Layed first eggs outside and they were soft looking and fleshy colored?

Birddog1148

Songster
11 Years
Mar 8, 2012
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Sandusky Ohio
So my chickens turned 19 weeks this past tuesday. They have been making noises that are not what I am used to hearing them make, kinda a Baaawwwwwwwwkkkkkk. I locked their outside door when I got home from work last night and no eggs in the coop. When I opened there pop door this morning I saw something and went outside to look at it. It looked like there were 2 things in their run, one looked like a partialy deflated egg, kinda small and fleshy colored, kinda like what a tomato looks like after its been through a freeze or two in the garden in the winter. And there was something else that looked like the first one but only partial. By the time I came back out with the camera they were gone, ate I expect. I have 6 chickens, 3 red ones, one Jersy Giant, and two Amerakanus?
 
I have been throwing about a cup of scratch out in the run for them a day, layer feed in their feeder, poultry grit in the quart jar feeder they used as chicks, How do I feed the oyster shells? They looked like fleshy soft shells.
 
To feed oyster shells just put them in a feeder and the birds will eat them free choice. Sounds like the eggs you got are just beginner eggs. They will get normal soon.
 
I can't wait for my girls to get old enough to start laying! Good info with the oyster shell. Is there a particular brand you all recommend?
 

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