Not enough calcium?

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Scratch and Peck is the company, I order it from their website I don't buy it locally. I'm not invested in the "organic" label, I simply want to feed my animals the best bio appropriate food possible with the least amount of processing. I've compared S&P feed to Purina and others, and I don't see anything that suggests S&P isn't complete, other than it doesn't have soy and the other additives that I don't want in my birds feed.
 
BirdHead said:
How old is she? And I completely understand not wanting to change feeds, it's a thing. mine has went through four different brands and they all react different to them, like they'll devour my conditioner but look at the feather feed like it's not even there. Hell, they even prefer regular feed over my scratch grains which is awesome to me.

My last batch didn't like the reg feed as much as scratch funny and sorry for ranting!
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She's around 3 maybe 3.5 years old, so it might just be from her getting older, I suppose. She was molting a bit too, so she just might need some extra calcium. She's a good layer and she's never had any issues with soft eggshells, so I'm going to assume it's just a fluke. She's been eating the same feed since I got her at 6 months. She did have the prolapse vent issue maybe 3-4 months ago, but i treated it with some Vetericyn and it went away.
 
As MOC and LOM have said, soft shell eggs are not always a sign of not getting enough calcium. Your feed's label looks pretty complete with calcium and phosphorus, etc. and 16% protein. Infectious bronchitis in a flock, sometimes mild enough not to notice, can cause soft shell eggs and a variety of abnormal shells. Many hens prefer crushed egg shells fed back as treats rather than the oyster shell. New layers, old hens, and hens with injuries may lay soft shelled eggs. My best layer was attacked by a dog, and after several months of healing, she resumed laying daily, but all eggs for the last 18 months have been shell-less or very thin shelled, which are always broken by the time I get them.
 
Eggcessive said:
As MOC and LOM have said, soft shell eggs are not always a sign of not getting enough calcium. Your feed's label looks pretty complete with calcium and phosphorus, etc. and 16% protein. Infectious bronchitis in a flock, sometimes mild enough not to notice, can cause soft shell eggs and a variety of abnormal shells. Many hens prefer crushed egg shells fed back as treats rather than the oyster shell. New layers, old hens, and hens with injuries may lay soft shelled eggs. My best layer was attacked by a dog, and after several months of healing, she resumed laying daily, but all eggs for the last 18 months have been shell-less or very thin shelled, which are always broken by the time I get them.
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I have a small flock that was just two birds for about 3 years, this leghorn and another hen. I then got 4 chicks hoping to add to my flock, and 3 turned out to be roos and had to be re-homed, and so then my flock went down to 3. Then the alpha of my flock died, about two weeks ago, so now i'm back down to 2 birds, and the new pullet isn't that bonded to my leghorn yet, so of course there was a lot of change going on and she's probably stressed out and a bit confused still. So I guess it makes sense that her egg production has been odd. Thanks for the help :)
 

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