thin shelled eggs

[chickie seal]

My Rhode Island Red has been laying very thin shelled eggs for some time now. They have free access to calcium. She eats well and otherwise seems healthy. Any suggestions? My other two chickens lay perfectly normal shelled eggs.

 

[chickie seal]

Forgot to mention that they are all 2 years old and she laid normal shells until the last several months.

 

[ChicKat]

Aging is one of the reasons that the shells will thin down.


Make sure that your hen gets a laying ration that is high in calcium...and until her shells are good again, cut the treats. Boost her calcium intake, yogurt, cheese, similar calcium rich foods mixed with the high calcium layers feed. Put apple cider vinegar in her water. 1-2 tablespoons of ACV per 1 gallon of water. You may try giving them vitamins---TSC has chicken vitamins - if you mix vit. with the water, alternate ACV days. I mixed a crushed vitamin D3 tablet into the yogurt and feed and that helped mine. You could also pulverize eggshells in the food processor and mix that into the feed that you put yogurt in.

Good luck with her.