Shelless egg

[David 584]

Once in a while I find a shelless egg in my laying boxes. The rest of the egg is fine up to the membrane, and then no shell. I feed a standard SS layer pellet and forage on free range, and offer oyster shell and scratch grains. It's either a Wyandotte or RR, about 18mo old. I was thinking it was just defective hardware in one of my birds, but I'm putting it out there for discussion.

 

[oldrooster]

sounds like a calcium decency but if on layer feed and oyster shell is available then that kinda makes it look like there is a girl with plumbing problems, do you offer them grit? I am grasping at straws but perhaps she isn't eating or processing the OS so I'd look into getting some fine grit, as I said I am grasping at straws and am probably way off base but I figure it's worth a shot, because it's not expensive and at least it won't hurt them by any means.

 

[David 584]

Thanks. I haven't made grit available as I range them but I have a bag put back for new birds I'm brooding. I'll set it out and see if that changes anything. I don't as yet know which bird it is. That would make it a lot easier to measure success.