Update on my wrinkled laying egg hen

[Farmer Kitty]

In Speckledhen's thread on Zane and Lorilie we discussed the eggs and what could be wrong. I had posted the following pic of an egg one of my girls (Larissa) had laid and been laying like it.

The update is that I had her (she had stopped laying) and Zoe who isn't laying in the adolesant pen. This last week one of them started laying. I found out tonight that it was Larissa! The eggs are really light almost white and have slight lining in them now instead of the wrinkles. I don't know if the time in the adolesent pen helped or what. I do know that I have another one (not sure who) that occassionally lays one. I had to put Larissa and Zoe back in with the other hens as I had adolesents arrive and needed the other pen. I'm going to start them on a handful of meat maker with their scratch and see if that helps!

 

[robinaggie]

Somewhere on this site is a link to a university manual on eggs and how they are made and what can go wrong and why. I can't find it. Is there anybody out there who knows what link I'm talking about? This will explain why your hens' eggs are shaped funny and what to do about it.

 

[speckledhen]

I had that link, too, and I was trying to find mine. Maybe you gave it to me, cant remember. Ill look again and see if I can find it.

 

[d.k]

*so--what's different about the other pen??

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I've seen the link and taken it. The only thing that could have applied was the cancer.

d.k.-nothing is different with the other pen really. It had a lot more grass due to it not having been in use before I put them in but, I give the girls grass in the other run.