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[Scotty]

Hi Guys,

 

It's been a while since I last signed in... believe it or not things have been going wonderfully well.

 

But here's my question to you clever people.... Yesterday I had a massive tree chopped down in the back garden, lots of noise and men in wellies rushing all over the garden, so I picked up my 4 hens and brought them into the office with me, so we could escape the noise. - I must say ... after that experience Im never locking myself in a room with 4 chickens ever again, the amount of poo that I've had to wade through is unbelievable.

 

This morning as I went to collect the daily eggs, I found 2 normal eggs, 1 semi soft egg (kind of deflated) and the 4th was a perfectly formed but a tiny little egg. Could the egg quality have dropped because they were stressed or should I be looking for some other reason?

[landgirl]

From what I've read, that change/shock would easily be enough to affect egg formation for a day.

 

I had similar performance from my three after a bad thunderstorm one day. They will most probably be right back to normal with the following lot of eggs.

 

LG

[Egluntyne]

Stress can affect their laying, so I guess that is what has done it.