Hello, this is my first time posting, so I’m sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but I spent a lot of time searching and didn’t find this specific issue.
We currently have 5 hens, after losing 3 to foxes this year. They free range in our yard all day and are locked up at night. We feed them a high quality complete layer feed. They are a little over a year old, I have one ameraucana, two RIR and two silver laced Wyandottes.
My issue is that the eggs from all but the ameraucana are suddenly missing the thick part of the albumen, the part that the yolk sits on top of. They are not especially runny, I’ve had runny eggs before but this is different. The ameraucana was broody and then molted, and once she started laying again her eggs were perfect. The others are all in various stages of molting, could this be the problem? This is our first flock, so I have no basis for comparison. We are only averaging about 1-2 eggs a day from 5 chickens, so they are definitely not old eggs.
We currently have 5 hens, after losing 3 to foxes this year. They free range in our yard all day and are locked up at night. We feed them a high quality complete layer feed. They are a little over a year old, I have one ameraucana, two RIR and two silver laced Wyandottes.
My issue is that the eggs from all but the ameraucana are suddenly missing the thick part of the albumen, the part that the yolk sits on top of. They are not especially runny, I’ve had runny eggs before but this is different. The ameraucana was broody and then molted, and once she started laying again her eggs were perfect. The others are all in various stages of molting, could this be the problem? This is our first flock, so I have no basis for comparison. We are only averaging about 1-2 eggs a day from 5 chickens, so they are definitely not old eggs.