Pullet started having egg formation and laying problems

[aart]

I did two things yesterday. I started them all on Rooster Booster and Annie, my little girl had a bath. It was very hot here and has been for a few days now. She is a bantam bluff ball, cochin X faverolle, so she gets very hot even when it is mild in temp. So during the bath I examined her vent and tail area. Everything looked and felt quite normal. No extra fat that I recall. Ill keep her on the Rooster Booster and add that last night was the first night in few that she did NOT pass the gooey mess.
Thanks for getting me thinking about some helpful changes.

What Rooster Booster product are you giving?
There are many.

The diet you described before is not good at all......just get them a regular layer ration or an 'all flock' type ration.



I like to feed a flock raiser/starter/grower/finisher type feed with 20% protein crumble full time to all ages and genders, as non-layers(chicks, males and molting birds) do not need the extra calcium that is in layer feed and chicks and molters can use the extra protein. Makes life much simpler to store and distribute one type of chow that everyone can eat. I do grind up the crumbles (in the blender) for the chicks for the first week or so.

The higher protein crumble also offsets the 8% protein scratch grains and other kitchen/garden scraps I like to offer. I adjust the amounts of other feeds to get the protein levels desired with varying situations.

Calcium should be available at all times for the layers, I use oyster shell mixed with rinsed, dried, crushed chicken egg shells in a separate container.

Animal protein (a freshly trapped mouse, mealworms, a little cheese - beware the salt content, meat scraps) is provided once in while and during molting and/or if I see any feather eating.

 

[Lobzi]

Im currently using their Poultry Booster granules that a grind fine.

 

[aart]

Im currently using their Poultry Booster granules that a grind fine.

And you added that to a basic feed ration?

 

[Lobzi]

For the others but with Annie she gets a special dosing of it. I disolved some in water and give it to her with a medicine dropper just to make sure she is getting some. She refused the water offering with Rooster Booster. Today is the first day Im noticing she is not eating much. I know she feels crappy.

 

[Lobzi]

Its been awhile (many days) of cooler weather. Yesterday Annie started laying again but the egg was without shell. Today she laid a normal, shelled egg. She has had a lot of extra nutrition since she stopped laying. I do think that the hot weather took a tole on her egg laying, not to mention she had laid an egg a day for about three weeks or maybe more since she began laying. Hopefully all is well with her reproduction not. In the meantime one of her many eggs hatched and I have the baby with me. He is not much bigger than a baby quail, cries a lot, wants to be held, and needs extra warmth compared to other chicks his age.Here is a picture of him (the dark one) next to a quail baby who is a few days younger.