- Jul 15, 2013
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I have five Golden Biffs. About 2 or 3 years old. Still laying. Lately I have been getting one soft shelled egg from one chicken. It can be wrinkled on one end. How in the heck can you tell which chicken is laying the soft shell?I feed calcium and grit free choice in the coop.in containers made for the stuff.Iread that chickens know when they need the calcium and grit.Since the chickens are older. I can get from 1 to 3 to 4 to five eggs daily it just depends. I understand that. All the other chickens are laying beautiful eggs. With no problems. It's just one of them.. The are in a run. Because we have a bassett hound and a hawlk is close daily. The only treets they get reacently are pumpking and sunflowers. Plus when the grass is mowed the get the cut grass.. Just a little of that. That blows into the run. I did give them Tunafish once. They have NO worms or mites or bugs on their bodies as I have checked. It's just this one chicken that lays soft shells. How do I tell which one?. So how can I correct the issue? Would game bird feed help?. My layer feed has the right amount of protine in it for the age of my chickens. I have layer feed free choice in a 3 pound feeder. Fill it up half way and by nightfall they have all the feed on the coop floor. I use pine chips on the coop floor and in their beds. With the feed on they floor. I don't put feed in their feeder daily. I moniter their coop floor very closely and put feed in the feeder when needed.. Then we go through the process again.Would more tunafish and even yogurt help?I'm stumped as what to do