anderstr196
Songster
they want to stress me out! If some may recall about two days ago I posted about soft, broken eggs.. yesterday I got nada, zilch from either one of my Phoenixes but they were both acting fine. Today about an hour after I let them out I heard Polly doing her “screaming” and went to look for an egg, yep, she gave me her typical small egg but this time it had smeared blood on it, Polly was the one doing fine so now I’m stressed but figured ok, that happens sometimes. I leave to go to TSC to see if they have the tylan 50 “just in case” I come home to two unhappy girls just wanting to stand still. 
I grab Phoenix and head inside to feed her some calcium and bath her in Epson salt. I start the water while she stands on the tub and she squats as I’ve seen her do to lay and out comes a yolk and white, no shell! 
Mind you these are my first chickens, EVER, so I’m following this sites advice. I hold her in the bath for about twenty minutes and get some calcium in her and wrap her up. I leave the room to get some yogurt (I put chia seeds on top so she couldn’t resist) I come back in and she is standing looking between her legs and there is another soft shell with the soft shell of the yolk she laid 30 minutes ago attached to it, and poop of course lol. I move the dirty towel and give her a fresh one to sit, which she does until I put yogurt and some feed next to her. You would have thought she was starving, she loved the yogurt and would shake the excess off her beak onto my glasses. Needless to say, she was back to her old self within minutes. Now it was onto my Polly and check her since she laid the bloody egg. I repeated the whole routine and she laid another egg, it was soft shell but another egg 
that was two in less then 24 hours. So as I’m getting her to eat the yogurt she gets up and walks away but I followed her to have her eat some. She stops and squats and out pops another soft egg, that’s THREE eggs from her today. She then eats all the yogurt and screams until I take her outside to her flock. They are both acting as nothing ever happened. I added pics of Phoenix and her two attached soft shells and her eating after the ordeal. The three eggs are Polly’s from today. Oh yeah, tylan is on backorder everywhere so I still have no antibiotics so I’m hoping all the extra calcium and the added lays today helped work out all the “new layer kinks” Edited to add... The whole point to this long post was a shout out to this site for all the tips that helped my girls today... I would have never known about epson baths and extra calcium if it wasn’t for my constant stalking on this site!!
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