg under the roost, just the soft membrane and egg guts, She would then spend half the day in and out of the nest box trying to lay an egg.
On the days there was no egg under the roost, there would be either a really soft shelled blood stained egg or a hard blood stained egg. Also the eggs she lays vary from brown to a really light brown in colour. She probably drops about 3 eggs a week from the roost and lays 4 eggs a week in the nest box.
She is on a 17% protien layer mix, gets meal worms every second day, has access to shell grit, scratch mix on the day’s opposite the meal worms, wormed and is due for worming on 1/1/2020, dusted for mites and is due 1/1/2020. Has access to a grassed area for free range, has a huge area to roam/dig/dust about in during the day.
There are 4 other hens she lives with, they all get on really well and the others are laying fine with no issues.
When the issue first started, I started giving her a wet mash with ground up egg shell to toughen her eggs, thought she may have been lacking calcium, but over a month later, the issue is still there.
I have checked her rear and no blood or issues there, and she isn’t being picked on either.
Here is a picture of 2 of her 3 eggs from the last three days, when you rub it with a wet cloth, the red comes off, so it isn’t a defect in the shell, it is on the shell. These ones are quite a bit solider than what she usually lays, I didn’t put my thumb through them when I cleaned them off. The third egg was a crushed when I picked it up it was that soft.
She lays regular, doesn’t miss a beat.
Ok, so I think I have provided all the information needed, Any help would be great.
thanks
Fast forward till, I guess start of November or there abouts and issues started.
Of a morning I kept finding a shellless egg under the roost, just the soft membrane and egg guts, She would then spend half the day in and out of the nest box trying to lay an egg.
On the days there was no egg under the roost, there would be either a really soft shelled blood stained egg or a hard blood stained egg. Also the eggs she lays vary from brown to a really light brown in colour. She probably drops about 3 eggs a week from the roost and lays 4 eggs a week in the nest box.
She is on a 17% protien layer mix, gets meal worms every second day, has access to shell grit, scratch mix on the day’s opposite the meal worms, wormed and is due for worming on 1/1/2020, dusted for mites and is due 1/1/2020. Has access to a grassed area for free range, has a huge area to roam/dig/dust about in during the day.
There are 4 other hens she lives with, they all get on really well and the others are laying fine with no issues.
When the issue first started, I started giving her a wet mash with ground up egg shell to toughen her eggs, thought she may have been lacking calcium, but over a month later, the issue is still there.
I have checked her rear and no blood or issues there, and she isn’t being picked on either.
Here is a picture of 2 of her 3 eggs from the last three days, when you rub it with a wet cloth, the red comes off, so it isn’t a defect in the shell, it is on the shell. These ones are quite a bit solider than what she usually lays, I didn’t put my thumb through them when I cleaned them off. The third egg was a crushed when I picked it up it was that soft.
She lays regular, doesn’t miss a beat.
Ok, so I think I have provided all the information needed, Any help would be great.
thanks
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Could I do the rest of the fish? Like tuna, sardines ect?
