Old healthy hen with pale comb and need help with hens laying soft egg shells. Chicken expert. I do

[lovechickens23]

Hi need help. From chicken expert. I had chicken long time. And never had to deal with health promblems. Now I do. Have a old healthy hen who has pale comb why??? And need help with got two hens that lay soft shell eggs I do leave out oyster shells and they do have food that has oyster shells in it which is Leanya food sorry cant spell it

 

[ChickNanny13]

How old are your hens?

 

[Eggcessive]

Older hens can have problems with soft or thin-shelled eggs, even if they get plenty of calcium. There may be an underlying problem with her shell gland. If there has ever been a mild case of infectious bronchitis in the flock, and sometimes it may be so mild you may not notice it, that can also cause problems with thin egg shells. My hens prefer crumbled egg shells to oyster shell which they tend to ignore. Hopefully, it is just something to do with their age. Sumi has a good article called, "Common Egg Quality Problems" that has a lot of good info about egg shells. You can Google it or do a search here on BYC.

 

[lovechickens23]

I do know allot about chickens but never had theses problem before... She five or six bit her sister hen comb is fine and her eggs.And my other old hen stop laying eggs and I got her at same age as other two. How come she stop laying while the other two can??

 

[lovechickens23]

What is it bronchitis? Never herd of shell gland

Older hens can have problems with soft or thin-shelled eggs, even if they get plenty of calcium. There may be an underlying problem with her shell gland. If there has ever been a mild case of infectious bronchitis in the flock, and sometimes it may be so mild you may not notice it, that can also cause problems with thin egg shells. My hens prefer crumbled egg shells to oyster shell which they tend to ignore. Hopefully, it is just something to do with their age. Sumi has a good article called, "Common Egg Quality Problems" that has a lot of good info about egg shells. You can Google it or do a search here on BYC.

 

[lovechickens23]

Ppl tell me scratch feed is bad dont belive it I all ways fed them that long time ago and never had problems with it. And had a hen lived up to ten years

Older hens can have problems with soft or thin-shelled eggs, even if they get plenty of calcium. There may be an underlying problem with her shell gland. If there has ever been a mild case of infectious bronchitis in the flock, and sometimes it may be so mild you may not notice it, that can also cause problems with thin egg shells. My hens prefer crumbled egg shells to oyster shell which they tend to ignore. Hopefully, it is just something to do with their age. Sumi has a good article called, "Common Egg Quality Problems" that has a lot of good info about egg shells. You can Google it or do a search here on BYC.

 

[micstrachan]

Bronchitis is a respiratory infection. Sometimes a flock can have it with very little symptoms, and it can affect their reproductive tract, especially the shell gland, I think. The shell gland is where the hen’s body creates a shell around the egg. This is by far the longest part of the egg producttion process. This yesr acouple of my pullets were sneezing for a coupke days with no other symptoms. Someone was laying eggs with very thin, fragile shells around the sane time. I wondred if a mild case of infectious bronchitis was hitting my flock at that time. They never required treatment and everyone seems healthy now.

 

[lovechickens23]

She healthy can old age cause pale skin? Her stool looks healthy. But my other brown hen got her same time as the pale skin one so there same age. But her skin looks find. And got old hen stop laying but she same age as my two other ones but she a easter egg layer.why she stop???

 

[lovechickens23]

And how do u deleat this thread? I notice when u make one at the buttom u mark the 7 days but I didnt mark it. Dont deleate yet just wandering

 

[lovechickens23]

Do u push unwatch thread I see