The laying of shell less eggs continues. At this point the egg looks like a normal yoke in a clear sack with a 3" long stem that looks like an umbilical cord. Most are layed from the roost but we have found a few in the nest box.
Due to an unfortunate combination of dusting in newly tilled heavy clay soil followed by wading at the bubblier I had to give both RIR's baths today to remove the giant chunks of dried clay from their butt and chest feathers. While I was bathing them I realized they are both slightly wheezy. They are not sneezing or having any nasal discharge, but maybe it's just that I just caught this early because I was bathing them?
Could the daily shell less eggs be related to a viral URI? The other hens don't have any URI symptoms.though, after 4 eggs a day for over a month, we have only been getting one egg a day for the past week, so they are all off laying right now.
just chiming in on this, as one of my young girls (started laying maybe 2 months ago?) is now laying soft-shelled eggs, always from the roost -- when i heard an egg song at 5am this morning before it was even light, i went down to the coop & found the third or fourth soft-shelled egg in a row on the coop floor directly beneath this one particular girl, so i know it's her -- i had been concerned that the flock was starting to egg-eat, but this was intact except "broken" by the fall from the perch.
wondering if you'd found any solution, or did your hen just improve with time? mine already eats layer feed with calcium plus has oystershell available, gets yogurt now and then, etc., and seems otherwise very healthy. she's a cream legbar/penedenesca cross.