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DucksBySurprise
Chirping
Very good point. I was wondering the same thing. I'll have to at least back off on spoiling them...it's so hard not too with those sweet little faces!!This is an excerpt from an article (I don’t have full access to it):
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THE occurrence of blood spots in eggs of the domestic fowl has been considered generally to be caused by genetic and environmental factors. A suggestion that diet might be associated with the incidence of blood spots in chicken eggs was noted at this Station (Bearse and Miller, 1940) when in experiments on vitamin A requirements of laying hens, diets with a low level of this vitamin produced eggs with numerous small blood spots. The occurrence of increased blood spots was attributed to a possible vitamin K deficiency because of low levels of alfalfa in the rations fed.
Many nutritional factors have been studied to determine their effect on production of blood spots in eggs [Nalbandov and Card, 1944, 1947; Denton, 1947; Carver and Henderson, 1948; Sauter et al., 1952]. While some of these investigations showed a beneficial effect from grass range, dried cereal grass, and fresh cut and dehydrated alfalfa, . . .”
I would try just feeding strictly your Dumor Layer Feed and Oyster Shells. The excess oats and veggies could have more of an impact than we think! I am no nutritionists but it’s worth a shot I’d say