- Apr 17, 2009
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OK so everyone is in different parts of the country and having this problem. A spring thing??
I'm in Arizona where our summer actually begins next month so it's end of spring here with 80+ degrees during the day.
I only have 2 hens: an Ameracauna & a California White and both are about 1 1/2 y.o. My Ameracauna went through a typical molt this winter where she lost tons of feathers and stopped laying for about 2 months. She is gorgeous now and is laying perfect eggs almost every day.
The Cali White never molted and has been laying almost everyday since she began laying over a year ago. Now she is looking kind of scrawny (I would too after all that production without rest) and her egg shells are very thin compared to the other hen. In fact for 4 days in a row now I've found her eggs broken and perhaps eaten by one or both hens. Several weeks back I discovered an eaten egg so I put a plastic eggs in the nest box and that cured that.... till now ? Both hens get organic layer mash so I would think the feed isn't the problem. Do they molt any time or at certain seasonal times? And I wouldn't think that affects the shell thickness does it?
I'm clueless......
I'm in Arizona where our summer actually begins next month so it's end of spring here with 80+ degrees during the day.
I only have 2 hens: an Ameracauna & a California White and both are about 1 1/2 y.o. My Ameracauna went through a typical molt this winter where she lost tons of feathers and stopped laying for about 2 months. She is gorgeous now and is laying perfect eggs almost every day.
The Cali White never molted and has been laying almost everyday since she began laying over a year ago. Now she is looking kind of scrawny (I would too after all that production without rest) and her egg shells are very thin compared to the other hen. In fact for 4 days in a row now I've found her eggs broken and perhaps eaten by one or both hens. Several weeks back I discovered an eaten egg so I put a plastic eggs in the nest box and that cured that.... till now ? Both hens get organic layer mash so I would think the feed isn't the problem. Do they molt any time or at certain seasonal times? And I wouldn't think that affects the shell thickness does it?
I'm clueless......
