Soft eggs

[CARS]

In one of my breeding pens I have a roo with 3 hens (A&M's). Every day I get one soft egg from this pen. It has been happening for almost a week now. They all appear to be eating and drinking fine the only change is the feed. Last week I changed feed mills but the only thing I noticed that is different from the last feed ration was that the new feed has 50#s of oyster shells blending into a half ton of layer feed. (which I thought was a great idea because I don't have any room for another feeder in the pens)

The egg looks fine inside. It just never formed a hard shell. But the membrane is thicker than a normal, hard egg shell.

What do ya think?

 

[nivtup]

She will get it together soon.

It is not unsual for a new layer to stutter start.


Good luck.

 

[CARS]

Actually these birds were hatched last Sept. (2008).

 

[monarc23]

I seen this a lot in my A & Ms and once they started (atleast mine) they didn't stop. I really wonder if this strain (of true A & Ms even if they aren't exactly 1lb in weight) seem to have poor laying abilities. No matter what I did I couldn't get their eggs to firm back up...most of the tiime there was no shell on them at all it was just a membrane. Then they started learning to eat the eggs

which is why I no longer have A & Ms they were too much frusteration for me lol! I hope your gal firms her eggies back up for ya!