Need advise, please help

Shellyb

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So after trying to actually see who is laying I finally just got to see an egg being layed. Yeah how exciting. She stayed there for about 15 seconds after it dropped and when it did I thought it sounded like it may have cracked, but I wasn't sure. I thought that when she turned towards the egg she was going to check it out like look what I just did, but instead she broke it and started eating it. AAAHHH, I scooted her out of the nest and scooped it up. This was the second soft shell egg I found the other was two days ago on the coop floor. There was two eggs in the nest box right next to her that have been from the two I knew were laying. Will she start going after other eggs now too? Was it because she knew it cracked? What do I do now???? I'm so upset. I have been paranoid about this as it was and I get to witness it, great. Thanks for any help.
 
She's figured out what's inside. Every chicken will attack a broken egg.
Hopefully you can address the soft shell issue with some crushed oyster shells available to the hens at all times. If she starts breaking into unbroken hard shelled eggs, you may not be able to get her to stop......
 

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