Pullet acting strange

[Chickmama672]

18 week old red sex link, started laying about a week ago. Her first egg was VERY soft. Have gotten a couple since then that I suspect were from her. Fast forward to today..let them out of the run when I got home and she was acting like she did the first evening she laid. Very quiet, still..not foraging, etc. She was like that for a couple hours. I put them back in the run a little while ago and she finally squeezed out another very soft egg..now here's the weird part..she's still acting like she does when she lays..very still and quiet and it looks, for lack of a better description, like shes having contractions. Could she be trying to lay another? Like maybe she had one backed up and didnt lay it before the next one started forming?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Sex links are notorious for releasing multiple ovum. Sometimes they end up as double yolk eggs, and sometimes as eggs without shells because they can't apply the shell to two eggs at the same time.

Eggs without shells can be harder to get out, and they can cause a prolapse in some, so keep an eye on her.

 

[Chickmama672]

Thank you! I'm watching her closely!

 

[Chickmama672]

Sex links are notorious for releasing multiple ovum. Sometimes they end up as double yolk eggs, and sometimes as eggs without shells because they can't apply the shell to two eggs at the same time.

Eggs without shells can be harder to get out, and they can cause a prolapse in some, so keep an eye on her.

She just dropped a complete yolk with a membrane around it about an hour after the soft shelled egg.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Hopefully she eventually gets regulated. Make sure you have oyster shells if she needs them.

 

[Kiki]

She just dropped a complete yolk with a membrane around it about an hour after the soft shelled egg.

What exactly do you feed your birds?

 

[Chickmama672]

Hopefully she eventually gets regulated. Make sure you have oyster shells if she needs them.

I do..they have oyster shell free choice in a separate container all the time

 

[Chickmama672]

What exactly do you feed your birds?

Nutrena All Flock 18-20% protein

 

[aart]

I do..they have oyster shell free choice in a separate container all the time

Is she eating them?
Can help to spread some out on the ground in the run, or even sprinkle a few pieces on top of the feed.

 

[Chickmama672]

Is she eating them?
Can help to spread some out on the ground in the run, or even sprinkle a few pieces on top of the feed.

Good idea..I will try that too.