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MegMicheleW
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- May 26, 2025
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Question regarding your Ravioli girl. Do you give her 7 days of the calcium supplement every time you notice a soft shell? I also seen that i can get a liquid version of the supplement that i’m considering purchasing, do you know if too much calcium can be a problem? https://a.co/d/3pNKcyN@Eggcessive has the best advice! As far as getting her to take the calcium, the easiest way is to gently pull down on her wattles, this will open her mouth, pop the pill in, let go and she will swallow. It might take a few times to get it right, but don’t be afraid. Remember that they eat mice and stuff, so a large pill won’t be an issue to give whole.
I’m glad she is feeling better. She may not have another egg to lay, it just happens sometimes that there is more than one. I just wanted you to be aware of that is all
My Ravioli struggles on a pretty regular basis with laying soft eggs. I suspect she has a shell gland issue. She always has struggled no matter how much calcium I give her. Keeping the vitamin on hand has saved her life, I am certain of it. Although her shells haven’t toughened up, the vitamin also helps muscles contract and push the egg out.
Also, what do you do with the soft shell egg? Toss it, eat it, feed to the girls?
) for eating eggs. Turns out her eggs were just super soft and she would break them nosing at them and then eat them. She doesn’t eat hard eggs. Anyways I gave her two weeks of calcium every day after her first egg binding episode here bc her eggs never toughened up. That’s when I learned she just lays softer eggs no matter what so I do not anymore unless she has an egg binding episode with a very very soft one. Now I just give her about one week of calcium. She just lays a mix of soft and brittle shells, it is more her MO. She doesn’t seem to have a problem getting those brittle ones out but they break pretty easily in the nest.
