Soft egg

[kt]

We just received our first egg! However, it was very soft. Any suggestions on why or what we can do to help?

 

[heyeddah]

Post what you are feeding your egg layer at this time.
and wait a few days to see if the next ones are soft or regular. It is my understanding through recent experience that it happens occasionally in the beginning.

 

[kt]

Thank you for the prompt reply. We are feeding laying mash and cracked corn.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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I would add some oyster shell to their food. Sometimes when they are just beginning to lay, you will get a soft egg, or a very tiny egg.

 

[PortageGirl]

Cracked corn should be pretty limited, really more of a treat... oyster shell can just be left in a pan/dish/bin as a free choice, they'll eat as much as they want-need. Odd how they do that I suppose, they just seem to know!

 

[SussexInSeattle]

Also, recycle their own egg shells and any store bought egg shells back to them to eat. I always break mine down to almost pebble size so that they won't ever look at a solid egg in the nest box as a treat and start pecking their own eggs for calcium.

 

[PortageGirl]

Bah! Those solid heavy roundish things in their nests aren't anything like rocky-rolly-thin-flaky things that wobble when you peck them that are mixed in with the kitchen scraps. I've never crushed em up except by accident.