First week laying and acting weird

GoChick

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Sep 16, 2010
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One of my pullets just started laying. I feed them layers feed, have oyster shells available all the time, treats are mostly BOSS but sometimes bread, yogurt, and leftovers.
They free-range most of the time, so they do have access to greens. However, the pullet that just started to lay (a Barred Plymouth Rock) has all of a sudden this desperate look on her - when I went to lock their coop, I opened the door to make sure all 6 were inside, and she just jumped out and ran away and dashed to the compost pile, and found some crushed egg shells - and this, after dusk!!! so I guess there is something missing from her diet - maybe more calcium?

So far, the 5 eggs she's layed have beautifull hard shells.

Have you seen this behavior before, when they start laying? What can I do to supplement her diet? As I said, she has free access to oyster shells.

Thanks!!
 
thanks - just crushing the shells are easier than having to bake them as I read on some postings here... she'll be getting her shells back today!!
 
I have noticed with my hens that occasionally (not anymore but when they first started laying) there is an egg that has a soft shell or no shell at all. Then the shells are hard and normal after that.

I just call these occurrences "oopses" in the egglaying process. Back to normal tomorrow!
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Make sure you make those shells unrecognizable as eggs so they don't start eating their eggs.
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