My red sexlink, Sofie, is consistently laying white banded eggs followed by slab-sided eggs. I know that it's result of two eggs entering and making contact with each other in the shell gland pouch, but i'm just not sure if I can do anything about it. She does this all time and it seems like it's a pretty stressful event for her to go through.
About 3 months ago she had a little accident, which caused the back-end of her comb to get sliced off. It was a pretty clean slice that took about 20% of her overall comb. I isolated her for a couple of days just in case the other chickens might decide to pick on her, but everything has been fine in that area. Everything healed just fine, but now she's laying these weird eggs. It started a couple of weeks after the accident in a roaring heat wave, but now the temps have dropped into the high 70's and low 80's and she's still laying these odd eggs. She seems very healthy otherwise though. She's my most tenacious hen and nothing ever seems to slow her down, except when she trying to lay. She gets all puffed up and stands in 1 spot out in the yard until she lays her white banded alien egg, then about 12-16 hours later she will lay the slab-sided egg.
I'm concerned for Sofie but i'm not really sure if there is anything that I can do for her. If there's a way to get her to stop laying altogether, then I would be totally fine with that. I would rather her not lay at all than have her stress herself out like this all the time. Any suggestions or remedies?
About 3 months ago she had a little accident, which caused the back-end of her comb to get sliced off. It was a pretty clean slice that took about 20% of her overall comb. I isolated her for a couple of days just in case the other chickens might decide to pick on her, but everything has been fine in that area. Everything healed just fine, but now she's laying these weird eggs. It started a couple of weeks after the accident in a roaring heat wave, but now the temps have dropped into the high 70's and low 80's and she's still laying these odd eggs. She seems very healthy otherwise though. She's my most tenacious hen and nothing ever seems to slow her down, except when she trying to lay. She gets all puffed up and stands in 1 spot out in the yard until she lays her white banded alien egg, then about 12-16 hours later she will lay the slab-sided egg.
I'm concerned for Sofie but i'm not really sure if there is anything that I can do for her. If there's a way to get her to stop laying altogether, then I would be totally fine with that. I would rather her not lay at all than have her stress herself out like this all the time. Any suggestions or remedies?
