Thank you. I appreciate it....its been quite a hectic time since May. I had started over May 2024 with 8 chickens. Previous I had sold what I had in November 2023. I cleaned the coop and stored everything. I let the ground settle and everything grew back. No sickness or anything, it was just a "I'm done with this." I needed a break. So it makes me think that the original 8 were sick when I got them...or something. Between mites, the various respiratory issues, vitamin deficiencies and now the lash egg. I had one 18wk old have a vitamin B deficiency which got him back to health and then a month or two later it happened again but I could never get his vitamin levels up. He passed. I currently have another hen with a vitamin D deficiency. She had just started laying and has no shells to her eggs. She's a Black Jersey Giant, but she's always seemed off...even when she looks up at me at random times it seems like she's curving her neck down off to the side and then looks up sideways. But looks normal any other time. I have 40 total (11 roos). We will see how this summer goes. Sadly, I am not sure the one with the lash egg nor the shelless egg will ever get better. If they don't they might be put on my cull list. And oddly, this is my 5-6 flock..maybe 7, I've lost count at this point. I have never dealt with this many issues and makes me wonder if something was wrong with the hatchery chicks I bought last year too. At one point I had close to 60, sold a bunch (before the sickness/respiratory stuff) and have lost about 6-7 or so to sickness/predators. Its crazy.
