New to forum, new to chickens and boy am I going to need help!

[Melanie9565]

Hi! I'm new to the whole raising chickens community and I started with 4 various 1 week old chicks which are now 5 months old! Everything was going to fine and I thought "yeah. I got this!" until..... This I have an Orpington, a Bard Rock, an Amercauna and a Cochin. The buff has been laying for 2 weeks consistently and hard shells. The Bard Rock dropped 2 eggs in one day a couple of times so I added oyster shell to their food. 2 days ago and today there were 2 virtually shell-less eggs laid but I'm not sure who (not the the Orpington) laid them. Is there anything else I can do? Is this a young layer thing going on?????

 

[sourland]

Are you feeding a layer feed? Sometimes pullets take a while to stabilize the egg laying process.

 

[BuffOrpington88]

Hi and welcome to BYC! Sounds like a nice flock! Young layers will occasionally lay weird eggs, that should mostly stop as they get older. As for the two eggs in one day, an egg takes 25 hours to form, so every so often they will skip a day or lay two eggs in one day. You can also post in Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying and folks there should be able to help out. Thanks for joining us!

 

[redsoxs]

Greetings from Kansas, Melanie, and . Great to have you aboard! You've come to the right place for help - BYC is awesome.

 

[Book Em Danno25]

Greetings from South Dakota and

!! So glad you joined the flock.

 

[Melanie9565]

Laymash....is that the same thing?

 

[Melanie9565]

Thank you so much. I will check out the other site. There's so much to learn! But I love my girls!

 

[drumstick diva]

You can also put out a container for crushed oyster shell - if a hen needs more calcium she will take it as needed.

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Welcome to BYC! I'm glad you joined us!