Jessica Kurrle
In the Brooder
- Jan 14, 2018
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hello all - I am new to Chicken raising and hope someone can help. We have 3 Rhode Island Red hybrids. They have a great life and get to free range quite a bit. We feed them commercial feed and treats of scratch, cabbage 1x per week, fruit, and some - but very few - table scraps. We have had a very cold snap here lately but the gorls have a heater in their roost. Recently we have been getting these weird soft eggs. Some will be broken in the coop or roost and some you find in the laying box. Normally we get 3-4 eggs per day from 3 girls but the days I find the soft ones, we get only two. In addition, one of the girls seems to have had a poop explosion all over her bum and it is sort of frozen on there. The other two look fine and her behavior remains unchanged. They all lay in the same 2 boxes so while I can’t prove that the two are related (diarrhea and soft eggs) I suspect that they are. They get plenty of light, the other eggs shells are not thin and they all eat the same thing. Has anybody ever seen this? Any ideas/suggestions? Might it be an illness?