- Nov 30, 2013
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My New Hampshire Red is about 6 years old. She's had thin shelled eggs for a few months, often cracked at the end, sometimes really broken. She doesn't want oyster shell but many days I feed it to her in peanut butter and that seems to help. Lately, when she hasn't had oyster shells (we ran out of pb and I got lazy) she had several days of eggs that were just a crushed mess in the nest box. Then yesterday I discovered that her underside is kind of a mess, red and raw looking. She's acting normally, pretty happy. What do you think the red and raw is about? Could it be related to sitting for a bit on her crushed egg? I did pick her up to look underneath (Iooks messy, little feather shafts I believe) but these are the photos I got, with her standing. Thanks for your ideas.