Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[Sunshine]

I have offered to post this for a friend of my mums who has chickens.

 

Just lately her chickens have been laying what she describes as wrinkly, soft shelled eggs. She has had them for a few months now and their eggs started off fine/normal.

 

Is there anything that could be wrong with them?-I'm not sure if its all of them or only one.

 

Hopefully someone can come along with some advice that i can pass onto her.

 

Thank You

 

Emma

[Milly]

Are they moulting? One of mine has kept on laying eggs while moulting (the others have stopped altogether), but some of them have been soft shelled as it's obviously quite a lot of effort to grow new feathers and lay eggs.

 

One thing to try is adding extra calcium to their diet - oyster shells (the place that sells the feed will usually sell them) are a good source of calcium. Or some people bake and crush used egg shells, and feed them back to their hens.

 

There are quite a few threads on this topic from people who are more expert than I am, if you do a search (it's not an uncommon problem).

 

Milly

[Redwing]

Limestone powder is supposed to be good, you can get it from horse feed shops