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I thought for the longest time that I had an egg eater who really really really like white leghorn eggs. After watching for a while, I finally found out what was going on. . . . One of my leg horns is laying thin eggs. Sometimes they are so then that they break when the other hens sit on it to lay their eggs. It breaks and the other hen ends up wearing it from chest to tail.
I have a marans that lays one of those wacked rubbery eggs every once in a while too. . . . Same thing, she lays it and somebody else gets on it and then it breaks and yuck is all over.
I don't know what I am going to do now - - - BUT I have figured out which two birds are laying the jacked up eggs. I am thinking about putting them in a separate pen so that they don't teach others to eat eggs. . . . Then they can lay all the jacked up eggs they want too. I am having troubles justifing a coop for onlu two girls though. .. . Still formulating a plan
Lisa,
I had that problem with one pullet when she first started laying. They were offered oyster shell in a seperate feeder, but evidently, this pullet wasn't eating any. On occaision, everyone, even the cockerels would dip into the oyster shell bowl, but not this dimwit.
So, she kept on laying the soft shelled eggs, from the roost, in the boxes, and on the floor. I finally just started mixing the oyster shell in with their feed. In about 2 days, the soft shelled eggs stopped! Now I've seen people say that doing this will hurt the roos, but let me tell you, I have spent quite a few hours watching them eat. The boys usually pic around the oyster shell, the pullets take it in. Even when I fed it seperately, the boys would occaisionally go over and gorge themselves on it, so what's the difference?? All I know is that by mixing it into the feed, all the pullets are now laying nicely shelled eggs!
Boy or girl this time? And yes, you know we'll need pics of both types of babies!
